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• http://www.heise.de/netze/tools/imonitor-internet-stoerungen
• Ogre a few good reasons to use ogre, my favourite 3d-engine
• http://lua.org : my favourite scripting language
• http://sfz.sourceforge.net sfz : opensource spacegame (uses lugre, i am involved in this project)
• http://iris2.de iris2 : opensource 3d client for ultima-online, i am involved in the project (uses lugre, i am involved in this project))
• http://lugre.sourceforge.net lugre : opensource ogre+lua gamedev framework (i am involved in this project)
• http://slayradio.org : radio stream, remixes of c64, game music, most are freely redistributable (see http://remix.kwed.org/ )
• http://www.jamendo.com/de/tag/electro/  : jamendo : huge music repository under free licenses
• FreeArtSearch
• http://www.freegamedev.net  : FOSS-gamedev community

c++ libraries

• http://dclib.sourceforge.net/ - dlib C++ library
• http://tinytl.sourceforge.net/ - the Tiny Template Library
• http://loki-lib.sourceforge.net/ - Loki
• http://pocoproject.org/poco/info/index.html - POCO C++ Libraries
• http://pantheios.sourceforge.net/ - Pantheios
• http://fastformat.sourceforge.net/ - FastFormat - The best C++ output/formatting library you'll ever use.
• http://www.pixeltoaster.com/ - PixelToaster
• http://research.microsoft.com/sn/detours/ - Detours
• http://torjo.com/log2/index.html - Boost Logging Lib, v2
• http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html - The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment
• http://billbaxter.com/projects/imdebug/ - The Image Debugge

blender

• http://members.chello.nl/j.kassenaar/blender/hotkeys/index.htm hotkeys
• http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/05/media-preston-blairs-animation-first.html
• http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/05/media-preston-blairs-animation-1st.html

friends

• http:schattenkind.net project list of a few friends and myself
• zwischenwelt browsergame
• hagish
• http://crankgaming.blogspot.com/ sience
• multi-weblog
• jan
• felix
• soro
• merlin
• elara
• ray
• n3
• uo-mittelerde
• isha
• tobi
• http://elementar.game-host.org elementar, rpg in perl by ishka
• http://www.xotus.de/ xotus, space browsergame in perl by ishka
• moe

code

• http://www.cakephp.org/ : webdev framework, php based alternative to Ruby on Rails (comparison rails_cake_django)
• http://www.networksorcery.com/ - network protocols
• http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent
• http://www.rants.org/2007/05/01/how-to-tell-that-software-patents-are-a-bad-idea/
• http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm
• How to Run a Successful Free Software Project
• java15api
• blender
• sourceforge
• code-suchmaschine
• STL Doku download
• STL Doku
• wotsit
• python_tut
• antispam
• geometrictools.com
• Collision 2D Tutorial (ngame)
• Tools Zum Entwickeln
• c++ referenz
• iostream referenz
• high-level cpp tuts (see writing)
• 3denginelist
• 3denginelist2
• win32 api (evil)
• http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2006-03.php CMU Sphinx opensource speech recognition
• character recognition!
• sqlite : c : http://www.sqlite.org/ c++ http://www.int64.org/sqlite.html
• lots of good books
• debunking-reasons-not-to-open-source
• http://enet.cubik.org/ network lib
• http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads svn client for win
• http://winmerge.org/downloads/index.php good graphical diff/merge app for win
• http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/ public domain wordlist, for name-generation, spellchecking, tagging...
• http://phlonx.com/resources/nf3/ A tutorial on the first 3 normal forms
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization
• http://gts.sourceforge.net/gallery.html GNU Triangulated Surface Library
• http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/data/3Dscanrep/ 3d depth-scan repository
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobby  : free software collaborative real-time editor
• http://irc.essex.ac.uk/www.iota-six.co.uk/c/ : c tutorials
• http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html
• http://diveintopython.org/index.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_execution
• http://www.fsf.org/resources/materials info material for spreading the word about free software
• http://www.golem.de/0801/57181.html intel latency-top profiling tool
• http://www.ultimatepp.org/src$CtrlLib$index$en-us.html ultimate++ : crossplatform gui similar to gtk and wxwidget
• http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=784 sinbad blogpost on branching and merging
• http://betterexplained.com/articles/intro-to-distributed-version-control-illustrated/ Distributed version control
  • http://darcs.net/ darcs
  • http://git.or.cz/ git
  • http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/ mercurial
• http://fcgp.sourceforge.net/ kernel graph
• http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/GetABacktrace debugging : how to get a backtrace + tipps
• http://opensourceofcourse.blogspot.com/2008/07/pencil.html blog about opensource
• http://www.advogato.org/ opensource mass blog
• http://nothings.org/ strange coder

security

• http://cve.mitre.org/ Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
• http://www.cert.org/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/
• http://www.avira.com/ antivirus free for private use
  • manual update http://forum.avira.com/thread.php?threadid=12073
• http://www.golem.de/0807/60869.html security leak in TNS allows access to private data of 41k germans
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/southern_counties/5382878.stm rfid gone wrong : dog eats car-key chip
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Joohx5t0JQ&feature=related a few tricks cirumventing windows security

