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Re:How Dwarf Fortress is built by Agentlien on Friday July 30, 2021 @01:49AM (#28004866)
My father got me that book when I was getting more seriously into game programing and it's an absolutely wonderful tome. It has a lot of very good points about not just programming but also game design and how to achieve interesting and seemingly intelligent NPC behavior with a few simple tricks.

Parts of it may be a bit dated now, though.

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Re:How Dwarf Fortress is built by wernsey on Friday July 30, 2021 @07:11AM (#28006705)
My parents also got me that book as a teenager. I learned C from that book: I knew Pascal which we were taught at school and once I realised that you just substituted BEGIN and END with { and } it was easy to learn the other aspect.

I really regret that I don't have it any more for the sentimental value it held.

I see archive.org has it in their library [0], though it is is marked as "not for borrow"

[0] https://archive.org/details/teachyourselfgam00lamo

EDIT: Doh, I recogonised the author's name, but I'm thinking of a different book: "Teach yourself game-programming in 21 days"

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Re:How Dwarf Fortress is built by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday July 30, 2021 @07:24AM (#28006773)
LaMothe wrote a lot of game dev books.
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