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GameDev.net
gamedev.netGameDev.net features over 1500 articles and tutorials, hundreds of book and product reviews, co... Moreverage of industry events, active community forums, daily industry news, job listings, and much, much more.
From the site: From our humble beginning in June of 1999, GameDev.net has emerged as the leading online community for game developers of all levels, from the green beginner to the seasoned industry veteran. Over 350,000 developers from around the world return here regularly to take advantage of our frequently updated developer news, thousands of articles and other resources, amazingly active forums, and most importantly to be a part of the growing international community of game developers. ...
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GarageGames.com
garagegames.comAn online game development community and resource center, keeping independent and professional ... Moredevelopers connected to their peers, the industry and cutting edge information, tools and code.
From the site: GarageGames is: a developer of game engine technology and tools an online publishing label for independent games a thriving online community of independent developers a distributor of game content to aid development a first party developer of great independent games! Our mission is to provide independent developers with tools, knowledge, co-conspirators; everything needed to make great games. ...
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Allegro.cc
allegro.ccGame developing community network, software directory, and up to date information pertaining to... More Allegro programming and gaming.
From the site: Allegro.cc is the most comprehensive website on the Internet pertaining to the Allegro Gaming Library . The Allegro library provides C/C++ programmers low level routines commonly needed in game programing, such as input, graphics, midi, sound effects, and timing. It is cross platform and works with many different compilers. Originally developed by Shawn Hargreaves, it is now a group project with contributions from all over the world! ...
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DevMaster.net
devmaster.netA game development site that provides articles, 3D engines database, a wiki, daily news updates... More, and a discussion forum.
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Simple DirectMedia Layer
libsdl.orgA cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide fast access to the graphics framebuffer... More and audio device.
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Crystal Space
crystalspace3d.orgA free (LGPL) and portable 3D engine written in C++. It runs on GNU/Linux, Windows, and MacOS/X... More and supports many modern 3D features like shaders, volumetric fog, stencil shadows, physics, skeletal animation, 3D sound, ...
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RAD Game Tools
smacker.comDeveloper and publisher of the Bink video codec,the Miles Sound System, and Granny 3D, a toolki... Moret for 3D game making.
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Game Developer Magazine
gdmag.comA monthly publication that delivers technical, how-to articles... More
From the site: The guerilla launch of Game Developer magazine by Alexander Antoniades, Alex Dunne, Nicole Freeman, and Larry O Brien. ... Game Developer magazine runs the first Soapbox, "Weeds and Oaks" by Chris Crawford, founder of the Game Developers Conference. ... They Inverted Kine!" the first of nearly 40 "Graphic Content" columns by Jeff Lander ...
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Toymaker
toymaker.infoAimed mainly at the new games programmer. It contains notes and answers to common questions wit... Moreh examples in C++ and DirectX. Resources. T2, a free terrain texture generation tool.
From the site: If you have any queries / bug reports / suggestions etc. please mail me at: webmaster@toymaker.info 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. Notes and FAQs use DirectX 9 and C++. Notes start from scratch and cover getting a basic Windows API application up and running, initialising and setting up Direct3D and then on to 2D and 3D rendering. ...
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PLANESHIFT - A FREE 3D FANTASY MMORPG
planeshift.itPlaneshift is a free 3D Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game ( MMORPG ). Planeshift eng... Moreine is Open Source. A world that evolves by itself in which you can roleplay, fight, solve quests and other fun.
From the site: PlaneShift is a Role Playing Game immersed into a 3D virtual fantasy world which is FULLY FREE to play. Fully free means you will have no surprises of premium content which will limit your gameplay or unbalance the game. There are no limitations in skills, ranks, abilities, items you can gain with your free account. ... At the present state of development, PlaneShift is not a complete game , but what we call a "tech demo". ...
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Java Monkey Engine
jmonkeyengine.comA 3D game engine written in and for Java. Many features including collisions, particle systems,... More shaders, terrain system, renderer abstraction.
From the site: Much of the inspiration for jME comes from David Eberly's book 3D Game Engine Design. jME was built to fulfill the lack of full featured graphics engines written in Java. Using a abstraction layer, it allows any rendering system to be plugged in. Currently, LWJGL is supported with plans for JOGL support in the near future. jME is completely open source under the BSD license. You are free to use jME in anyway you see fit, hobby or commercial. ...
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3D Rad
3drad.comA programmable, user-friendly, 3D real-time engine which allows you to build interactive 3D wor... Morelds by simply placing animated and intelligent 3D objects into a virtual scenery.
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DimensioneX Multiplayer Adventure Development Kit
dimensionex.net/en/Offers a freeware Java software capable of building and running multiplayer adventure games, pl... Moreayable with any browser. Several multiplayer games are available for free as a demo.
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Amit's Game Programming Information
www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.htmlDescriptions of algorithms for artificial intelligence, path finding, game design, objects, hex... Moreagonal tiles, threads, and text games.
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Truevision3D
truevision3d.comA 3D Engine, Media Engine and Net Engine for 3D game and application development using any majo... Morer programming language.
From the site: Truevision3D is focused on building cutting edge development tools at an affordable price. Large studios, indie developers, universities, and government agencies across the globe use our products for games, simulations, training, broadcast, and more. What began as a hobby project in January 1999 has grown into a global company, supporting thousands of clients and community users. ...
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HGE: Haaf's Game Engine
hge.relishgames.comA C/C++ library for creating hardware accelerated 2D games for Microsoft Windows. It provides m... Moreinimal yet fully functional and flexible set of routines for handling graphics, sound and input. [Shareware]
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Greggman: Game Design, Business and Programming
games.greggman.comArticles and opinions on Game Design by someone a long time in the business.
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Nuclex
nuclex.orgA .NET game development community site with technical articles, tutorials and code snippets, fo... Morecusing on game creation with the Microsoft XNA framework.
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GameTutorials
gametutorials.comSoftware development site providing step by step programming tutorials for C, C++, Win32, OpenG... MoreL and Direc3D. Leran how to program through the art of making games.
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GameProgrammer.com
gameprogrammer.comGame and graphics programming articles of interest to game programmers with all levels of exper... Moreience.
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Genesis3D
genesis3d.comProvides real-time 3D rendering. Genesis3D is an open source project with a large online commun... Moreity extending the capabilities of the Genesis3D engine every day.