unsorted

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming XServer for windows, putty -X (aktivate X11 forwarding in config)
• http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/93723 rfid security hole
• http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/NC (Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons Non-Commercial License)
• http://tango-project.org
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_one-click_hosters dozens of one-click-hosters like rapidshare
• http://irrepressible.info
• http://www.datenterrorist.de/index.php?itemid=690
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• pastafarianism (flying spaghetti monster) satire of religion posing as sience, e.g. creationism
• http://leenox.de/wiki leenox wiki, tips and tricks for linux (mainly german)
• rhythmbox (music-player) with jamendo plugin (creative commons musik)
• http://www.jamendo.com/de/tag/electro/ jamendo : huge music repository under free licenses
• streamtuner  : stream directory browser
• http://space.com
• http://www.free-av.de/ (avira, free antivirus for win)
• http://cia.vc/ (irc-bot that posts version control information live)
• http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ (help scientists catalogue spiral galaxies)
• http://www.librivox.org/ audio-books in public domain
• http://geany.uvena.de/ (ide, potentielle basis fuer snafuide?)
• http://clustrmaps.com/ (free(nocost) visitor world map)
• http://www.ip2map.com/ ?
• http://www.scenemusic.net/howto.php c64 music ?
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6320865.stm vista speech recognition security hole
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7183008.stm warning : windows rootkit virus : IE vulnerabilities
• apt-get install zim (offline wiki like program)
• http://thefreedesktop.blogspot.com/ (freegamer related)
• http://www.charlesgoodwin.co.uk/ (freegamer related)
• http://www.animationnation.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=002071;p= (photorealistic skulptures)
• http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/compare_linux.mspx
• http://www.deviantart.com/
• http://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html (prevents-tivoization (DRM), anti sw-patent (e.g. Novell-Microsoft deal))
• http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/rob-myers-critique-of-open-source/2007/08/25
• http://unixgamedev.blogspot.com/2007/08/rob-myers-interesting-pov-on-open.html
• http://flohofwoe.blogspot.com/ blog of maindev from Nebula engine
• http://www.radonlabs.de/internal/n3talk_gcdc07.zip gc07 talk held by maindev from Nebula engine
• http://einstellung.so36.net/en/openletter (germany, paragraph 129a : scientists=terrorists)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truecrypt (on-the-fly harddisk encryption)
• http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=103633 Open Material Repository Automation Script v0.1
• http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/rob-myers-critique-of-open-source/2007/08/25
• http://ebonrai.com/ kaelis blog
• http://www.stevestreeting.com/ ogre maindev blog
• http://deviantart.com/
• http://lostgarden.com/2007/09/celestial-music.html music creation table with cam technology
• http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all language benchmarks
• http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html
• http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~celes/tolua/ tolua
• http://www.codenix.com/~tolua/ tolua++
• http://www.theprodukkt.com/ http://www.farbrausch.com/ farbrausch, 64kb demos etc
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgNfqYf_C_Q kkrieger
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Eg3dBnsHk .debris
• http://games.slashdot.org/
• http://thedailywtf.com/
• http://www.golem.de/0709/54901.html realtime raytracing : quake4 with 90 fps on 8-core machine
• http://www.silverex.info/download/
• http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html xampp : easy MySQL+PHP setup for win and linux
• http://fudforum.org/download.php fudforum
• http://www.swig.org/ cross language porting stuff (supports lua,python,...)
• http://www.majusarts.de/film/monkey/ monkey island flash movie
• http://www.wpdev.org/wiki/index.php/List_of_Features RPG featurelist/ things you can do
• http://oldworld.de/?page=regeln&bereich=shardfeatures&klasse=misc more RPG feature list (german)
• http://ogre3d.de german ogre forum
• http://www.boardgamegeek.com/ board games
• http://www.7-zip.org win app that can unpack most formats
• http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news-betavoltaic-10.1.html laptop battery with 30 years runtime might be available in stores within 3 years (e.g. 2010)
• 3rd party software not tolerated : Altered iPhones Freeze Up
• http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
• http://www.planetplanet.org/ : feed syndicate : multiple blogs#
• http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/demowar.htm wars between democracies
• http://manybooks.net ebooks
• http://ebooks.katz.cd/ ebooks
• http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7275 graphviz tutorial
• http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/resize/ imagemagick resizing / thumbnail generation
• http://www.golem.de/0710/55574.html distributed password breaking (german article)
• http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ scientific papers
  • similar sites on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citeseer
• http://arxiv.org/ scientific astro infos : preprint server
• http://gwlp.mgcorp.org/ guild wars LAN project
• http://www.oswd.org/ Open Source Web Design
• http://www.reason.com/
• Craigs List
• http://www.escapistmagazine.com
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomboy_%28software%29 tomboy : mix between text-editor and lokal wiki.
• http://www.iptools.com/ url/dns lookup , whois , tracert...
• http://www.hackaday.com tricks with hardware
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HURD gnu kernel replacement, not yet finished
• http://www.drowtales.com/ drow=dark-elf fantasy , lots of webcomics
• http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/~frosal/docs/25mdq.html job interview : 25 most difficult questions
• http://www.zareason.com/shop/home.php preconfigured ubuntu laptops etc
• http://microdisco.de
• http://www.featuredrivendevelopment.com/
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7126902.stm bugged vista anti-piracy software disables legally bought versions
• http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=y2cXrS0Xysw xmas lighting (australia, kaelis)
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7144970.stm google starts wikipedia-like project
• http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page SystemRescueCd
• http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/2007/12/the_cardinality_of_a_fluent_in.php beautiful code blog
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation non-profit advocacy, free speech
• http://www.hydrairc.com/ (opensource irc for win)
• http://www.phorum.org/ forum software (golem article)
• WarCraft3 Notes
• http://recaptcha.net/ anti-spam and helps digitizing books
• http://www.arg0.net/encfs linux dir encryption without loopback (eg. good for home dir)
• http://www.aquafold.com/ programm like phpmyadmin, for mysql-admin stuff (newest version is commercial, but older versions are free)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_marketing
• http://www.golem.de/0801/57185.html microsoft describes how to avoid automatic ie6->7 update (sounds rather dirty)
• http://www.chip.de/downloads/TweakUI-1.33_12993589.html tweakui for win (v1.33, newer versions don't work, autocompletion for win shell)
• http://youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww creepy robot walker
• http://www.ted.com/ interesting talks and presentations
• http://www.keygenmusic.net/?page=pack/packlist&lang=en oldschool computer music
• http://www.nyc2123.com/ webcomic-cyberpunkt-opensource
• http://goosh.org/ google shell
• http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/ shell-stubs for interpreting some big web-services
• http://debaday.debian.net/
• http://www.geekblogger.de/?p=203 starwars floppy
• http://vivapinkfloyd.blogspot.com/2008/07/9-file-managers-for-linux.html different linux filemanagers
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kbe8XBdgr4 strong underestimations of todays standard technologies.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SoZzlgQzHM funny jap music video
• http://www.heise.de/netze/tools/imonitor-internet-stoerungen/ internet provider störungsmeldungen

