Books

• Game Programming Gems 1-6, Charles River Media
• Special Effects Game Programming with DirectX, Lamothe and McKuskey
• Managed DirectX 9 Kick Start: Graphics and Game Programming, Tom Miller
• DirectX 9 Programmable Graphics Pipeline, Kris Gray
• Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9.0, Frank Luna
• 3D Game Programming With Direct X 8.0, Clayton Crooks II
• 3DS Max 9 Bible, Kelly L. Murdock
• Maya 2 Character Animation, Vogel et al.
• Physics for Game Developers, David M. Bourg
• Programming Game AI by Example, Mat Buckland
• C++ for Game Programmers, Michael J. Dickheiser
• 3D Math Primer, Dunn and Parberry
• Programming Windows, 5th Edition, Charles Petzold
• Inside COM, Dale Rogerson
• Writing Solid Code, Steve Maguire
• Writing Secure Code, Howard and LeBlanc

Hardware

• 6 Xbox360 controllers for Windows (w/ force feedback)
• 5 Logitech gamepads
• 1 set of portable speakers (stereo + woofer)
• 1 USB microphone