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lawnonJuly 29, 2021

I really loved Game Programming Patterns and I'll definitely need to check this out too.

The way you made your book(s), from making them available online for free to the excellent layout of the printed version, was a huge inspiration for me to write my own book. Thank you.

donquichotteonAug 5, 2021

I bought Robert's book "Game Programming Patterns", and although it is a bit OOP-heavy for my taste, I have enjoyed it and the illustrations are excellent.

Also, cool to see him pull a Knuth and writing his own typesetting and build system for the book!

munificentonJuly 19, 2021

And Game Programming Patterns, which has a chapter on the performance effects of contiguous data:

https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/data-locality.html

stirfishonJuly 20, 2021

Game Programming Patterns is one of my favorite books btw

rednabonJuly 29, 2021

That's going to look awesome next to my copy of Game Programming Patterns! ... What do you mean "Temporarily Out Of Stock", amazon.co.uk!?

panzaglonJuly 18, 2021

Every time someone posts a book on here someone shows up to bitch about the format and modernization- you should see the crap the 'Game Programming Patterns' guy gets.

wly_cdgronJuly 19, 2021

You should have just said "Look guys, trust me, I am going to write Game Programming Patterns one day"

coldteaonApr 26, 2021

>that was written by someone who probably, ironically, hasn't read all of those actually-seminal papers is more than a bit frustrating.

For completeness and curiosity maybe. Otherwise one doesn't have to read the "actually-seminal papers" if they already know the concepts from the 40 to 20+ years that followed.

Do physicists need to read the original Einstein or Maxwell if they had read tomes of subsequent course and academic books on the subject, plus modern papers for the later developments?

In any case, I'm pretty sure the author of that post [1] had read at least the CSP papers -- he works on the Dart language team, and has written Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters, both quite popular books, which have been discussed (as in first page) more than 3-4 times in HN in the past years.

[1] https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-....