Links

Featured Links

• 1&1 Domain Names
  .co.uk domain names from £2.99 per year!
• Aspex Design - Free graphics files (PSP, photography, backgrounds etc) resource and more.
  Free Graphics, Pages and pages of Photos, Paint shop pro picture frames, Clipart, Windows backgrounds, Poems, 3D Animated gifs, Robots, Rangoli, Sign language, Tutorials plus so much more, all original designs and all 100% free!
• Cobra Programming Language
  Cobra is a new programming language, designed specifically with the independent games developer in mind. It combines an easy and intuitive language with a host of features and special effects that will allow you to rapidly create games that are easy to play and stunning to watch!
• D-Grafix Design
  A useful archive for Games Programmers and 3D Artists, featuring tools, models and textures etc. both for free and for extremely reasonable prices.
• Linode - Xen VPS Hosting
  Full ssh and root access, starting with 512MB of RAM and 200GB bandwidth at $19.95
• Open Game Art - Free, legal art for open source game projects.
  The purpose of this site is to provide a solid (and hopefully ever-expanding) variety of high quality, freely licensed art, so that free/open source game developers can use it in their games.
• PreSound.net - New album releases direct to your e-mail inbox!
  PreSound.net is a website that helps you keep track of new music albums. Simply select your favourite artists; when they release a new album we will send you an e-mail. Easy!
• SoCoder - Programming forum
  A friendly programming forum for indie game developers.

Links for Game Developers

• Afr0 Games
  Afr0 Games is an internet-based independent software and game development company.
• /r/GameDev - Game Development Subreddit
  All things related to game development, programming, math, art, music, collaboration.
• Incompetech - Royalty-Free Music
  Huge collection of high-quality royalty-free music by Kevin MacLeod.
• Loopix Project
  Free skyboxes, textures, low-poly 3D trees, shrubs & other vegetation for your 3D Projects. Fantastic website - completely recommended!!!
• Nehe OpenGL Tuorials
  Fantastic OpenGL tutorials.
• OpenGL Tutorials from Swiftless' Game Programming Site
  Great help for getting started with OpenGL graphics in C++
• Psionic's 3D Game Resources
  Site full of 2D/3D tutorials, tonnes of free 3d game models, textures and SFX, active forums, and a whole lot more!
• An SVG Primer
  If you've ever tried to wade through the official SVG specification, this will be far more helpful!
• Toastytech Graphical User Interface Gallery
  Surprisingly large and thorough Graphical User Interface list, with timeline, screenshots, downloads, etc. Useful for ideas if you are working on your own GUI skins.
• Wotsit's Format
  The Programmer's File Format Collection. Detailed file formats and data formats for programmers. A large collection of programming resources with detailed information.

Links for Gamers

• Deaf Gamers
  Games and software reviewed from a deaf person's perspective.
• /r/Gaymers - LGBT Gaming Subreddit
  Gaymers is an inclusive community for LGBT and straight alliance redditors.
• Red Gear Productions
  Red Gear Productions offers free web services! Free logo, banner, and website creation, we also create and host forum based roleplaying games. Please come and join the community!

Stuff Worth Downloading

• Flo's Freeware
  A collection of freeware tools for Windows.
• Resource Hacker
  Resource Hacker^TM is a freeware utility for windows to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler.
• RoachFiend.com Firefox Extensions
  Some handy Firefox Extensions
• TinyApps.org
  An ageing catalogue of tiny, well-made software primarily for the Windows platform (though Palm and OS X pages also exist).
• XN Resource Editor
  XN Resource Editor is a free, powerful, fully featured resource editor and PE module explorer for Windows.
• XVI32
  XVI32 is a freeware hex editor for Windows

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