Resources for game and engine dev I've found while building Eden

techgeek1-links.md

Techgeek1's Links

General Topics

General computer science topics applicable to any subdomain.

Algorithms

• Radix Sort Revisited

Data Structures

• The Slot Map Data Structure
• Cache Efficient Grids & Quadtrees
• 1024 Cores (concurrent algorithms and lock-free data structures)
• Roaring Bitmaps
• Dragon-Space: Cache Efficien Grids and Trees

Architecture

• Data-Oriented Design
• OOP Is Dead, Long Live Data-oriented Design
• Data-Oriented Design and C++
• An Investigation of Data Storate in Entity-Component Systems

Hardware

• What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
• What every systems programmer should know about concurrency

IO

• Virtual File System
• Pak Files
• Quite OK Image Format

Mathematics

• EuclidianSpace
• A Primer On Bezier Curvers
• Understanding Quaternions
• Quaternions and 3d rotation, explained interactively
• Visualizing quaternions (4d numbers) with stereographic projection
• 2D Transformation
• Row Major vs Column Major, storage/convention
• SDF Geometry

Subdomains

Resources for specialized subdomains in in game dev.

AI

• Game AI Pro

Audio

• C++ Game Audio Engine - Part 1
• C++ Game Audio Engine - Part 2
• C++ Game Audio Engine - Part 3
• C++ Game Audio Engine - Part 4
• Component-Based Software Architecture for Real-Time Audio
• Using locks in real-time audio processing, safely

Engines

• Game Engine Architecture

GUI

• So you want to write a GUI framework
• Designing a GUI Framework
• GUIs on the GPU

Networking

• Gaffer on Games
• ITHare on Software - Network Programming

Physics

• Real-Time Collision Detection
• Bepu Physics

Rendering

• Real-Time Rendering 4th Edition
• Render Engine Development (link list)
• Order your graphics draw calls around!
• Latency Mitigation Strategies (by John Carmack)
• Graphics Studies Compilation
• Engines
  • The Machinery
    • A modern rendering architecture
    • High-Level Rendering Using Render Graphs
    • Simple Parallel Rendering
    • Explicit Multi-GPU Programming
    • The Machinery Shader System (part 1)
    • The Machinery Shader System (part 2)
    • The Machinery Shader System (part 3)
    • Vulkan: Descriptor Sets Management
    • Vulkan: Command Buffer Management
    • Vulkan: Pipelines and Render States
    • Moving The Machinery to Bindless
    • Vertex Assembly and Skinning
  • Stingray Renderer
    • 1. Overview
    • 2. Resources & Resource Contexts
    • 3. Render Contexts
    • 4. Sorting
    • 5. RenderDevice
    • 6. RenderInterface
    • 7. Data-driven rendering
    • 8. Stingray-renderer & Mini-renderer
  • Molecule Engine
    • Stateless, layered, multi-threaded rendering – Part 1
    • Stateless, layered, multi-threaded rendering – Part 2: Stateless API Design
    • Stateless, layered, multi-threaded rendering – Part 3: API Design Details
    • Stateless, layered, multi-threaded rendering – Part 4: Memory Management & Synchronization
  • Destiny
    • Destiny’s Multi-threaded Renderer Architecture
    • Destiny’s Multi-threaded Renderer Architecture: Video
    • Destiny Shader Pipeline
  • Dilligent Engine
    • Designing A Modern Cross-Platform Graphics Library
    • Unified Resource State Management for Vulkan and Direct3D12
  • EA SEED's Halcyon
  • Wicked Engine
• Performance
  • RDNA2 Performance Guid
• APIs
  • Vulkan
    • Vulkan Tutorial
    • Vulkan Guide
    • Vulkan 1.1 Quick Reference
    • Vulkan 1.2 Spec (chunked)
    • Intel - Api Without Secrets: Introduction To Vulkan
      • Part 1: The Beginning
      • Part 2: Swap Chain
      • Part 3: First Triangle
      • Part 4: Vertex Attributes
      • Part 5: Staging Resources
      • Part 6: Descriptor Sets
      • Part 7: Uniform Buffers
    • Tutorial on using Vulkan's VK_EXT_debug_marker with RenderDoc
    • Writing an efficient Vulkan renderer
    • Robust pipeline cache serialization
    • Vulkan Sparse Binding

Shaders

• The Best Darn Grid Shader (Yet)

Tools

Misc tools I've found in my travels.

Debuggers

• WinDbg
• RenderDoc

Profilers

• Optick: C++ Profiler For Games
• MTuner
• VTune
• uProf

Sanitizers

• Valgrind
• Application Verifier (valgrind for windows)

Languages

Resources for specific programming languages.

Rust

• Fast Rust Builds
• Bevy Fast Build Config

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Blogs

Blogs with good articles worth reading.

• Dan Luu
• Daniel Lemire (algorithms and performance)