Unity 3D

• Unity 3D
• Blurst Unity Blog
• Baking your lighting and Exporting with LightUp
• Documentation
• Tutorials
• Reference Manual
• User Manual
• Scripting Reference

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A Few Game Engines

• Torque
• Power Game Factory
• Blitz Basic
• Dark Basic
• Game Maker
  
• CryEngine
• Unreal Engine
• Ogre 3D (free, Open source rendering engine)
• Irrlicht (free, open source game engine, c++)
• Crystal Space (free, open source game engine, c++)
• XNA Game Studio (free, Microsoft game library)
• Source SDK kit (Half Life 2 SDK for mods; free for anyone that owns a copy of HL2)

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Free 3D Modelling Systems

• Blender
• Google SketchUp
• Caligari TrueSpace
• FreeWorld3D (demo/paid, world/terrain editor)
• IrrEdit (free world editor)
• Wings 3D (free 3D modeling program)

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Free Image/Texture Editors

• GIMP
• MaPZone (free procedural texture software)

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SketcUp Resources

• Baking your lighting and Exporting with LightUp
• Google SketchUp Help Forum
• Case Studies
• Training
• Components, Materials and Entourage Objects
• SketchUcation
• Google SketchUp For Dummies website

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Blender Resources

• Blender Documentation Home
• Blender/Python Introduction
• API docs
• Source Coding Guidelines
• UI Section
• Architecture

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Free 3D Assets

• Google 3D Warehouse (a big choice of models at DAE/Collada format)
• Resources.blogscopia (free well designed models)
• ArchiBit Generation (various well designed models)
• Flying architecture (various models with regular updates)
• Kinnarps (office furniture)
• Free the models
• Kolo (bathroom furniture)
• Creative-3D.net (a lot of importable furniture, but monochrome)
• Klicker (a few chairs and trees)
• Model3D.biz
• Baumgarten Enterprises (a few interesting models, generally for industrial purpose)
• 3DPlants.com (a lot of plants but without colors, except for the Plant of the month)
• Reiner’s Tiles (free, 2D and 3D graphics)
• TurboSquid (offers many free models/textures)
• Dark GDK (free environment that includes a selection of content)
• Archive 3D
• SciFi 3D
• 3D Model Free
• 3d Buffet
• Amazing 3D

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Free Textures

• Noctua Graphics
• Absolute Background Textures Archive
• Amazing 3D Textures
• Texture Forrest
• Mayang's Free Textures

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Audio

• Our own audio database (login required)
• Free audio clips
• Simply the best clips
• Audacity (free audio editor/recorder)
• Audacity manual

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Gaming Related Websites

• Dice
• Desura
• GameDev.net
• Gamasutra
• devMaster

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Game Developer Magazines

• Game Developer Magazine
• Games Magazine
• Edge Magazine
• Game Pro

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C# Programming

• C# FAQ for C++ programmers
• Moving from C/C++ to C#: What to Expect
• C++ -> C#: What You Need to Know to Move from C++ to C#
• Sharp New Language: C# Offers the Power of C++ and Simplicity of Visual Basic
• An analysis of C# (especially in relationship to Java and C++)
• C# on MSDN (includes the C# specification, programmer's reference, tour)

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Other Game Related Books

• Game Programming Gems Series
• Real-time Rendering (Industry Bible)
• Real-time Collision Detection
• Game Engine Architecture
• GPU Gems 1, 2, & 3 [ Free ] (Shaders)
• Game Feel (Control Response)
• The Game Maker's Apprentice, by Jacob Habgood and Mark Overmars. APress, 2006. ISBN 1590596153
• Audio for Games: Planning, Process and Production, by Alexander Brandon. New Riders, 2004. ISBN: 0735714134
• Game Coding Complete, by Mike McShaffry. Paraglyph Press, 2003. ISBN: 1-932111-75-1
• Developing Games in Java, by David Brackeen. New Riders, 2004. ISBN: 1592730051
• The Indie Game Development Survival Guide, Game Development Series, by David Michael. Charles River Media, 2003. ISBN: 1-58450-214-2
• AI for Game Developers, by David Bourg and Glenn Seemann (O'Reilly Media, 2004)
• The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, by Jesse Schell (Morgan Kaufmann, 2008)
• Physics for Game Developers, by David Bourg (O'Reilly Media, 2001)
• Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals, by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman (MIT Press, 2003)

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