maps

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openstreetmap , ccc (chaos computer club)
  • http://www.golem.de/0801/56753.html golem news OpenStreetMap
  • kite + digicam
    • http://www.kite-aerial-photography.de/
    • http://www.dopero.de/Eingang/Kite_Aerial_Photography/kite_aerial_photography.html
    • http://members.chello.at/luftbilder/
    • http://www.drachenforum.net/forum/showboard.php?id=65

opensource mobile/wirless software

• http://www.openmoko.org/
• http://code.google.com/android
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/technology/05cnd-gphone.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin google open wireless
• german : OpenMoko wird Tochter von FIC  : http://www.golem.de/0801/56781.html
• http://www.golem.de/0801/56841.html Trolltech tritt LiMo (linuxmobile) foundation bei (german article)

3d printing

• http://www.pro-fit.de/ (sience : free prototype for license to create models, or pay and keep)
  • http://www.pro-fit.de/download/Readme.pdf
• http://fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page home factory, 3dprint
• plaster mold (heat resistant)
• http://www.hirstarts.com/moldmake/moldmaking.html

police state politics

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6979138.stm UK wants dna of whole population and visitors
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7069796.stm UK police kills innocent man with 7 shots : mistaken for suicide bomber
• http://einstellung.so36.net/en/openletter (german professor jailed, english)
• http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/ 9.11.2007 : constitutional right for "secrecy of telecommunications" abandoned, data retention law passed, german+english
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7103566.stm UK-government "looses" disks with personal data of 25mio people
• http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/99119/from/atom10 freedom of speech suppressed in germany (police demands ip adresses of forum for jobless people)
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7102180.stm UK Police demands animal-rights groups to give out encryption keys
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7132000.stm CIA interrogation-torture tapes erased to obstruct court
• https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/3173 TrackMeNot : plugin sending random search queries to avoid profiling
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7266543.stm German court limits cyber spying

articles in german

• http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt1m2/deutschland/artikel/574/122408/ german constitution minister demands preemptive killing of terrorist, german
• http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/94190 (security tools like nmap illegal, german)
• http://www.golem.de/0712/56739-2.html vorratsdatenspeicherung (german)
• http://www.golem.de/0801/56763.html australia building "great firewall" like china ? (german article)
• http://www.golem.de/0801/56777.html surveillance politics as global trend (german article)
• http://monochrom.at critical art (german)
• http://www.golem.de/0801/56786.html (german)
• http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/content/370210?inPopup=true (german)
• http://www.golem.de/0801/56806.html china forbids internet-video
• http://www.golem.de/0706/52781.html CCC: Wahlcomputer sind prinzipiell unsicher
• http://www.golem.de/0801/56843.html CCC will Wahlcomputer per Gerichtsbeschluss stoppen
• http://www.golem.de/0801/56944.html simkarten-tausch für zwecks anonymität
• http://www.golem.de/0801/56995.html überwacht die überwacher, aktion in östereich
• http://www.golem.de/0801/57123.html Bayern ignoriert Bundesverfassungsgericht
• http://www.golem.de/0801/57144.html Musikindustrie will EU-Schutzfristen verlängern
• http://www.golem.de/0803/58125.html us secret service monitors behavior in onlinegames to identify potiential terrorists

