Game & Entertainment Technology

Starting your Research

Starting your Research

Encyclopedias, handbooks and subject specific dictionaries will help provide useful background information, as well as terms to use when searching the databases. For example:

Lecky-Thompson, G. W. (2009). Fundamentals of network game development. Australia; Boston, MA: Course Technology.	Sethi, M. (2009). Game programming for teens. Boston, MA: Course Technology.
Cheng, I. (2009). 3D online multimedia & games : Processing, transmission and visualization. Singapore; Nackensack, N.J.: World Scientific.	Ahearn, L. (2009). 3D game environments : Create professional 3D game worlds. Amsterda; Boston: Focal Press/Elsevier.

E-books on this topic can be accessed from ITPro.
A GOOGLE search can also help find background information and suggestions for more keywords.

Keywords & OPAC

Keywords & OPAC

Use OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) to find books, journal titles and audio-visual materials in the Library. When searching for information, you need to use keywords. See below for some suggestions.

Computer animation	Computer games — Design	Computer games -– Programming
Computer graphics	Computer networks	Computer programming
Game scripting	Imaging systems	Maya
Multimedia systems	Object-oriented programming	Real-time data processing
Three-dimensional display systems	Video games – Design

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Finding Articles Online

Finding Articles Online

The articles inside magazines, journals & periodicals are very useful sources of information. Articles are different from books because:

• they are much more up-to-date
• they are shorter (less to read!)
• they concentrate on topics or specific aspects of topics
• there are many articles being published all the time so you have more choice.

The library catalogue, OPAC, does NOT tell you what articles the Library has, only which journals or periodicals, so the easiest way to find articles is to use the online databases.

• Academic Search Premier

• Computer Source

• ProQuest Science Journals

• ScienceDirect Subject Collections

Newspaper Articles

Newspaper articles are also very useful sources of information, and can be found in the LexisNexis Academic and the Factiva databases.

• Factiva (Dow Jones)

• LexisNexis Academic

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Recommended Websites

Recommended Websites

Allegro - a game programming library for C/C++ developers that provides, free of charge, cross platform support and functions for graphics, sounds, player input and timers.

Amit’s Game Programming Information - from a layman who has made game programming into a hobby, this site contains all sorts of useful stuff like how to get started and what subjects you should study to turn your love of gaming into a career.

GameDev.net - for features, resources, forums, online chats and more to provide for all your game development needs. Set up an RSS feed to the very latest game development news.

Ultimate Game Programming - as stated by the site owner the goal of this website is to "help programmers quickly learn new information without having to go through the trails and errors themselves".

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