Unity 3D

• Unity 3D
• User Manual
• Scripting Reference
• Unity Asset Store

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Version Control with Unity

• Some student groups have strongly recommended : Unity Plastic SCM

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Team Management with Unity/GitHub

• Github and Unity has improved over time but some groups still report problems with it
• Instructions: Using Git with 3D Games
• Instructions: How to Git with Unity
• Discussion How to use Git for Unity3D source control?
• A model for: Git branching
• Video:Github Tutorial For Beginners
• Video:Unity and Source Code Control - Git

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A Few Game Engines

• CryEngine
• Unreal Engine
• Ogre 3D (free, Open source rendering engine)
• Irrlicht (free, open source game engine, c++)
• Source SDK kit (Half Life 2 SDK for mods; free for anyone that owns a copy of HL2)

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Free/Cheap 3D Modelling Systems

• Humanoid Modeling
• Blender
• SketchUp
• zBrush Core (formerly Sculptris)
• IrrEdit (free world editor)
• Wings 3D (free 3D modeling program)

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Scanning 3D objects

• Meshroom
• Meshroom tutorial/demonstration

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Free Image/Texture Editors

• GIMP

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Free 3D Assets

• Unity Asset Store
• Adobe Mixamo
• 3D Warehouse (a big choice of models at DAE/Collada format)
• CGTrader
• ArchiBit Generation (various well designed models)
• Flying architecture (various models with regular updates)
• Free the models
• Klicker (a few chairs and trees)
• Model3D.biz
• TurboSquid (offers many free models/textures)
• Archive 3D
• SciFi 3D

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Free Textures

• Free Stock Textures
• Texture Forrest
• Arroway Textures

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Audio

• Our own audio database (login required)
• Audacity (free audio editor/recorder)

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Gaming Related Websites

• GameDev.net
• Game Developer

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C# Programming

• What You Need to Know to Move from C++ to C#
• An analysis of C# (especially in relationship to Java and C++)

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Other Game Related Books

• Game Programming Gems Series
• Real-time Rendering (Industry Bible)
• Real-time Collision Detection
• Game Engine Architecture
• Game Feel (Control Response)
• Audio for Games: Planning, Process and Production, by Alexander Brandon. New Riders. ISBN: 0735714134
• Game Coding Complete, by Mike McShaffry. Paraglyph Press. ISBN: 1-932111-75-1
• The Indie Game Development Survival Guide, Game Development Series, by David Michael. Charles River Media. ISBN: 1-58450-214-2
• Physics for Game Developers, by David Bourg (O'Reilly Media)
• Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals, by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman (MIT Press)

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