A good start but needs more detail

Programming Linux Games is an excellent beginning to Linux and cross platform game development.
Its main deficiencies are:
detail on the libraries suggested,
the use of C instead of C++,
and buggy openAL code which I could not get working.

It is a very good reference to basic SDL and OpenAL, and is very handy to have in one place.

I still recommend as a basic book on game programming.

Other Reviews

• Good beginning walkthrough for game programming
• Good into to SDL and Game Scripting. Horrible otherwise
• A good start but needs more detail
• decent but could have been much better