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NathanKP · 2015-04-02 · Original thread
Sorry should have thought to include a link:

http://www.amazon.com/Real-Time-Strategy-Programming-Wordwar...

Most of the technical stuff about Direct X is obviously hopelessly outdated now, but it was pretty cool stuff back in 2000 or so when teenage me wanted to learn coding by playing around writing games. :P

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