[snowcrshd]

I think this book is better suited to people that have already written a few games.

It mostly talks about common patterns that arise during gamedev and how to work with them. IIRC, it shows trade-offs of different approaches.

I suggest starting out with Love2d [1]. Docs are good, community is great, lots of tutorials online.

There's this guy writing a tutorial series [2] on creating a game with Love2D. Not finished yet, but it is awesome! I think that would be a good place to start.

I hope this helps.

[1] https://love2d.org

[2] https://github.com/SSYGEA/blog/issues/11

[amelius]

Also check out the Graphics Gems series.