The goal of the wiki is to cover a wide range of topics related to game development.
When building a game engine from scratch, there are several valid approaches and there is no perfect way of doing things.
For a given topic, multiple strategies will be covered with their advantages and pitfalls.
The advantage of building a wiki instead of a blog is that the information can be better organized, and improved over time.
A retrospective on the different versions of DirectX.
☢️DirectX
A review of the different implementations of SIMD.
🔢SIMD
An overview of the architecture of a computer system and its fundamental components.
A review of the CPU’s cache memory, and best practices.
To debug programs compiled for an Intel x86 architecture, some fundamental knowledge of the processor and its instructions is necessary.
Every programming language provides fundamental data types.
The code translation process that includes the compilation and linking of source code to a binary executable.
The storage of a program’s executable on different plaforms.
A program uses a portion of heap memory known as the stack.
C++ does not support Bit Flags as a fundamental type. There are different methods to implement this functionality.
There are different methods to handle errors in C++.
C++ and best practices.
Fundamental information on C# and best practices.
🌀C#
Information on the internals of .NET.
A review of best practices that are mostly platform-independent.
An overview of multithreading and platform-dependent functionalities.
A review of build systems and build tools.
CMake is one of the most popular open-source cross-platform build toolset, and it can be used for game development with a minimal set up.
Introduction to COM. Useful when working with COM libraries such as DirectX and WinRT.
A review of SIMD on different platforms, and best practices on their usage.
🔢SIMD
A review if the different kind of memory, and the best practices for writing efficient programs.
A review of different allocation strategies and their use in a game engine.
An overview of the fundamental container types and their usage.
Different strategies to implement a reflection system in C++.
Different strategies to serialize and deserialize data in C++.
The principles of trigonometry that are necessary for graphics programming.
Introduction to the Graphics Pipeline and the different stages.
Introduction to a Material System.
Gamma correction and linear workspace.
Overview on texture techniques.
Introduction to Shader programming.
Overview on Lighting models.
An overview of the recommended project configurations for a game engine.
Strategies to provide a platform abstraction for the low-level functionality of the engine.
Overview of platform-independant and platform-spefic features for the low-level functionality of the engine.
Review of platform-dependent Timing functionalities.
⏰Time
Best practices on implementing loading and saving in a game engine.
Review of Object Models for games.
A review of popular version control systems, and how they can be integrated into a game pipeline.
An overview of an asset pipeline for games.
An introduction to WebGL.
An introduction to programming for macOS.
An introduction to Metal for macOS and iOS.
Overview and tutorials on the Windows platforms and the APIs that are required in a game engine.
Tutorials on HLSL.
✨HLSL
Set up of the Engine from GitHub.
Overview of the Unreal Engine 4: terminology, build system, code generation.
Architecture of the Unreal Engine 4: source code, object system, containers, macros.
Review of some systems: Memory, LLM, Console and CVars.
Review of different ways to perform multithreaded work: Async Tasks, Runnable, Tasks Pool.
Review of different ways to load assets on demand and asynchronously at runtime.
Usage of delegates and lambas.