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Development Tools

Plan to fund your project?  Check out http://www.kickstarter.com/ for possibly fundraising!

All-purpose game development threads are also available.

All-around good site with lots of articles on game development.

Here are some free tools/engines:

• Setting up repositories and collaboration spaces
  • Assembla
  • Goggle Sites
  • TortoiseSVN
  • Source Control in Unreal
• Processing - a good simple way to do lots of cool stuff fast
• Kinect
  • The Microsoft Kinect SDK (beta)
  • Cool open-source KinectRGB-D (depth camera) project
    • RIT's Kinect resource page
  • Another Kinect project (NUI)
• Sound
  • http://www.freesound.org/
  • http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection
  • 3Aopensource_audio
• 2D Tools
  • http://aviary.com
  • http://www.gimpshop.com/
  • http://inkscape.org
• 3D Tools
  • http://monophyl.com/?p=640
  • http://www.blender.org/ (use 2.5)
  • http://chumbalum.swissquake.ch/
  • http://www.nevercenter.com/
  • http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/item?id=13571257&siteID=123112
• 2D / 3D Art Assets
  • http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=544073
• Photos (flickr with creative commons search flag on)
  • http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=as&l=cc&ct=0&mt=all&adv=1
• Engines
  • http://www.box2d.org/
  • http://love2d.org/
  • http://2dboy.com/2009/05/27/rapid-prototyping-framework/
  • http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=131458&whichpage=1&#726530
  • http://unity3d.com/unity/download/
  • http://quark.sourceforge.net/ http://www.qeradiant.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi
  • http://www.blender.org/
  • http://www.ogre3d.org/
  • http://gamequery.onaluf.org/

Check out the following links to learn more about various technologies in game development.  This page will be updated often, so revisit for more information.

• User Interface (HUD) Development
  • http://www.swtor.com/news/blog/20110429
• Artificial Intelligence
  • http://eis.ucsc.edu/ (including Starcraft and Mario bot/world AI)
• 3D modeling & art
  • http://students.autodesk.com/
  • http://www.cgsociety.org/
  • http://conceptart.org/
  • http://cgchannel.com/
  • http://cgtextures.com
  • http://mayang.com/textures/
• A great set of interviews from industry folks on the role of the technical artist
• GECK (Fallout 3 Development)
• XNA Examples
  • New XNA video tutorials from Microsoft
  • Converting XNA 3.1 to 4.0 (good cheat-sheet)
  • Intro to XNA book (free PDF)
  • http://www.riemers.net/
  • http://www.xnadevelopment.com/tutorials.shtml
  • http://www.ziggyware.com/downloads.php?cat_id=4
  • http://www.bluerosegames.com/brg/xna101.aspx
  • http://www.stromcode.com/2008/03/29/a-few-new-xna-tutorials/
  • http://www.xnaresources.com/
  • http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/Zacharus/Introduction_to_XNA_XML_Content_Files
  • Networking/Multiplayer in XNA
    • http://creators.xna.com/en-US/education/catalog/?devarea=19

    • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb975645.aspx

  • XNA/C# curriculum for intro programming (developed by Microsoft)

• Gamemaker Examples
  • http://www.yoyogames.com/make/tutorials
  • http://www.freewebs.com/gmtutorials/
• Unreal Engine Examples
  • http://developer.nvidia.com (free UDK Unreal Development Kit)
  • http://www.moddb.com/engines/unreal-engine-3/tutorials
  • http://waylon-art.com/LearningUnreal/
• J2ME Examples
  • http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/02/09/j2me1.html
  • http://www.j2mesalsa.com/elearning/index.html
• Torque Examples
  • http://www.codesampler.com/torque.htm
  • http://torque.realinfo.de/index.php?title=Torque_Beginners_Tutorial
  • http://www.garagegames.com/community/resources/view/12721
• Blender Examples
  • http://www.blender.org/education-help/tutorials/
  • http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Blender-3d/1
  • http://www.blendernation.com/tutorials/
  • http://www.cgtutorials.com/c3/Blender
• Havok Examples
  • http://www.deansdirectortutorials.com/3D/Havok/
  • http://director-online.com/havok/
• .NET Compact Framework (Windows Mobile Dev)
  • http://netcf2.blogspot.com/

Programming In General

• MS Application Architecture Guide (2nd Edition): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=ce40e4e1-9838-4c89-a197-a373b2a60df2&displaylang=en
• Excellent XNA and C# material: http://www.csharpcourse.com/
• Threading in C#: http://www.albahari.com/threading/
• Design Patterns: http://amazedsaint.net/patterns.pdf

Another good clearinghouse of articles: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html.

A good site with some nice articles on AI: http://robert.zubek.net/publications/index.html

General info site on game design and a searchable database of schools.