Student Tools

Plan to fund your project?  Check out http://www.kickstarter.com/ for possibly fundraising!

All-purpose game development threads are also available.

All-around good site with lots of articles on game development.

Free Tools/Engines

• Setting up repositories and collaboration spaces
• Google Sites
• Unreal Engine Documentation
• Processing - a good simple way to do lots of cool stuff fast
• Sound
• Freesound – Find any sound you’d like
• Audacity - audio editing software
• 2D Tools
• Gimp
• InkScape 
• 3D Tools
• Blender 
• Nevercenter 
• Autodesk 
• 2D / 3D Art Assets
• Game dev net 
• Photos
• flickr - turn on creative commons search flag
• Engines
• What free, 2D game engine should I use?
• Unreal Engine for students
• Box2D 
• Love2D 
• 2D Boy 
• Unity 
• QuArK
• Blender 
• Orge 3D 

Check out the following links to learn more about various technologies in game development.  This page will be updated often, so revisit for more information.

• User Interface (HUD) Development
• http://www.swtor.com/news/blog/20110429
• Artificial Intelligence
• http://eis.ucsc.edu/ (including Starcraft and Mario bot/world AI)
• 3D modeling & art
• Autodesk 
• CG Society 
• CG Channel 
• CG Trader 
• A great set of interviews from industry folks on the role of the technical artist
• GECK (Fallout 3 Development)
• Gamemaker Examples
• Tutorials 
• Unreal Engine Examples
• Unreal Learning Kit: Games
• free UDK Unreal Development Kit 
• Torque Examples
• Torque 3D 
• Blender Examples
• Education Tutorials 
• Tutorials 
• Havok Examples
• Deans Director Tutorials 

Programming in General

• Excellent XNA and C# material: http://www.csharpcourse.com/
• Threading in C#: http://www.albahari.com/threading/ 

Another good clearinghouse of articles: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html.

A good site with some nice articles on AI: http://robert.zubek.net/publications/index.html 

Quality Assurance Tools

• CPAchecker
• Spin
• SLAM
• KLEE
• PMD 

Topics and Technologies

• Android Wear Development
• PaaS (Platform as a Service): Google App Engine, Amazon EC2/Beanstalk
• Cloud DBs: MongoDB, Google DataStore, Amazon SimpleDB
• Generators: GWT, Dart, Typescript
• Graph DBs: Neo4J, FlockDB
• Web Testing Tools: Selenium/Webdriver, Apache JMeter
• Web application debuggers: Chrome DevTools, Fiddler/WebScarab proxy
• Libraries: jQuery, Dojo
• Event-driven IO based: NodeJS
• Programming microcontrollers: mbed LPC1768 - used in home automation, robot navigation, and networking
• GitHub

CSE 1321/1322 Programming and Problem Solving I & II: See FYE Section.