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General game development
- DevMaster - General game development
- flipCode - Game developement news/resources (now just an archive)
- Gamasutra
- GameDev.net - Active forum community.
- Games++
- GamesFromScratch - Creating games from beginning until end
- Game dev section at O'Reilly
- Game Developer Magazine
- The Game Works
- DevImg.net - Developer Image Exchange
Reference
- DevMaster's 3D Engines Database - Game and graphics engines
- Eep²'s 3D Game Comparison - Compares various 3D game features
- Wotsit's Graphics File Formats
Tutorials
- Pixel2Life - Tutorial search engine
- Tutorio.com Tutorial Index
Other
- Remain in play.com - Source code of commercial games that have released their code on legal base (mostly GPL), this includes the quake series.
- GameWorks. - A community and resource site for all your game development needs
- Game Development - A game development website which includes booklists for newbies and good articles)
- Flash Game Design
- YPuech - Tools and resources for video game production
- Sidvind - Game development articles including physics
- V-Lodge - Smarter, more civilized product placement and advertising weaved into video games
- Gaming Web Comics
- Hugo Elias - Good reference on 3D and physical simulation techniques.
- Hoshikaze Space Sims Forum
- Game Development at Molly Rocket: Public domain or open source tools; and a game development discussion forum.
Wikis
See also the WikiNode
- GamerWiki videogame encyclopedia
- Dev Master Game Development Wiki
- FreeGameDev.net wiki - Free (as in freedom) game development wiki
- Indie Game Developer Wiki
- Ludism Game Design Wiki
- Rednek Game Development Wiki (Suspended)
- CodePedia Wiki - Game Development
- Free Games wiki
- Libregamewiki - A wiki listing open source games with free (as in freedom) game content
- IndieFAQs - the gamefaqs.com of Indie Games
News
- Blue's News - Gaming news
- Gamedevnews
- Game-oriented news at ZDNet
Models
- 3D Guru Kul - Free 3D Models
- J-Empire - 3D Models and Designs
Programming
- DirectX World - DirectX lessons. Learn how design a 3D game
- 2D Dev - forums for 2d game developers
- Cowboy Programming Several detailed articles on Game Programming with code examples.
- Amit's Game Programming Information
- George's XNA Programming
- WinSock Examples (C/C++)
- Winsock Specific Tutorials
- List of programming contests*
- MSDN - Microsoft Developers Network
- PHP Game Development - A forum dedicated exclusively to game design and programming in PHP, slanted towards MMOs and RPGs.
- . info/ Toymaker.info (combine link due to spam filter, but not a spam site) - Nice game programming (DirectX) tutorials and information.
- Humus.ca Very, *very* nice website convering lots of advanced techniques for DirectX and OpenGL.
- Convert C++ code to syntax highlighted (colored) HTML.
- Pascal Game Developement (Object Pascal/Delphi)
Compilers
- Free Pascal Compiler
- gcc
- Borland C++ Builder
- LCC-Win32
- Microsoft Visual C++
- Open Source 32Bit FreeBASIC (DOS,WINDOWS, LINUX, X-BOX)
General open-source/tips & tricks
RPG development
- RogueBasin - A wiki focusing on the development of roguelike RPGs
- C# Game Development - RPG focus
Game development schools/programs
- East Central Technical College (Fully online Technical Certificate)
- Austin Community College
- Digipen
- Full Sail
- Game Design Colleges
- Game Institute
- Gamemaker (Sweden)
- Gameversity
- Texas Women's University Video Game Design and Development Programs
- University of Advancing Technology Game Degrees
- UW Certificate Program
- The Guildhall at SMU
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Games Academy (Berlin, Germany)
- Parsons The New School for Design New York
Associations and communities
- DutchGameDevelopment - Forum for Dutch game developers (English posting possible)* German Game Developers Community
- FreeGameDev.net forum
- GameDev.net - Swedish game development community both for programmers and artists
- Indie Gaming Portal A community focused on game development on multiple platforms, allowing each member to create a development blog for their projects. Also publishes a small e-zine.
- Indiegamer Developer Discussion Boards
- International Game Developers Association (IGDA)
- Indonesian Game Developers Community
- Xeonaut Game Development Community
- Boolean Soup - Hobbyist community with forum, upload galleries and worklogs