anonymizer

• free : http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index.html
• free : http://www.torproject.org/
  • http://www.torrify.com/ browser with tor included
• costs : https://www.relakks.com/?cid=gb
• costs : http://www.trackbuster.com/
• costs : https://www.steganos.com/de/products/siavpn/
• costs : https://www.nutzwerk.de/safersurf/

anti-censorship

• http://www.your-freedom.net/ mentioned on bbc article about burma
• http://glite.sayni.net/ mentioned on bbc article about burma
• http://opennet.net/ mentioned on bbc article about burma
• http://www.rsf.org/ mentioned on bbc article about burma

• 
• Google's China Problem (and China's Google Problem)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_firewall#Bypassing

filesharing

• http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/11/215251&from=rss canada won't persecute filesharing for private use
• http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-shuts-down-again-071109/ demonoid shut down
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7110024.stm france anti-piracy laws
• http://meprogrammer.blogspot.com/2007/12/dont-buy-western-digital-hard-drives.html (DRM, handcuffware, prevents sharing of media files even if you made them yourself)
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7153323.stm torrentspy looses in court
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7162280.stm warner music download without copy protection in mp3 format
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Film ( also on google video )
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay#May_2006_police_raid
• http://alluc.org
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS anti-drm ?
• http://techdirt.com/articles/20071228/161917.shtml How Pursuing Software Piracy Hurts Proprietary Software Firms
• http://www.golem.de/0801/56851.html Napster will Musik ohne Kopierschutz verkaufen (german)
• http://defectivebydesign.org/ anti-DRM
• http://badvista.fsf.org/ anti-vista
• http://www.golem.de/0801/56892.html (german article) great britain considers legalizing private-copies
• http://www.golem.de/0801/56911.html (german article) music indistry failed in court agains liability for connection owners
• http://www.golem.de/0801/57183.html (german article) music associations accept creative commons licensing
• http://www.golem.de/0801/57316.html (german article) GEMA gegen Rapidshare
• http://www.popolodellarete.it/showthread.php?t=5874 (lyrics for Doc - Piece of Music)
• http://nix-pop.org/ music download ??
• http://schlagz.ath.cx/ music download ??
• http://www.golem.de/0804/59321.html (drm problems, german article)

conspiracy related

• http://zeitgeistmovie.com/ google video
• http://www.911inplanesite.com/ google video followup google video
• search for icke, flynn, tsarion, dr deagle / deaglew , maxwell
• "ENDGAME: Blueprint for Global Enslavement" by Alex Jones (see youtube : http://www.endgamethemovie.com/alttrailer.html )
• http://digg.com/linux_unix/Foxconn_deliberately_sabotaging_their_BIOS_to_destroy_Linux

