About

“It is still magic even when you know how it is done” ,Terry Pratchett

Why Toymaker?

I see the modern day toy as the computer game and those that create them as the toy makers. Today, as it was in the past, it is a highly skilled and highly creative job.

I hope this site will be an inspiration and help to those who wish to learn how to write computer games.

So how did this site come about?

I used to work as a games programmer (last game was Emperor Battle for Dune published by Westwood Studios) before changing careers and became a lecturer in games programming at Teesside University. This site began as a support site for my students but then when the students started graduating they asked for continued access to it so I decided to put it up on the Intranet for all.

A big thank you goes to all Teesside students past and present who helped me revise this site and helped me myself learn through their enthusiasm for games.

If you are seriously interested in a career in games you should consider joining us and studying computer games programming. For specific details of the games courses see this page: Animation & Computer Games.

Why adverts?

I am not looking to make a profit from this site but it does cost me money for hosting etc. hence the adverts at the top of most pages. I will never have any pop up adverts and hopefully the ones I have will be fairly unobtrusive. If you would like to help support this site the you can click on one of them or order a book via my amazon associates links (see Books)..

Toymaker has existed since June 28th 2004

If you have any queries / bug reports / suggestions etc. please feel free to mail me at: webmaster@toymaker.info

Keith Ditchburn

To link to this site you can use this image:

Toymaker is a site aimed at those wishing to learn to program video games. It is aimed mainly at the beginner to intermediate games programmer. Toymaker is owned and all material is copyright © Keith Ditchburn unless stated otherwise. If I have inadvertently used something of yours that I should not have please let me know immediately and I will rectify the situation!