Design Patterns for Games

This is the most highly recommended book on game programming. Mostly because it is AFAIK the only end-to-end book that's written by a professional game developer (most are written by hobbyists and accademics when you look at their bios). Of course all the code examples are in C++.

I did a university module on programming games in C++ and this was the textbook. I'd say it's aiming a fair bit lower than Game Engine Architecture in terms of programming ability (it was only a second year subject). Amazon offers them both in a bundle deal.

@rhm:

Yeah seconding this book, it's pretty essential.  The "Game Programming Gems" series is also good and written by actual people in the industry (Nintendo, etc). Even the older volumes have good info.  It's not so much architecture and methodology, but more a collection of lots of useful patterns and algorithms and stuff.

There is a great thesis that I can refer too.

 Title: Design patterns in game architecture, evaluation in a case study.

http://opac.libis.be/F/KKA6VJFINGQFDB5LE3NLHCQ3A5EV3TKJLY7SECX975LC11B2G9-02473?func=full-set-set&set_number=122460&set_entry=000001&format

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