Preface
It wasn’t long ago that the knowledge necessary to program commercial video games was only available to a small number of game industry veterans. In that bygone era, learning about the actual algorithms that were used in AAA games was akin to learning some dark and forbidden knowledge (hence titles such as Michael Abrash’s seminal Graphics Programming Black Book). If one wanted to pursue a formal education in game programming, the choices were more or less limited to a handful of specialized trade schools. But over the past ten years, video game education has changed dramatically. Several top universities now offer courses and degrees in video game programming, and more join the ranks every single year.
A side effect of this explosion ...
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