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I have always been interested in gaming and I have a reasonable amount of programming experience. While I have read strategies like Divide and Conquer, greedy approach and other principles, how do I actively get into game programming?

What other algorithms should I familiarize myself with. Is there any open source projects that I can participate?

Also, which language would be ideal for game development? I have experience in Java and C#.

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Maybe you check Programming.SE. Here's a similar question I found there – Conrad Frix Mar 31 '11 at 21:57
Maybe you could also check out gamedev.SE (for example, gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/41/… and gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/496/…) – Jimmy Mar 31 '11 at 22:03

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Recreate a browser playable Tetris game in javascript.

After you've done that, your hunger to do more will lead the way

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Just about every programming language has libraries for developing games in. If you have experience with C# then you should probably consider XNA.

As for specific algorithms, I recommend not worrying about that for now. For a beginner you want to get comfortable with stuff like drawing graphics and handling input.

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I can vote for xna which is a great place to start – Lavinski Apr 1 '11 at 3:14

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