In case you find a broken link here, then please let me know ASAP. Thanks.
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Game Development. The following links are for sites that are directly connected to game development, some the whole area of game development, some only about programming. |
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| IndieGamer Forum | Dexterity used to run a forum for indie game developer where a lot of talks were going on regarding game development, marketing, sales, support and technical issues. This forum was later closed down but some of the guys decided to setup a new forum. This new forum lives on with the same enthusiasm as the old one. If you are interested in Indie Game development then go and visit the forums. http://forums.indiegamer.com |
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GameDev.Net is probably one of the largest sources for game development material. Includes news, articles, job listings, book reviews and also a very active forum (more that 1.8 million postings and more than 67 thousands members). http://www.gamedev.net |
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Programmers Heaven is one of the largest online communities for programmers. They might have one of the largest collections of links, files, news, articles and message boards. All programming related but not all about game development. http://www.programmersheaven.com |
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Flipcode closed their doors on the 22nd of August 2005. They plan to keep their articles and forums opened as read only for some time. http://www.flipcode.com |
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'Your Source for Game Development' is their slogan. They bring lot's of news and have some very interesting articles. They are also hosting the 3D Engines Database. http://www.devmaster.net |
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Home of AngelScript. I never got around to use this script system but have been following it for some time. Worth checking out. The site also contain some interesting tools, such as Bitmap Font Generator, Texture Generator. They also have several tutorials as well as a very detailed Reference database (link collection). http://www.angelcode.com |
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Home of Torque, the Game Engine that was created after Tribes was released. Games such as Marble Blask Gold, Orbz and Dark Horizons: Lore and Think Tanks was all created with this game engine. Cheap and very advance engine. They have a very active developer forum also. I have not invested the $100 in the engine YET but bought the book about it. http://www.garagegames.com |
| Gamasutra | The place for news, articles, jobs,
education. Not a site to miss. Oh, also the main page for Game
Developers Conference, Game Developer Magazine. One note, if you plan to
sign up for the magazine then do become member of IGDA and you will get
the magazine for free. The price for IGDA is the same anyway, so you
just get more benefits. http://www.gamasutra.com |
| IGDA | From their their site: The International Game Developers Association is a non-profit membership
organization that advocates globally on issues related to digital game
creation. The IGDA's mission is to strengthen the international game
development community and effect change to benefit that community.
IGDA have lots of forums and chapters (local groups of people meeting
up), they also work active on making the games business a better place
for the developers. |
| J2ME
Development. The following links are for the different manufactures of J2ME handsets, or other useful resources for J2ME development. |
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Sun |
Since Sun is the company behind Java and J2ME it is the main place to get information regarding J2ME. They have a general SDK that supports more or less all interesting API's for J2ME. http://java.sun.com/j2me |
| BenQ Mobile / Siemens Mobile | After BenQ Mobile went bankrupt in 2006 the developer portal has been taken down. But the forum still exists; please check what my friend Daniel Klein wrote about it and how to access it. How to access BenQ Mobile forum. |
| Forum Nokia | The place to go for any Nokia related issue. Such as device specs, SDK, documentation and also their discussion forums. http://forum.nokia.com |
| SonyEricsson | The same story again, place to go for specs, SDK, documentation and forums. http://developer.sonyericsson.com/home |
| Motorola | The same story again, place to go for specs, SDK, documentation and forums. http://www.motocoder.com |
| Alcatel |
Seems developer site is fully gone now, used to be
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| Samsung | The same story again, place to go for specs, SDK, documentation and forums. http://developer.samsungmobile.com |
| Mobile Game Developer | Articles and forum's all related to
mobile game development. Worth checking out from time to time. http://www.mobilegd.com/ |
| Java Games Forum | Large forum dedicated to Java and game development. This includes desktop and mobile phones. Part of the java.net community. http://www.javagaming.org |
| J2ME.org | Yet another forum dedicated to J2ME. http://www.j2me.org |
