Level Up 2009 - Resources

Welcome to our guide of game development resources that we think are particularly relevant for Intel Visual Adrenaline Game Demo Challenge participants. We've organized the links by topic showing resources on game development in general and specific resources for our contest categories.  If you have a specific question about the contest, please post it in our Level Up 2009 discussion forum.

• Level Up 2009 Discussion Forum
  Discuss the contest with your peers and Intel engineers. Share ideas and get your questions answered.
• Intel at Game Developers Conference 2009
  Find more information about the technical sessions that Intel delivered at the 2008 and 2009 Game Developers Conferences.
• Intel Software Network Take Five Videos
  Search our video library and find a session or instructional video that can help you code your game.
• Open Source Game Development
  This article steps through the process of adding threading to the Open Source OGRE3D game engine.
• XNA Game Sample Application
  Learn how to create a threaded game with XNA.
• Half Life 2 Demo with Intel® Laptop Gaming TDK Video
  Demonstration of the Intel Laptop Gaming Technical Development Kit used to create a mod to show battery and network status on the user interface for Half Life 2.
• Intel Software Network Blogs - Game Development Category
  Our blogs have insight into Intel's efforts to support and promote PC game development.  Make sure to let our bloggers know what you think!

• Parallel Programming and Multi-Core Community
  Get resources to help you most effectively develop your game for multi-core environments.
• Threading Basics for Gaming
  This paper shows how you can use OpenMP to add threading to your game.
• Threaded Cross-Platform Game Development
  Develop games with multiple threads using a simple implementation of a thread pool.
• Intel® Threading Analysis Tools
  This page has details on and tutorials for Intel® Thread Profiler, Intel® Thread Checker, and Intel® Threading Building Blocks.
• "Smoke" Demo
  Smoke is a popular Intel technical demo that showcases a framework to support n-way threading of gaming technologies.

• Intel® Mobile Developer Community
  The Mobile developer community website is packed with resources for developing your game on a mobile platform.
• Mobile Games Developer Guide
  The Mobile Games Developer Guide is your first stop for mobile development information
• Intel® Laptop Gaming Technology Development Kit
  This free library, including source, can greatly simplify the process of adding laptop-friendly features to your game demo.
• Intel® Mobile Platform Software Development Kit*
  Quickly produce efficient, reliable, and adaptive software that users demand in mobile computing environments.
• Half Life 2 Demo with Intel® Laptop Gaming TDK
  Demonstration of the Intel Laptop Gaming Technical Development Kit used to create a mod to show battery and network status on the user interface for Half Life 2.

• Intel Visual Computing Community
  Check our all of our resouces and sample code in the Intel Visual Computing community.
• Quick Reference Guide to Intel Integrated Graphics
• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) Developer's Guide

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