# Lost Garden
# Blobs in Games
# Wolfire Games Blog
# Yuan Works Development
# Elder Game
# The Chronicles of Doryen

More Blogs:

1. Christer Ericson’s blog
2. AI Game Dev
3. Wolfgang Engel’s blog
4. Molly Rocket Blog
5. Gaffer on Games blog
6. Humus (Graphics Blog) ( )
7. Realtime Rendering blog

2D Game development 

There are plenty of 2D game development tools like HGE, Game maker, but very few books are dedicated for such resources.

1) Character Emotion in 2D and 3D Animation

by Pardew

2) Advanced 2D Game Development

by Jonathan S. Harbour

Physics & Maths 

Understanding of physics & maths is very necessary, as it solves lot of your game development related problems. 

1) Game Physics

by David H. Eberly

2) Mathematics and Physics for Programmers

by Danny Kodicek

3) Mathematics for Computer Graphics Applications

by Michael E. Mortenson

Audio & Sound

Usage of audio adds liveliness in the video game. So understanding how sound works, how to work with it and where to use it effectively is a skill.

1) Fundamentals of Audio and Video Programming for Games

by Mike Wasson, Peter Turcan

2) A Programmer’s Guide to Sound

by Tim Kientzle

C++

C++ is by far most widely used programming language for game development. There are plenty of tutorials and books for C++. Try some of these books.

1) Object-Oriented Programming in C++, 4th ed.

by Robert Lafore

2) Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example

by Andrew Koenig, Barbara E. Moo

Java 

Java is very popular in game development as it is crossplatform. and it is available on portable devices as well in JME edition. So there are large number of developers using java as their development tool.

1) Java Me Game Programming

by Martin J. Wells, John P. Flynt

2) Developing Games in Java

by David Brackeen

Artificial Intelligence

There are very few books which are informative and readable, as most of the books are too theoretical.

These two books are good starting point for Game AI.

1) AI Game Engine Programming

by Brian Schwab

2) Programming Game AI by Example

by Mat Buckland

DirectX

For those who are solely developing games for windows using directx. These books are excellent starters.

1) Isometric Game Programming with DirectX 7.0

by Ernest Pazera

2) Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9

by Frank D. Luna

3) Real-Time 3D Terrain Engines Using C++ and DirectX 9

by Greg Snook

4) Shaderx2: Shader Programming Tips & Tricks With Directx 9

by Wolfgang F. Engel

OpenGL

OpenGL is powerful yet easy to understand. So you can use it with C++ /Java as well. Take a look at some of these books.

1) Beginning OpenGL Game Programming

by Dave Astle, Kevin Hawkins

2) OpenGL SuperBible, 3rd Ed.

by Richard S Wright, Benjamin Lipchak

3) OpenGL ES Game Development

by Dave Astle, Dave Durnil

There are many other books that can be added in the list:

- Code Complete, 2nd Ed.

by Steve McConnell

- Game Testing All in One

by Charles P. Schultz

- Developer’s Guide to Multiplayer Games

by Andrew Mulholland, Teijo Hakala

I’ll update this page with more books and category as time goes on. If you think any book that needs mention here in any category then please feel free to name it in comments.