Here you will find much of the information I've amassed in my VB Game Programming career. Have a look at my links page if you're interested in seeing where I've been. If you notice any errors, please, inform me.

Game Related Physics

- Force and Velocity (Frictionless)
- Gravity
- Projectiles
- Starfields
- Time-Based Modeling
- Circular Motion
- Inverse Kinematics - by Thomas 'ThamasTah' van Dijk
- Linear Interpolation - by Thomas 'ThamasTah' van Dijk
- Skeletal Skinning - by Thomas 'ThamasTah' van Dijk
- Trigonometry - by Andy Owen
- Vector-Vertex Rotations - by W-Buffer

Collision Detection

- Basic Collision Detection - Rectangular and Circular
- Pixel Perfect Collision Detection
- Collisions Between Mixed Bounding Types - by Matt Worden

AI

- Basic Flocking
- Finite State Machines and Probability Distributions
- Seeking/Fleeing Algorithms
- Car Racing AI - By The Tyrant

DirectX - DirectDraw

- What is DirectX?
- Loading and Displaying a Bitmap
- Transparency
- Animation
- Zooming
- Loading Surfaces from Custom Binary Resource Files
- Special Effects
- Loading GIFs or JPGs to DDraw Surfaces - by W-Buffer

DirectX - DirectInput

- Keyboard
- Mouse Handling
- Advanced Mouse Handling - By Gary Beebe

DirectX - DirectSound

- DirectSound
- Mp3's and DirectSound - By Brian Clark
- Loading Buffers from Custom Binary Resource Files

- DirectDraw7 / Direct3D Hybrid Engine - By Matt Hafermann

DirectX - DirectPlay

- Introduction to DirectPlay
- Initialization
- Enumeration of Service Providers
- Initializing a Connection
- Starting/Joining a Game
- Creating a Player
- Commencing Gameplay
- In-Game Messaging
- Termination

DirectX8

- Using DirectDraw with DirectX8 - By MetalWarrior (aka Jeff Smith)
- DirectX Graphics - By Steven Blom
- DirectX Graphics, Part 2 - By Steven Blom
- Using DirectGraphics for 2D Graphics - By Matt Hafermann
- Drawing Large Surfaces in DirectX 8 - By MetalWarrior (aka Jeff Smith)