installer,packaging,distribution

• http://www.autopackage.org/

games

• http://triachnid.com/
• http://www.ifi.lmu.de/studium-medieninformatik/galerie/mmp-ss06/group3.xhtml
• http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/ (opensource spacegame, similar to wingcommander)
• http://marathon.sourceforge.net/ (old fps i used to play, now opensource, "marathon aleph one")
• http://hellbent-game.com/ (looks fun, but haven't tried it yet)
• http://openlierox.sourceforge.net/ (worms like pixel-carnage)
• http://iworx5.webxtra.net/~lxallian/LXRS/ lierox
• http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/blades/opensource.html (exile:old rpg is used to play)
• http://freeciv.wikia.com/
• http://freedoom.sourceforge.net/ (doom-based)
• http://funguloids.sourceforge.net/ (funny little spacegame)
• http://www.allegro.cc/depot/project.php?_id=1550 (overgod, arcade shooter)
• http://www.wormux.org/ (worms clone)
• http://www.ufoot.org/old/liquidwar/ (liquid war)
• http://sauerbraten.org/ fps
• http://icculus.org/alienarena/rpa/ alienarena, fps
• http://bloodfrontier.com/Main_Page bloodfrontier, fps ?
• http://eisenstern.com/ fps rpg auf sauerbraten
• http://www.alientrap.org/index.php?module=zymotic zymotic : singleplayer fps (by the guys that also make tremolous)
• http://www.warsow.net/ fps
• http://www.abandonia.com/games/ (abandonware, old games)
• http://www.the-underdogs.info/ (abandonware, old games)
• http://www.castlecrashers.com/media.html castlecrashers, arcade
• http://www.wolf-359.de/ (closed sourc elite based space game, vapor so far)
• http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/ free flight simulator, no shooter, emphasis is on realism
• http://www.ohloh.net/projects/6065 Galactic Fall (pre-alpha, escape velocity remake, dev:hagen contacted me on sfz-irc)
• http://kahvipapu.com/blog/2007/06/16/linux-gaming-part-one-first-person-shooters/ linux first person shooters
• http://kahvipapu.com/blog/2007/06/19/linux-gaming-part-two-strategy-games/ linux strategy games 1
• http://kahvipapu.com/blog/2007/06/21/linux-gaming-part-three-strategy-games-continued/ linux strategy games 2
• http://kahvipapu.com/blog/2007/06/26/linux-gaming-part-four-massive-multiplayer-online-games/
• http://tremulous.net/screenshots/ linux : team based FPS with elements of an RTS (buildings)
• http://alientrap.org/nexuiz/ linux FPS
• http://onyx.jwgames.org/ no-cost but closed source linux spacegame
• http://www.globulation2.org/
• http://wwwcs.uni-paderborn.de/~propra//tauber1/
• http://xoops.widelands.org/modules/frontpage/ (widelands)
• http://pio.sourceforge.net/
• http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=159241#159241 (ogre game, a blob of color has to paint the city, cool, singleplayer only)
• http://www.wesnoth.org/ (very cool 2d strategy game, with campaign mode for singleplayer !!!!)
• http://supertuxkart.berlios.de/ (racing game, no network multiplayer, only hot-seat)
• http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/downloads.php (3d artillery with funny weapons)
• http://icculus.org/neverball/#download
• http://scourge.sourceforge.net/ (rpg)
• http://spring.clan-sy.com/download.php (strategy with good graphics) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y5IMq6u4hc)
  • rocket exhaust screenshot
• http://www.warsow.net/ (first person shooter, cartoonshader)
• http://dungeondigger.sourceforge.net/ (dungeon master remake)
• http://www.nooskewl.com/monster/ (ff-like game)
• http://www.bzflag.org/ (multiplayer tank game)
• http://dangerdeep.sourceforge.net/ (submarine sim)
• http://btanks.sourceforge.net/eng/ (tank game, coop multiplayer ???)
• http://www.nongnu.org/construo/ (similar to bridge-builder)
• http://www.secretmaryo.org/
• http://www.fl-tw.com/Infinity/ it's vapourware and nonfree and has insane hardware requirements, but i have to admit it is pretty
• http://www.cubeengine.com/ fps
• http://bttotalcontrol.sourceforge.net/ BattleTech: Total Control
• http://code.google.com/p/irrlamb/ (marble-like game in 3d)
• http://www.salvationprophecy.com/index.php
• http://arkhart.nekeme.net/en/?name=Home
• http://nifflas.ni2.se/index.php?main=02Knytt_Stories platform game for win
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/opengate/ remake of the game Jumpgate using OGRE (using some of my pd skyboxes =D)
• http://mechmod.sourceforge.net mech simulation, halflife2 mod
• http://tnlgame.net/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
• http://ufo2000.sourceforge.net/ xcom remake (focused on multiplayer)
• http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/ xcom remake (focused on singleplayer)
• http://ja2.dragonriders.de/screens.html
• http://smw.72dpiarmy.com/ super mario war (opensource)
• http://www.asciisector.net/scrnshot.html privateer in asci art remake, dosbox, closedsrc
• http://amber.worldforge.org/ember/screenshots/
• http://www.jmp.fi/~smaarane/urw.html screenshots roguelike survivor, win, closedsrc
• http://wolfire.com/lugaru.html lugaru : 3d beat-em up with ragdoll physics featuring rabbits
• http://rageofwar.net/ spacegame, irrlicht engine
• http://www.thelegacy.de/Museum/5839/ old amiga spacegame, nonfree, whales voyage
• http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ Dwarf Fortress : closed source, asci art, roguelike survivor, build and manage fortress
• http://freedsa.schattenkind.net/ freedsa remake, early in development, see forum thread, uses our lugre framework
• http://home.no.net/egoboo/ egoboo resurrection forum
• http://www.aaronbishopgames.com/ soulfu linux port forum thread
• http://csp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page combat flight sim
• http://www.silvertreerpg.org/
  • old : http://www.jwbjerk.com/silvertree/ silvertree : wesnoth in 3d ? rpg ?
• http://www.via2b.com/iteam/index.asp iteam
• http://radakan.org/ FOSS (incl media) Radakan is a single-player sandbox 3D RPG, in a dynamic and dark fantasy world.
• http://www.peragro.org/ fg Peragro Tempus : Peragro Tempus is a multiplayer online role-playing game with a persistent world, which evolves according to nature and its inhabitants
• http://rrgbis.sourceforge.net/ unfinished spacegame
• http://www.nevrax.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php Nel gpl mmorpg
• http://www.palomino3d.org/ FOSS flightsim
• http://www.1729.com/math/integers/PrimeShooter.html primeshooter (simple but kinda fun and good math-training)
• http://transcend.sf.net retro-style, abstract, 2D shooter.
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/foth/ Fate of the Heroines FOSS hentai
• http://axem.boo.pl/maxem/ bomberman clone
• http://njam.sourceforge.net/ pacman clone
• http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/blobWars.php jump&run/platformer
• http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=Barrage click enemies dead
• http://www.sixthfloorlabs.com/projects/alexandria/ sidescroller
• http://www.a-astra.com/index.htm ad astra : spacegame, not FOSS; but free to play, procedural, real star catalog...
• http://www.openfrag.org/ FOSS FPS
• http://babylon.hard-light.net/gallery1.php babylon spacegame based on freespace2 (opensource ?)
• http://www.openlancer.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=54 openlancer : FOSS freelancer,elite,.. clone community project, no screenshots yet, inactive/dead ? vaporware...
• http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3231&start=165 OOLite  : FOSS spacegame, was quiet but came back to live
• http://www.silvae.net/sundog/ FOSS spacegame, sundog revival
• http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Scum%20of%20the%20Universe : Space trading game with arcade shooting
• http://happypenguin.org/show?Iter%20Vehemens%20Ad%20Necem roguelike
• http://openc2e.ccdevnet.org/ (creatures engine)
• http://www.forsakenplanet.tk/ (opensourced september 07, looks similar to the descent series)
• http://happypenguin.org/newsitem?id=7958 hedgewars, worms clone(linux)
• http://xreal.varcache.org/screenshots/ xreal, enhanced quake projectpage
• http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/ eat-all flashgame : flow
• http://triachnid.com/ spider-climb flashgame: triachnid
• http://vortex-game.sourceforge.net/ foss-spacegame,ogre,lua,cegui,incomplete
• http://www.zincland.com/powder/index.php?pagename=release powder, roguelike
• http://www.attnam.com/wiki/ ivan, roguelike
• http://fantasticcontraption.com/ physics flashgame
• http://www.tigsource.com/features/games1-10.html some indie games

