Links

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General

• DevMaster - General game development
• flipCode - Game developement news/resources (now just an archive)
• Gamasutra
• GameDev.net - Active forum community.
• Games++
• Game dev section at O'Reilly
• Game Developer Magazine
• The Game Works
• DevImg.net - Developer Image Exchange

Reference

• DevMaster's 3D Engines Database - Game and graphics engines
• Eep²'s 3D Game Comparison - Compares various 3D game features
• Wotsit's Graphics File Formats

Tutorials

• Pixel2Life - Tutorial search engine
• Tutorio.com Tutorial Index

Other

• Remain in play.com - Source code of commercial games that have released their code on legal base (mostly GPL), this includes the quake series.
• GameWorks. - A community and resource site for all your game development needs
• Game Development - A game development website which includes booklists for newbies and good articles)
• Flash Game Design
• YPuech - Tools and resources for video game production
• Sidvind - Game development articles including physics
• V-Lodge - Smarter, more civilized product placement and advertising weaved into video games
• Gaming Web Comics
• Hugo Elias - Good reference on 3D and physical simulation techniques.
• Hoshikaze Space Sims Forum

Wikis

• GamerWiki videogame encyclopedia
• Dev Master Game Development Wiki
• FreeGameDev.net wiki - Free (as in freedom) game development wiki
• Indie Game Developer Wiki
• Ludism Game Design Wiki
• Rednek Game Development Wiki (Suspended)
• CodePedia Wiki - Game Development
• Free Games wiki
• Libregamewiki - A wiki listing open source games with free (as in freedom) game content
• IndieFAQs - the gamefaqs.com of Indie Games

News

• Blue's News - Gaming news
• Gamedevnews
• Game-oriented news at ZDNet

Models

• 3D Guru Kul - Free 3D Models
• J-Empire - 3D Models and Designs

Programming

• DirectX World - DirectX lessons. Learn how design a 3D game
• 2D Dev - forums for 2d game developers
• Cowboy Programming Several detailed articles on Game Programming with code examples.
• Amit's Game Programming Information
• George's XNA Programming
• WinSock Examples (C/C++)
• Winsock Specific Tutorials
• List of programming contests*
• MSDN - Microsoft Developers Network
• PHP Game Development - A forum dedicated exclusively to game design and programming in PHP, slanted towards MMOs and RPGs.
• . info/ Toymaker.info (combine link due to spam filter, but not a spam site) - Nice game programming (DirectX) tutorials and information.
• Humus.ca Very, *very* nice website convering lots of advanced techniques for DirectX and OpenGL.
• Convert C++ code to syntax highlighted (colored) HTML.
• Pascal Game Developement (Object Pascal/Delphi)

Compilers

• Free Pascal Compiler
• gcc
• Borland C++ Builder
• LCC-Win32
• Microsoft Visual C++
• Open Source 32Bit FreeBASIC (DOS,WINDOWS, LINUX, X-BOX)

General open-source/tips & tricks

• DevX
• The Code Project
• Planet Source Code
• Free Source Code

RPG development

• RogueBasin - A wiki focusing on the development of roguelike RPGs
• C# Game Development - RPG focus

Game development schools/programs

• East Central Technical College (Fully online Technical Certificate)
• Austin Community College
• Digipen
• Full Sail
• Game Design Colleges
• Game Institute
• Gamemaker (Sweden)
• Gameversity
• Texas Women's University Video Game Design and Development Programs
• University of Advancing Technology Game Degrees
• UW Certificate Program
• The Guildhall at SMU
• Rochester Institute of Technology
• Games Academy (Berlin, Germany)

Associations and communities

• DutchGameDevelopment - Forum for Dutch game developers (English posting possible)* German Game Developers Community
• FreeGameDev.net forum
• GameDev.net - Swedish game development community both for programmers and artists
• Indie Gaming Portal A community focused on game development on multiple platforms, allowing each member to create a development blog for their projects. Also publishes a small e-zine.
• Indiegamer Developer Discussion Boards
• International Game Developers Association (IGDA)
• Indonesian Game Developers Community
• Xeonaut Game Development Community
• Boolean Soup - Hobbyist community with forum, upload galleries and worklogs