Game programming resources

For more info about game programming on Windows, check out the following resources.

Game programming reference

• Graphics and Gaming
• OpenGL reference

Game design guidance

• Index of UX guidelines for UWP apps

Blogs

• Games for Windows and the DirectX SDK
• DirectX Developer Blog
• Shawn Hargreaves Blog (XNA game info).

Toolkits

• DirectX Tool Kit
• DirectXTex texture processing library
• Microsoft Visual StudioGraphics Diagnostics
• Win2D - An easy-to-use Windows Runtime API for immediate mode 2D graphics rendering with GPU acceleration.
• ANGLE for Microsoft Store - Runs OpenGL ES content on Windows by translating OpenGL ES API calls to DirectX 11 API calls.

Other resources

• CodePlex
• GameDev.net