The Best Web Game Development Site! 

 

Gamasutra - http://www.gamasutra.com/ The Art and Science of making Games.   Game Developer Magazine - http://www.gdmag.com/ A monthly publication that delivers technical, how-to articles   NeHe Productions - http://nehe.gamedev.net/ OpenGL programming. Many tutorials, sample programs/games, and source code. A CD is available for order containing all of the site.   GameDev.net - http://www.gamedev.net/ Featuring a huge reference library and weekly interviews of professionals inside the industry. Participate in a public game development project.   Irt.org - http://www.irt.org/games/ Design challenges, tutorials, and articles on coding design.   flipCode - http://www.flipcode.com/ Find articles, coding techniques, news, and interviews relating to Game programming. A fair number of specific tutorials as well.   GarageGames.com - http://www.garagegames.com/ An online game development community and resource center, keeping independent and professional developers connected to their peers, the industry and cutting edge information, tools and code.   Game Tutorials - http://www.GameTutorials.com/ Over one hundred tutorials in C/C++ for the beginning programmer.   Amit's Game Programming Information - http://xenon.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html Descriptions of algorithms for artificial intelligence, path finding, game design, objects, hexagonal tiles, threads, and text games.   CFXweb - Demo and Game Development - http://www.cfxweb.net/ Daily news, articles, art gallery, downloads, games, demos, demo scene news, forums, online irc clients, and source code.   Blitz Basic - http://www.blitzbasic.com/ A specialized version of BASIC designed specifically for game development. Includes features like custom types and functions. Code is compiled before execution to speed things up.   AI Wisdom - http://www.aiwisdom.com/ Attempts to catalogue every game AI article ever written in game development books, magazines, and conference proceedings. All articles can be searched by topic, genre, resource, or date. It's a very focused site and a great place to find out what secrets game AI professionals have published.   zstar - http://zstar.sourceforge.net/ An extensible, distributed system for game development, consisting of an abstract game client, and a game server to which players connect to play games against other players or alone.   Reprints of Works by Diana Gruber - http://www.fastgraph.com/diana.html Articles and book chapters by Diana Gruber on the subject of game design and programming.   Action Arcade Adventure Set - http://www.makegames.com/sidescroller/ The entire book by Diana Gruber describing how to make a side scrolling game.   East Coast Games - http://www.EastCoastGames.com/ training new programmers and to making great games, tutorials on C/C++, Java and DirectX, several games written for Windows (freeware).   Mappy for PC (DOS and Win95) - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/7336/robmpy.htm A utility for creating flexible 'maps' for tile based 2D games (scrolling shoot-em-ups, or 8-way scrolling adventures, whatever).   Games Research - http://www.red3d.com/siggraph/2000/course39/ Materials from, and links to resources related to, the Siggraph 2000 course "Games Research: the Science of Interactive Entertainment"   Xtreme Games - http://www.xgames3d.com/ Free tools and source code and an offer to sign up new developers for joint ventures for a general pooling of resources.   The Playground Project - http://www.ioe.ac.uk/playground/frame_n.htm Building computer environments for 4-8 year-olds to play, design, and create games. A playground is a place to play with rules not just by them.   GameProgrammer.com - http://www.gameprogrammer.com/ Game and graphics programming articles of interest to game programmers with all levels of experience.   Quake Developers Pages - http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/quake/ Information and resources for quake developers   Zingtech Computer Solutions - http://zingtech.com/features/gamedev/ Development site with tutorials, an introduction to DirectX and a game idea center. Also Allegro game programming library sections. Books. Links.   GamesCoding UK - http://www.gamecoding.co.uk/ Overview of different languages and libraries for game programming, demo programs, "projects" (tutorials), and news about the industry.   Exaflop - http://www.exaflop.org/ A programmers' resource with extensive resources related to graphics and games programming.   DIV Design Studio - http://www.div-arena.com/ Community site for programming with DIV.   GameDeveloper.net - http://www.gamedeveloper.net/ Good site with many tutorials. Subjects include 2D/3D, physics, and AI. Covers OpenGL, DirectX, game design, and graphic art.   Game Algorithms - http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/gamealgorithms.html Algorithms, source code and references.   A Critical Look at Programming Languages - http://www.gamespy.com/legacy/articles/devweek_b.shtm An article by Tim Sweeney on the evolution and future of programming languages as it relates to game development.   Paul Hsieh - http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/tech.shtml Source code, tips, and tricks.   Simple Game Engine - http://www.geocities.com/djterrier/SGEmain.htm Information, screenshots and downloads for Simple Game Engine (freeware) that enables you to write your own games using a definition language.   PC Game Programming Explorer - http://droberts.best.vwh.net/pcgpex/pcgpex.htm Book by Dave Roberts that takes readers inside the world of PC game programming and reveals the essential techniques to make game programming easy and fun.   Knowledge Hound - http://www.knowledgehound.com/topics/gameprog.htm Tutorials, tips, and how-to guides for game programmers of all types.   Games Creation Resources - http://www.mindspring.com/~ambrosine/resource.html Game creation programs for non-programmers.   BlueParrots - http://blueparrots.com/ C, C++, Assembly source code examples for games, graphics, and sound.   2Dgame.nl - http://www.2dgame-tutorial.com/ Ten step tutorial for programming a 2-dimensional parrallax-scroller with realistic physics, sound, and music.   Gepard Studio - http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/solaris/46/ Downloads for game programming, along with some Java, Linux, DOS and Windows games.   Ray Game Designer - http://eicart.free.fr/rgd/ Freeware 3D construction kit for Windows based on a RayCaster.   TI 83/86 Program Source Code - http://www.geocities.com/marc_hawkinson/ TI-83 and 86 Source Code for several games. All games can be programed directly onto your calculator.   Rise Game Development Home Page - http://www.angelfire.com/games2/Rise/ Tutorials on games and QBasic along with developer tools downloads.   Making a quake3 mod - http://www.geocities.com/codesolution/index.html A document describing how to compile quake and install you mod.   DXC Companion - http://freespace.virgin.net/udxc.ss/ Tutorials and resources for the DX-Creator.   Impacto - http://scorpius.spaceports.com/~esanto/ A tool to make games and multimedia applications.   SoftLight Development - http://thunder.prohosting.com/~sssmoker/ Lots of programs and source code, development tools, Direct X examples, and killer links. With a Windows focus.   Combat Aircraft Simulation - http://www.combataircraftsimulation.php4hosting.com/ Resources for developing a flight simulator.   RPG game programming page - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hub/5282/eng/ Page related to RPG programming. Has a freeware game (not finished, but in development) w/ all its sources   Games++ Megasite - http://www.gamespp.com/ Game programming, online games, cheats, tutorials, references, Direct X, C/C++, and Java.   Game Development Search Engine, The - http://www.gdse.com/servlet/gdse.main Web portal and search engine dedicated to game development. Links to articles, tutorials and source code that cover all aspects of game development. Read and post to game development newsgroups.   2DNow - http://2dnow.zenzer.net/ A forum for people interested in independent 2D game development.   Ziron Multimedia - http://ziron.com/links/ Links to articles, source code, and tutorials.   DevMaster.net - http://www.devmaster.net/ A game development website that provides resources, articles, tutorials, daily news updates, and forum.