Platform/Windows/Small executables

.NET	7
Artificial Intelligence	7
Group behavior	2
Path finding	16
A* and its derivatives	6
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Audio	0
DirectX	8
DSP	5
Ogg Vorbis	2
OpenAL	1
Windows	1
Computer Science	2
Algorithms & data structures	12
BSP trees	8
Encryption	12
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Data storage	4
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Image	10
Resource files	2
Game Development	20
Cheat & crack prevention	10
Input	3
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Character animation	6
DirectX	24
Optimizing	8
Illumination	5
Deferred lighting	7
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Lighting models	6
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion	4
Shadow maps	18
Shadow volumes	15
Image processing & synthesizing	19
Non-polygonal rendering	3
Ray tracing	3
OpenGL	12
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Shaders	32
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Cloth	2
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Fire & smoke	4
Liquids	12
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Implicit surfaces	6
Parametric curves & surfaces	7
Polygon reduction & LOD	3
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Terrain	7
Continuous LOD	12
Generating data	4
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Text	6
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Languages	5
Assembler	20
C & C++	26
C++ exceptions	5
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C#	4
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D	2
Java	4
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Polytopes	6
Platform	2
Linux	1
Mac	2
Windows	13
COM, ATL & WTL	8
Dynamically loaded libraries	6
Hooks	5
Input	2
Networking	6
Screensavers	3
Services	1
Shell	2
Small executables	3
Windows	8
Web Technologies	8

Under the Hood: Reduce EXE and DLL size with LIBCTiny.lib
Jan 2001 - Matt Pietrek
This article is about how to minimize the size of windows executables and dlls.

Techniques for reducing Executable size
Oct 2001 - James Brown
A good article on what can be done about reducing the executable file size under Windows.

Creating a 4k Windows intro
March 2003 - Adrian Brown
This article explains how to create windows programs that are less than 4k in size. It also explains how to use DirectX while still keeping the size within the limit.