Jeff On Games

I was at Northeastern last night talking with programming students about getting into the game industry.  As with most students, they were very curious about what, specifically, they should learn in order to make it easier for them to get into the game industry, and where they should learn it.  I gave some standard advice (which I'll probably write up a blog post about at some point, maybe?) but I realized that one way to find really good places to learn is through the blogrolls and recommendations of talented developers.

And then I realized I haven't updated my blogroll, probably in a year at least.  So, I've updated it this morning, fixing links to places like t-machine, removing some long dead blogs, and making a few additions.  Some recent additions:

• Games From Within: Noel is now an iPhone developer, but his development methodologies are really what I look at in his blog.  He updates fairly frequently and his articles are almost always good.
• Bitsquid: I'm not sure really what Bitsquid is working on, but their programming posts are fantastic.
• Insomniac R&D: Awesome posts from Insomniac devs
• #AltDevBlogADay: There is so much awesome in this (basically aggregate) feed that I often I can't keep up with it.
• Brett's Footnotes: Brett is a lead programmer at Bethesda Game Studios, but wasn't there when I was.  He's awesome and his posts are always interesting.

I will do my best to keep my blogroll up to date from now on, though I can't make any promises.