Yasser Jaffal - A Practical Introduction To 3D Game Development

This book is a practical introduction to programming 2D and 3D games, techniques used in programming these games, and how to benefit from these techniques. It illustrates a large number of mechanics used in video games and shows by example how to program these mechanics and combine them to achieve the desired behavior. It illustrates also how to put the player into control and deal with interactions between player and various game elements.

The book focuses on programming as one of the important fields regarding video game development. However, game development is a huge world with tons of arts and skills to learn. The book has also exercises that allow you to evaluate your understanding of the covered topics. Each one of these exercises
has a new idea that is not previously discussed, and challenges you to program your own variations of the examples.