News / Community

• Devmaster – http://devmaster.net/
• Gamasutra – http://www.gamasutra.com/
• Gamedev.net – http://www.gamedev.net/
• Game Developer Magazine – http://www.gdmag.com/
• Intel Visual Computing – http://software.intel.com/en-us/visual-computing/

Game Engine / Libraries (open-source)

2D engine (multi-platform inc. Mobile OS)

• cocos2d – http://cocos2d.org/
• Ethanon Engine – http://www.asantee.net/ethanon/

3D engine (multi-platform inc. Mobile OS)

• GameKit – http://code.google.com/p/gamekit/
• Gameplay – http://www.gameplay3d.org/
• Proton SDK – http://www.rtsoft.com/wiki/doku.php?id=proton

3D engine (multi-platform)

• BlendELF – http://blendelf.com/
• Cafu – http://www.cafu.de/
• Catcake – http://code.google.com/p/catcake/
• Crystal Space – http://www.crystalspace3d.org/
• Horde3D – http://www.horde3d.org/
• Irrlicht – http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/
• Linderdaum – http://www.linderdaum.com/
• Maratis – http://www.maratis3d.org/
• http://code.google.com/p/nebuladevice3/
• http://www.ogre3d.org/
• http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg
• http://www.panda3d.org/
• http://www.pixellight.org/
• https://github.com/GarageGames/Torque3D/
• http://hge.relishgames.com/

Blogs

• https://technology.riotgames.com/
• http://labs.gree.jp/blog/
• http://code.zynga.com/
• https://blogs.unity3d.com/

Game development companies public repo.

• [GitHub] Blizzard Entertainment – https://github.com/blizzard/
• [GitHub] Devsisters – https://github.com/devsisters/
• [GitHub] Zynga – https://github.com/zynga/

Misc.

• Study Path for Game Programmer – https://github.com/miloyip/game-programmer
• GDCVault – https://www.gdcvault.com/

Basic

• The 10K problem – http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html

Libraries

• libevent – http://libevent.org/
• libev – http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html
• libuv – http://libuv.org/

References

• Lugdunum (edonkey server) – http://lugdunum.shortypower.org/kiten.html
• A Million-user Comet Application with Mochiweb – http://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-application-with-mochiweb-part-1
• 600k concurrent websocket connection on AWS using node.js – https://blog.jayway.com/2015/04/13/600k-concurrent-websocket-connections-on-aws-using-node-js/
• [Hacker News Discussion] 600k concurrent… – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21222913

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

Home

• Introducing JSON – http://www.json.org/
• JSON-RPC – http://json-rpc.org/

C/C++

• CAJUN – http://sourceforge.net/projects/cajun-jsonapi/
• cjson – http://sourceforge.net/projects/cjson/
• CSON – http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/cson/index.cgi/index
• JsonCpp – http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/
• Jost (need boost) – http://ddsbench.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ddsbench/trunk/jost/
• libjson – http://sourceforge.net/projects/libjson/
• M’s JSON parser – http://sourceforge.net/projects/mjson/
• nosjob – http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/nosjob/index.cgi/index
• YAJL (Yet Another JSON Library) – http://lloyd.github.com/yajl/

Binary-format alternatives

• VelocyPack (VPack) (supports key compression) – https://github.com/arangodb/velocypack
• MessagePack (msgpack) – https://msgpack.org/

Network Library

• RakNet – http://www.jenkinssoftware.com/
• Valve GameNetworkingSockets – https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets
• ENet (Reliable UDP networking library) – http://enet.bespin.org/
• UDT (UDP-based Data Transfer) – http://udt.sourceforge.net/

LEDBAT (Low Extra Delay Background Transport)

• uTP – http://www.utorrent.com/documentation/utp
• IETF LEDBAT Status Page – http://tools.ietf.org/wg/ledbat/
• libutp – https://github.com/bittorrent/libutp

RFC

• RFC 5128 (State of P2P Communication across NATs) – http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5128
• RFC 2663 (IP Network Address Translator (NAT) Terminology and Considerations) – http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2663
• RFC 4787 (Network Address Translation (NAT) Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP) – http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4787
• RFC 3022 (Traditional IP Network Address Translator (Traditional NAT)) – http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3022

UPnP

• UPnP Specifications – http://upnp.org/sdcps-and-certification/standards/
• [Intel] Developer Tools for UPnP – http://opentools.homeip.net/dev-tools-for-upnp
• [MSDN] UPnP APIs – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa382303(VS.85).aspx
• MiniUPnP library – http://miniupnp.tuxfamily.org/
• libnatpmp library – http://miniupnp.tuxfamily.org/libnatpmp.html

Misc.

• [MSDN] ICS(Internet Connection Sharing) / ICF(Internet Connection Firewall) – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364733(v=VS.85).aspx
• Peer-to-peer communication across Network Address Translators – http://www.brynosaurus.com/pub/net/p2pnat.pdf

Microsoft Windows

• MSDN: Programming Guide for 64-bit Windows – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb427430(VS.85).aspx
• Getting Ready for 64-bit Windows – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384198(VS.85).aspx
• Designing 64-bit-Compatiable Interfaces – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384167(VS.85).aspx
• MSDN: 64-bit programming for Game Developers – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb147385.aspx
• MSDN: Introduction to Developing Applications for the 64-bit Itanium-based Version of Windows – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms952405.aspx
• MSDN: 64-Bit Programming with Visual C++ – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h2k70f3s.aspx
• Best Practices for WOW64 – http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/64bit/WoW64_bestprac.mspx
• Accessing 32-bit DLLs from 64-bit code – http://dnjonline.com/article.aspx?ID=jun07_access3264
• 64-Bit Programming with Visual C++ – http://blogs.msdn.com/brunoterkaly/archive/2009/01/12/64-bit-programming-with-visual-c.aspx
• FAQ for Development on 64-bit Windows – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/isv/bb190527.aspx