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NOTE: these links have not been tested -- so may be seriously out of date!
This page will be extended as more resources are included in the paper. We would also like to thank Drew Davidson for allowing us to mirror some of his links.
| NZGDA | New Zealand association of game development studios. Has a small amount of news about game design in New Zealand |
| IGDA | This is an excellent web site with lots of useful and interesting stuff. This is where a lot of the inspiration for this paper springs from. If you need to know something about what is happening with game development then this is a good place to start. |
| AIAS | The Academy of the Interactive Arts & Sciences is a not-for-profit professional membership organization serving the interactive entertainment development community. |
| DiGRA | Digital Games Research Association is a non-profit, international association of academics and practitioners whose work focuses on digital games and associated activities. |
| ISAGA | International Simulation and Gaming Association is an international organization for scientists and practitioners developing and using simulation, gaming and related methodologies. |
| ESA | The Entertainment Software Association is the U.S. association exclusively dedicated to serving the business and public affairs needs of companies that publish video and computer games for video game consoles, personal computers, and the Internet. |
| ACM | The Association for Computing Machinery offers a portal to computing literature, authoritative publications and conferences. |
| Gamasutra | This is another very good site that discusses a lot of the issue around game development. |
| Make Games | Read the online book "So you want to be a Computer Game Developer?" |
| Worldforge | An independent game developing community, focussing on MMORPGS. |
| The Art of Computer Game Design | A good book to start with if you are seriously interested in Game Development. |
| Computer Game Tutorials | One of Lenny's favorite Tutorial Websites. It might be the best out there. |
| Select Parks | Useful links to development resources around the net. |
| Game AI | Anything that has to do with Game AI |
| Open Source Gaming | Top Open Source Game Developers Site. |
| Easy Klik Game Making Stuff | A tool and support for a easy game developing library. |
| Adventure Maker | Creating Games without any programming... |
| Storybuilders | Gives you the possibility to build your own games |
| Cat mother | Closed company offering source code. |
| 300 games | The 300 Games Every Game Developer (and Gamer) Should Know |
| 400 project | The 400 Project is an ambitious attempt to collect "The 400 Rules of Game Design." |
| PS2-linux | PlayStation®2 Developer Network |
| djgpp | DJGPP is a complete 32-bit C/C++ development system for Intel 80386 (and higher) PCs running DOS |
| Allegro | Allegro is a game programming library for C/C++ developers distributed freely, supporting the following platforms: DOS, Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, Irix, Solaris, Darwin), Windows, QNX, BeOS and MacOS X |
| Game Development and YOU | Yet another industry insider blogs about the comings and goings of the Interactive Entertainment Industry. |
| Jamie On Game Development | Less painful videogame development |
| Solid Software Engineering for Games | GDC roundtable by Noel Llopis and Brian Sharp |
| Game Programming | On the road to game programming |
| Programmers Heaven | Over 22583 files, links and articles to explore |
| Yahoo's offer on Game Programming | Directory > Recreation > Games > Video Games > Programming |
| GAMES++ | Games & Game Programming |
| Famous Frames Inc. | Specializing in storyboards, comp art, illustration, animatic production, set renderings and concepting for advertising, film, television, themed entertainment and multimedia projects. |
| Game Design Documents | Articles on Design Documents |
| The Computer Games Dictionary! | A dictionary for terms in computer games |
| Game Definitions | A list of terms commonly used in the game industry |
| Gamedev Dictionary | Another dictionary of games terms. |
| Game Dictionary | A smaller dictionary |
| Game Terminology | Terminology, concepts, expressions... |
| The Anatomy of Games | From game design theory and practice. |
| Game Morphology | Analyzes representative games for distinct and common structural elements. |
| MIT OpenCourseWare | A free, open, publication of MIT Course Materials |
| CRPG Adventure Game Toolkit | Top Open Source Game Developers Site. |
| Inform | A text-based engine system allowing you to write your own infocom-style text adventures [like Zork or Adventure]. |
| 3D Game Studio | An integrated developing environment, has its own modeller and programming language, but is also compatible to high-end commercial programms. [also check out their resource site: Acknex] |
| True Vision 3D | A powerful 3D engine written in C++ and VB6. Check out their specification overview here. |
| Jet 3D Engine | A java powered 3D engine, which is freeware and has some tutorials for it on that site. |
| The Nebula Device | Radonlabs has released this breath taking open source game engine project. Everything is freeware and the source code is well documented! |
| Genesis 3D | Another relatively new and devoted 3D engine open source project. |
| Crystal Space | This one is open source as well. |
| OGRE | Object Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine |
| Kyra | A sprite engine based on the SDL library. |
| Torque Game Engine SDK | Another multi platform engine, which allows c++ like coding and good integration with other tools. You might also like these tutorials. |
| Fly 3D SDK | Fly 3D is known from the Book 3D Computer Games by Watt/Policarpo. Gives you an inside look at a professional game engine. |
| Game Maker | This is a beginner program for people who want to start making their own games without much hassle. It has a good documentation and a well structured interface. |
| Alice | The focus of the Alice project is to provide first exposure to programming for computer games. |
| Shark 3D | Shark 3D is a professional game engine, which allows total code control, is higly portable and also provides good network support. |
| Auran Jet | The Auran Engine is also a professional game engine, which can be tried as a demo download from that site. |
| Panda 3D | The open source game and simulation engine. |
| RPG Toolkit Development System | The RPG Toolkit is a development system for creating Role Playing Games. The standard edition is completely free. |
| Jamagic | Another game development program. |
| Unreal Engine | You all know it from the ego-shooter games, the editor does allow quite a fine level of own game and mods creation. |
| Half Life Engine | It takes some tools to get ready developing in the valve realm, but after that you are able to program really good 3D games. [be sure to get Hammer Editor, Zoner's Half Life Tools(compiling), HL SDK] |
| Slashdot Games | Nerd News about Gaming Stuff. |
| Slashdot | This is a great site for keeping up with what is happening in the world of computing |
| Gameslice | Geoff Keighley's Articles on Games, his "behind-the-games" features are interesting. |