| J2ME Polish | J2ME Polish is the site for the tools set with the same name. It consist of a advanced build system, GUI system (using CSS), localization framework, Game Engine, Logging Framework, various utilities. Not a place to be missed if you are serious about J2ME development. http://www.j2mepolish.org |
| Nephin Games | Part of the text from the About Us
page: We specialise in mobile games that use cutting-edge technology
and community-based / multiplayer features to allow vast communities of
players have lots of fun in a variety of game worlds! I worked for Nephin Games for awhile and is still in touch with some of the people there. http://www.nephingames.com |
| In-Fusio / Mobile Scope AG | I worked for 4 years for Mobile Scope
which became part of the In-Fusio group year 2005. Our
old site is still online (but updated a lot)
http://www.mobilescope.com Do also check http://www.in-fusio.com and their developer site http://developer.in-fusio.com |
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| This is THE mailing list to be on if you are serious about J2ME development. The list is rather active with lots of professional developers. You can almost always count with replies to your questions/issues. My archive of the list got more than 18000 messages. | |
| Graphics
artists. Following are graphics artists that I have worked with in the past and had a good experience with. |
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On the website of Vision A Far you will find some awesome posters of space, (plus a few that hasn't to do with Space). Gary Tonge is doing some very impressive work. I do plan to order a few of his posters. Gary is also working in the games business as graphics artist. http://www.visionafar.com |
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Web site of Chris Hildenbrand. Featuring game graphics for flash / gba and mobile phones. http://www.spriteattack.com |
| Music/SFX
production. Following are people/companies that creates music and sound effects for games. |
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Lemon Multimedia is a small production
house capable of delivering bespoke audio in many different formats for
a variety of platforms. Previous work has included games audio / sound
design on Mobile Phones, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, Playstation 2
and Dreamcast. Andy Lemon is also about to release his first CD with trance/techno music. http://www.lemonmultimedia.co.uk |
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Game Institute is offering lot's of online
courses related to game development, this includes mathematics/physics,
engine, graphics, input... They also have several seminars, with such
subjects as AI, Perlin Noise, Shader programming, Java, lighting.. I started on their math course long ago, but it was bad timing as I had little time for it. I will return to the course at a later stage. http://www.gameinstitute.com |
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Gameversity is offering a great collection of online courses/seminars, all related to game development. They cover areas such as 3D rendering, Shader programming, Network programming, Physics, design, art and math. |
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Game Developers Following are developers who either do games for a living or just as hobbies. All developers will be people I have connections with in one or another way. We at Mobile Scope have or is working with several of them also. |
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House of Bytes Software |
This site is run by Daniel
Klein whom I have known for years. Only game released so far is the puzzle game Bubblet for PC, but
do expect more games coming from him, probably also J2ME games. Oh, and
he is 5 times winner of 'Developer of the Month' award at the Siemens
Developer forums. Daniel is also writing reviews of books he read, J2ME, Java and books about writing, so far all reviews are in German, but I will convince him to do them in English also.http://www.hobsoft.de |
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Dynamite Mobile |
Developer of several of Mobile Scope's old and also upcoming games. They keep impressing me
all the time. Oh, and I was the one who got them started on Mobile
Gaming. Their past experience is GBC, Playstation, XBox and PS2
development. http://www.dynamitemobile.com |
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One Man Band |
Small developer (as name says) who has
experience in developing for all kinds of platforms, such as PC, GBC,
GBA, Playstation, BREW, J2ME and custom hardware. http://www.onemanband.com |
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Developer/publisher of games for PC, Mac
and PocketPC. None of the games are super complex, so it is easy to get
started with them, but be careful they can be rather addictive. Phelios have also created a SDK for creating multi-platform 2D games (Mac and Windows). http://www.phelios.com & http://www.phelios.com/ptk |
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Danish developer who concentrates on
J2ME mobile games. http://www.kiloo.com |
| Ziggurat Interactive | US based game developer founded by my good friend Bob Koon. I have since leaving Nephin Games been working as freelancer for Zig on some interesting titles. Do visit http://www.zigguratinteractive.com and maybe you will find information about what titles. |
