Game Engine Architecture, Third Edition

Game Engine Architecture covers both the theory and practice of game engine software development, bringing together complete coverage of a wide range of topics. The concepts and techniques described are the actual ones used by real game studios like Electronic Arts and Naughty Dog. The examples are often grounded in specific technologies, but the discussion extends way beyond any particular engine or API. The references and citations provided in this book make it a great jumping off point for those who wish to dig deeper into any particular aspect of the game development process.

This book is intended to serve as the course text for a college level series in game programming. It can also be used by amateur software engineers, hobbyists, self-taught game programmers and existing members of the game industry alike. Junior game engineers can use this text to solidify their understanding of game technology and engine architecture. Even senior engineers who specialize in one particular field of game development can benefit from the bigger picture presented in these pages.

This new and improved third edition offers the same comprehensive coverage of game engine architecture provided by previous editions, along with updated coverage of:

computer and CPU hardware and memory caches, compiler optimizations, C++ language standardization, the IEEE-754 floating-point representation, 2D user interfaces, plus an entirely new chapter on hardware parallelism and concurrent programming. This edition also provides some new insights into the making of Naughty Dog's The Last of Us Remastered™, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End™ and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy™. It also repairs all of the errata that you, my devoted readers, found in the first and second editions.

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