gamedev and lists

• http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nvperfhud_home.html nvidia performance analysis / 3d profiler. partially for linux as well ?
• http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=msg&th=1619 MMORPG autoreply
  • http://sol.gfxile.net/mmorpg.html mmorpg autoreply
• http://www.wiili.org/index.php/Main_Page
• [1] Dev.Mag
• happypenguin.org
• holarse.net
• linux.strangegamer.com
• http://linux.strangegamer.com/index.php?title=Linux_Gaming_Sites list of linux gaming sites
• http://www.linuxgamingworld.com/
• http://freegamer.blogspot.com free software gaming blog & forum
• technical LinkList (mirror)(3d articles, content repositories,...)
• http://sfz.schattenkind.net/wiki/index.php/Links sfz linklist
• nehe opengl tuts
  • http://jerome.jouvie.free.fr/OpenGl/Tutorials1-5.php (a bit java specific, but the basics are explained)
  • http://fly.srk.fer.hr/~unreal/theredbook/ redbook (opengl programming guide)
• gamedev.net sub-forum open for announcements
• developia
• galaxynews bg
• gameprogrammwiki1
  • http://gpwiki.org/index.php/Links
• gameprogrammwiki2
• http://freegames.wiki.taoriver.net/moin.fcg/WikiNode
• http://www.twilighthalls.de/gpwiki/index.php/WikiNode
• http://www.ludism.org/gamedesign/WikiNode
• http://www.indiegamejam.com/
• http://www.gnomefiles.org/category.php?cat_id=3 gnome games
• http://www.kde.org/kdegames/ KDE games
• http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Games/ LinuxLinks game directory
• http://freshmeat.net/browse/80/ FreshMeat game directory
• http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=80 SourceForge game directory
• http://gaming.foundries.sourceforge.net/ SourceForge game foundry
• http://www.ggzgamingzone.org/ "GGZ Gaming Zone". Client & server system to enable Internet gaming.
• http://www.linuxgames.com/
• http://www.linux-gamers.net/
• http://debianlinux.net/games.html debian gamelist
• http://gaming.gwos.org/news.php ubuntu gamers arena
• http://www.ubuntugames.org/en/UbuntuGames
• http://linuxlinks.com/Software/Games/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_games
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_software_games
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_gaming
• http://www.freebsd.org/ports/games.html
• http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/
• http://games.kde.org/
• http://packages.gentoo.org/categories/
• http://www.igf.com/ Independent Games Festival
• http://lostgarden.com gamedev/art blog
• http://network-games.eu.org/ open source multiplayer game hoster + community
• http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html
• http://www.robocrow.com/?q=node/9
• http://www.getdeb.net/ ubuntu software portal : games
• http://liberatedgames.com/gamelisting.php : freeware games
• http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1524/the_chemistry_of_game_design.php?print=1 (article by the lost garden blogger)
• http://lostgarden.com/2007/10/constructing-artificial-emotions-design.html
  • http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1992/constructing_artificial_emotions_.php
• http://www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/general/multiplayer_networking.html (article about multiplayer)
• https://launchpad.net/
• http://libertygaming.blogspot.com/2007/07/ultimate-resource-list-for-game-hackers.html
• http://www.rpgwatch.com/files/Files/00-0208/Torment_Vision_Statement_1997.pdf design document sample (planescape torment)
• http://ubuntu-gamedev.wikispaces.com/
• * http://www.liflg.org/ (loki installer project for linux gaming)
• http://www.autopackage.org/
• http://www.gamershell.com/
• http://www.holarse-linuxgaming.de/h2006/space/Open-Source-Spiele (german)
• http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2001/01/free-games-list.html
• http://www.devmaster.net/articles/openal-tutorials/lesson1.php
• making ubuntu packages
• http://zeroflag.de/sage/ asynchronous game engine in c#
• http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mburo/orts/orts.html ORTS Free Software RTS Game Engine
• http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/
• http://ghoulsblade.schattenkind.net/wiki/index.php/Ogre
• http://en.akella.com/Files/Games/24/video/Heavy.avi video : "heavy duty" : closed game, but with realtime planet and inverse kinematics
• http://idiki.dyne.org/wiki/Main_Page idea wiki
• systems like steam from valve : content distribution (see OpenFrag) and community/im ingame : http://www.ebonrai.com/2007/11/valves-steam-and-possibilities-for-open.html
• http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php Ubuntu gamers area
• http://libregamewiki.org/Main_Page
• http://gemrb.sourceforge.net/ Infinity Engine emulator (sience is involved a bit here)
• http://luaforge.net/projects/luasdl/ lua SDL wrapper
• http://3dengine.flodihn.com/index.php/Main_Page flodihn's ogre project, very early in development
• http://ecocomics.org/game.html gamelist
• http://wiiuse.net/ lib to use the wii controls , see also wminput / cwiid
  • pcWiiMote www.wiili.org http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
