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Two decent ones for game development:

https://howtomakeanrpg.com/

Walks through building a JRPG-style game with Lua. Pretty impressive for the price, especially with all the royalty-free assets that are included.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Programming_an_RTS_Game...

A little dated now, (although DirectX 9 isn't quite dead yet), but this one has some pretty interesting topics. Good chapter on procedural terrain generation, some basic pathfinding, minimaps and fog-of-war.



Thanks for sharing! I'm just getting into games and these look really helpful.


Lua and RPGs? Bookmarked!




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