Whether you are new to making games or you are a veteran, you may find it useful to have a look at a listing of the most common topics related to making games. The goal is to give you a guide of what you can learn next whether you want to start from the beginning, further your specialization, or explore an unfamiliar specialization of making games. Have you heard about HTN? or wondering what's an RPC? maybe you forgot what's IK? we will give a short description of every term we can fit in this session.

1. Contents of
Makings Games
If making games was a book.

2. ABOUT ME
Games Development Lecturer
Head of Department
SAE Institute
And I love Assassins’ Creed

3. What to Expect
● Want to learn something new in game development?
● A mind map of many topics with a description for each.
● It’s shallow by design
● And I will recommend some books for you!

4. Game Design

5. Game Design: Story telling
● The 3 Act Structure: Setup, Confrontation, Resolution
● Hero’s journey
● Character Arcs
● The 7 basic plots:
○ The Quest
○ Overcoming the Monster

6. Game Design: Statistics
● Probability
● Game theory
○ Rock, Paper, Scissors
○ Matching Pennies

7. Game Design: The Process
● Level Design
● GDD
● LDD
● RLD and RGD
● UX
● Game Economy
● Balancing
● MDA
○ Mechanics
○ Dynamics
○ Aesthatics

8. Book Recommendation
● Art of Game Design
● Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences

9. Game Programming

10. Game Programming: Mathematics
● Vectors and Vector Mathematics
● Quaternions
● Mattrices
● Transformations : Rotations, Translation and Scaling
● Linear and Spherical Interpolation
● Splines: Catmull Rom and Bezier
● Geometry
○ Intersection between 2 lines
○ Intersections between lines and triangles
● Ray tracing

11. Game Programming: Rigid body Physics
● Forces
● Torques
● Newton Laws of Movement
● Numerical Integration
○ Euler Method
○ Runga Kutta and Verlet
● Collision Detection
● Collisions Response

12. Book Recommendation
● Mathematics for 3d Game Programming
● Essential mathematics for games

13. Game Programming: AI
● Steering Behaviours and Crowd Simulation
○ Flocking system
○ Collision Avoidance
○ Pursuit and Evade
● Path Finding:
○ Navigation Mesh and Graph Data Structure
○ A*, JSP+. Theta*
● Decisions Making:
○ State Machines
○ Utility System
○ Rule Based System
○ BT
○ HTN
○ GOAP
● Machines Learning Algorithms
○ Neural Networks
○ Genetic Algorithms

14. Book Recommendation
● AI Pro series
● AI for games

15. Game Programming: Software Engineering
● Clean Code
● SOLID principles
● Design Patterns
● UML and Class Diagrams
● TDD
● Quality attributes:
○ Reusability
○ Scalability
○ Testability

16. Book Recommendation
● Clean Code,
● Clean Architecture

17. ● Shaders
● UV Mapping
● Lighting
○ Forward rendering
○ Deferred Rendering
○ Rendering Equation:
■ Blinn
■ Phong
■ Cook Torrance
■ PBR
■ BRDF functions
● Volumetric Effects
● Projections
● Shadows
● Culling
Graphics Programming

18. Book Recommendation
● Real-time rendering

19. Game Programming: Multiplayer games
● Server Side Programming
● Databases
○ Relational
○ NoSQL
● Network Programming
○ TCP Packets
○ UDP Packets
○ RPC
○ Turn Based or Real Time
○ Latency Handling:
■ Prediction
■ Interpolation
● Game Networking Service
○ Matchmaking
○ Lobbies

20. Book Recommendation
● Multiplayer Game Programming.

21. Assets Creation
● 3d Modeling
● Textures
○ Diffuse Maps
○ Normal Maps
● Animation
○ Skinning
○ Rigging
○ IK
○ FK
○ 12 Animation Principles
■ Follow through
■ Anticipation
■ Slow in Slow out
● UI, HUD
○ Vector graphics
○ Raster Graphics
● Realtime VFX
● Audio, Music and SFX

22. Have any more topics I can
add to the list?
Don’t hesitate to leave them in the comments! 

23. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!
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