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    <p>I would HIGHLY avoid OpenGL, DirectX and other lower level APIs unless you are interested in the inner workings of such APIs. If you are just starting out there are a great number of game development libraries tools you should look into ...</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://unity3d.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Unity 3D</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.garagegames.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Torque</a></li> <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ca/xna/default.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">XNA</a></li> </ul> <p>Here are some book samplings on all three of these tools...</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/184719818X" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Unity Game Development Essentials</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dus-stripbooks-tree&amp;field-keywords=Torque&amp;x=0&amp;y=0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bunch of Torque Books on Amazon</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dus-stripbooks-tree&amp;field-keywords=xna&amp;x=0&amp;y=0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bunch of XNA Books on Amazon</a></li> </ul> <p>Unfortunately I can't comment specifically on any of these books as I have not read them but I have worked with all the frameworks I mentioned. Pursuing any of them will put you on the road you are interested in, which is learning about game development.</p> <p>Yes you should have a good grasp on linear algebra, physics, etc. I'm not sure of your education level but high school math should give you a grasp of most of what you need.</p> <p>There are tons of sites on game development with tutorials, discussions, etc. Gamedev.net is a great place to start looking as has already been mentioned. Start participating in their communites, asking questions, etc. Try out the various libraries I've mentioned and see if you find them difficult, easy, etc. One may suit you more than the others.</p>
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    1. CO+1 for XNA, its a great place to start
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    2. COOpenGL is high level of abstraction. I would suggest it because it is a wide used standard, highly portable and highly programmable.
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    3. COOpenGL is certainly widely used and portable but it is specifically a graphics api. That's it. If you want to learn about graphics programming I would suggest it as well but if you want to learn how to make a game there is no need to go down to the level of OpenGL. Almost every game engine will hide this from the developer providing a higher level graphics API that can work across multiple graphics libraries (Opengl, Direct x, etc.)
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