• http://www.spielen-unter-linux.de german linux gaming forum
• http://linuxlookup.com/2007/aug/08/the_problem_on_linux_foss_game_development
• http://unixgamedev.org (forum+wiki+blog)
• http://games.kde.org/people.php  : people/project database + searching
• http://icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php
• http://lgdc.sunsite.dk/ linux game development central (abandoned in 2002 as it seems)
• http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/linuxprogramming1/ article : linux gamedev : Introduction
• http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/linuxprogramming2/ article : linux gamedev : Distributable Binaries
• http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/linuxprogramming3/ article : linux gamedev : Installers
• http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/linuxprogramming4/ article : linux gamedev : Testing
• http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/linuxprogramming5/ article : linux gamedev : Marketing and Distribution
• http://wiki.freegamedev.net/index.php/Portable_binaries
• http://lgames.sourceforge.net/
• http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/WesnothReviews a list of websites that reviewed the FOSS game wesnoth, so good places to advertise
• http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/wiki/Links:Free_Games
• http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/gamedesigns/index.html
• http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com/
• irc.freenode.net : #freegamer #gametome #linuxgames
• http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1979/defining_games_raph_kosters_game_.php game grammer : terminology for game design
• http://stephanebura.com/diagrams/ A Game Grammar (diagrams)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Live online multiplayer gaming and content delivery service (voicechat, friends list, messaging)
• https://gopedia.gopetslive.com/twiki/pub/GoPedia/EriksCorner/ProfessionalComputerGamesTrainingThai3.ppt the game development survival test
• http://www.opengameforge.org open game dev community, relatively unknown so far ? (openlancer+openfrag)
• http://www.opengameforge.org/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,85/board,20.0/ opengameforge linklist / ressourcelist
• http://www.moddb.com/tutorials/24591/the-modular-release-model (release-early-and-often tipps)
• http://openfrag.org/forum/viewthread/1365 lots of interesting links
• http://freeroleplay.org/ (non-computer : miniature gaming system on which kaelis is working on)
• http://www.angelcode.com/
• http://www.devmaster.net/
• http://www.scibotic.com/ (opensource related)
• http://developer.download.nvidia.com/GPU_Programming_Guide/GPU_Programming_Guide.pdf GPU_Programming_Guide.pdf
• http://www.vertexbuffer.com/ CPU and GPU Optimization for Video Games
• http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ license : WTFPL
• http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/archives/001307.php motivation assessment test (find out what you like about games, e.g. exploring, ingame achievement...)
• http://mirror1.cvsdude.com/trac/fife/engine/wiki/2008/01/07/13.51 FIFE contacted "Software Freedom Law Center", interesting for art in GPL projects
• http://www.saucethegame.com/ gamedev-video reports about opensource games ?
• http://packman.links2linux.org/category/games-fun
• http://www.toolkitzone.com/ opensource ?
• http://www.devbump.com/
• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=699332 script to launch games in their own x server
• GPU Gems for free online http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=765
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPm-WR_AWZY cool phys tankgame (Bram Stolk's Howitzer)
• http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=msg&th=1184 grumbel's human face drawings (for comm dialogs etc)
• http://www.squidi.net/three/ three hundred mechanics
• http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/06/nitty-gritty-shit-on-open-source.html linux-hater : use nvidia rather than ati
• demystifying-the-art-of-video-games
• http://www.physicseditor.com/ physicseditor
• http://www.linuxforen.de/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=27 german linux forum : games section
• http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php

content distribution and gaming community systems like steam

• http://mapcore.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10118&highlight=
• Kongregate
• kaelis : http://www.ebonrai.com/2007/11/valves-steam-and-possibilities-for-open.html
• mockup (sindwiller) : http://flickr.com/photos/8033270%40N05/1205469480/
• mockup (sindwiller) : http://flickr.com/photos/8033270%40N05/1168070901/
• i think the http://www.openfrag.org/ project was working on something called smoke (or OpenCDS ?), but only for distribution (content delivery), and probably not very useful
  • http://openfrag.org/forum/viewthread/1340
• http://goim2.sphene.net
  • see also xfire (not opensource)
• http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=msg&th=1181 Video games specific video hosting services

