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Game Development

Find here some links and content about video game development.

White Papers

• SymbianSoundMixer
• MultiFrameTextureProduction
• StarFieldProduction

Links

Various game development related links in no particular order

• Allegro gaming library. See also http://www.allegro.cc/
• OpenGL
• Open Scene Graph
• Matrix Rotation Tutorial on cprogramming.com
• Crystal Space
• About sinusoids
• Classic games resources
• http://www.3dlinks.com
• INRIA mesh database
• http://wiki.gamedev.net
• Isometric game makers
• Basic 3D Math
• IRR Licht
• Tiling in OpenGL
• Nehe Radial Blur lesson
• Game Development Basics for Symbian OS v9

3D Models

Free

• http://www.scifi-meshes.com

Commercial

• http://www.3drt.com/
• http://www.frogames.net
• http://www.exchange3d.com
• http://www.turbosquid.com
• http://www.dexsoft-games.com/

Images

• Check out http://commons.wikimedia.org

3D Modeler

• MilkShape - cheap
• ModelMagic3D - cheap
• Blender - open source
• MeshLab - open source
• Ultimate Unwrap 3D - cheap

UV Map tools

• http://www.unwrap3d.com

Explosions

Used Blender to make an explosion animation, capture a few frames then create a texture with 16 frames for instance.

• http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~nv91-gta/OpenGL/examples/explosion.html
• http://alphashooter.sourceforge.net/opengl.html
• http://graphics.stanford.edu/~tolis/toli/software/asteroids/
• http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=470719&whichpage=1&#3093567
• http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/lessons/lesson.asp?lesson=30

Skybox

• http://www.katsbits.com/htm/tutorials/blender_rendering_skybox_environment.htm
• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Build_a_skybox

Source code

• http://www.idsoftware.com/business/techdownloads/
• http://www.lib3ds.org/ - 3DS format loader