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Systems Programming

What is it and how does it relate to games?

Our Systems team is in charge of a lot of stuff:

  • Math Library
  • STD Replacement Library
  • Core Game Framework
  • Core Application Framework
  • Input
  • Event messaging
  • Component-Entity systems
  • Script binding
  • (and more)

There's a lot of Windows and Linux domain knowledge here as well as a lot of knowledge of Physics, core game logic and low level memory management.

Systems teams will usually be involved at least in some part in each supported OS since most of their projects sit on each OS at a pretty low level.

Some things that might fall under a "Systems" team that we break up into separate teams (but our Systems team still interacts with pretty heavily):

  • Physics
  • Linux (dedicated server)
  • Direct support for other OSes (iOS/Mac/Consoles/etc)
  • Build Systems
  • Audio

The Books

Modern Operating Systems

Operating Systems Three Easy Pieces

Low Level Programming Assembly Execution Architecture

How Linux Works

The Linux Programming Interface

Retro Game Dev: C64 Edition

Making Games for the Atari 2600

Making 8-bit Arcade Games in C

Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D