André LaMothe is a
computer scientist
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, author, hardware engineer, and
game programmer
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, known for writing books about game development.
["XGameStation--The Ultimate Console? Just Make Games Yourself," Hyper 120, October 2003, page 26.]["Let the X Games Begin" by Alex Handy, ]Make Magazine
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, issue 04, 2005, pages 48-50.["André LaMothe," Baker & Taylor Author Biographies, January 3, 2000, accessed 5/20/2023.]
Game design and programming
LaMothe is an independent game designer
who was CEO of Xtreme Games
and also developed video games for
Microsoft Windows
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. In the gaming industry LaMothe has a reputation as the "Yoda of game design," encouraging and teaching other programmers.
He and Alex Varanese also designed the
XGameStation Micro Edition as a game development tool for hobbyists and students.
LaMothe is also the hardware evangelist for the upcoming
Intellivision Amico
The Intellivision Amico is an upcoming home video game console that is being developed and marketed by Intellivision Entertainment. It was originally slated to be released in October 2020, but repeated delays followed, leaving the console with ...
and the founder of Nurve Networks LLC and iC0nstrux.com.
Writing career
LaMothe is an author of multiple books on computer programming and game design, including ''Windows Game Programming for Dummies''.
Other books include ''Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus'', which tackles the development of a 3D software engine across 1600 pages.
Many of his game development books were released in the 1990s and early 2000s. He has been described as having "an uncanny knack of shaping some of the most difficult and mind-bending programming concepts into a palatable form."
["Review of Windows Game Programming for Dummies by André LaMothe," ]PC Zone
''PC Zone'', founded in 1993, was the first magazine dedicated to games for IBM-compatible personal computers to be published in the United Kingdom. Earlier PC magazines such as ''PC Leisure'', ''PC Format'' and ''PC Plus'' had covered games but ...
, issue 87, March 2000, page 100.
Selected bibliography
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* Game Programming for the Propeller Powered HYDRA
* Game Programming Starter Kit
See also
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XGameStation series
The XGameStation is a series of embedded systems, primarily designed as a dedicated home video game console, created by Andre LaMothe and sold by his company Nurve Networks LLC. Originally designed to teach electronics and video game development ...
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HYDRA Game Development Kit
The HYDRA Game Development Kit launched in September 2006, and was developed by André LaMothe who designed the prior XGameStation series of consoles. Like the XGameStation, HYDRA is an open system, allowing anyone to create games for it. However, ...
References
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Living people
People from the San Francisco Bay Area
Video game programmers
American computer scientists
San Jose State University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)