linux installing,packaging

• http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/linuxprogramming3/ installers
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base (not very popular, bad?)
• http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html

commercial opensource

• http://www.theoretic.com/projects/ransom (develop something and release it as opensource after collecting money)
  • http://lwn.net/Articles/257457/ example  : Linux Game Company : goal : collect 40k
• http://cofundos.org/index.php (bounty : collect money to request something)
• http://www.fundable.org/
• http://flouzo.net/
• http://www.linuxfund.org/

video capturing and editing

• glc : http://nullkey.ath.cx/projects/glc/ http://nullkey.ath.cx/projects/glc/wiki/HowtoInstall article on freegamer
  • http://archlinux.org/static/newsletters/newsletter-2008-Jul-07.html#gaming usage hints
• http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org/about.php apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop : video capture tool for linux
• istanbul - Desktop session recorder producing Ogg Theora video
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinelerra apt-get install cinelerra : video editing tool for linux
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_editing_software
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_editing_software
  • for linux : blender,Cinelerra,FORscene,LiVES,Kdenlive,MainActor
• forum thread : http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=msg&th=272

general linux news and links

(also useful for getting the word out)

• http://www.linux.com/
• http://www.linuxjournal.com/
• http://www.linuxtoday.com/
• http://lwn.net/
• http://lxer.com/
• http://www.newsforge.com/
• http://icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php
• http://www.icewalkers.com/
• http://www.linuxlinks.com/
• http://www.linux.org/apps/
• http://www.linuxsoftware.org/

social networking and bookmarking

• http://digg.com/
• http://www.stumbleupon.com/
• http://del.icio.us/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_software
• http://technorati.com/
• http://www.addthis.com/
• http://www.furl.net/
• http://www.freesoftwaretop.com/
• http://reddit.com
• social bookmark list : http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php
• http://www.facebook.com
  • bebo, friendster, MySpace : share pictures and messages
• Google OpenSocial
  • http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7061042.stm Microsoft buys 1.6% facebock stake for 240$
  • http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7070815.stm
  • http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7074235.stm MySpace joins OpenSocial
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7061641.stm bbc-vworld links
• http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/technology/05cnd-gphone.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin google wireless opensource phone
• paintchat (cooperative image editing)
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_chat ()
  • http://www.twiddla.com/
  • verse plugin for gimp : http://users.pandora.be/blendix/verse/
  • http://www.4chan.org/ imageboard for anonymous posting and discussion
• bookmarking at http://www.litec-computer.de (with javascript click url things)
  • http://www.icio.de/
  • http://www.folkd.com/
  • http://yigg.de/
  • http://www.linkarena.com/
  • http://www.simpy.com/
  • http://www.mister-wong.de/
  • http://www.yahoo.com/
  • http://www.spurl.net/
  • http://www.blinklist.com/
  • http://blogmarks.net/
  • http://www.diigo.com/
  • http://www.technorati.com/
  • http://www.newsvine.com/
  • http://www.blinkbits.com/
  • http://ma.gnolia.com/
  • http://smarking.com/
  •  !! http://www.google.com/ (some bookmarking support)
• bookmarking at golem.de
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-blogging

libs

• see also Ogre

content creation

• povray
• http://mapeditor.org/index.html "tiled" : generic 2d sprite/tilebased map/level editor (opensource,java)
  • http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net/ : generic 2d sprite/tilebase map/level editor
  • http://www.tilemap.co.uk/mappy.php
• http://www.mapzoneeditor.com/ (texture editor)
• http://www.makehuman.org/ (makehuman : generate and tweak 3d models for humans, see also http://www.dedalo-3d.com/)
• http://affuniverse.com/wiki/index.php?title=Texturing_Tutorial (texturing)
• http://wcjunction.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=49 (beginner, modles,textures?)
• http://www.gimpusers.com/ (gimp tuts)
• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/UV_Map_Basics (uvmapping,texturing)
• http://biorust.com/index.php?page=tutorial_detail&tutid=85 (uvmapping,texturing)
• http://blenderartists.org/forum/
• http://epsylon.rptd.ch/forum/viewtopic.php?t=204 [DE]Normgen for normalmap creation from high poly models
• http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/~cocidius/normalmap/ http://alientrap.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16725#16725 GIMP Normalmap Plugin
• http://alientrap.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10935#10935 Tutorial on normalmapping anorganic materials in Blender
• http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/External_Tutorials
• http://www.fxgen.org/ Open-source procedural texture generation tool (win only)
• http://www.koffice.org/krita/ Krita, an excellent program for digital drawing etc
• http://www.digikam.org/ DigiKam, the hardcore photo management software
• http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/models/m_perlin.htm perlin noise, procedural terrain generation, heightfield
• http://www.linux.com/feature/119212 interesting article about licensing
• http://www.linuxsampler.org/screenshots.html music creation ? (link by aliverius)
• http://gnu.ethz.ch/photos/ photos under artistic license
• http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/rob-myers-critique-of-open-source/2007/08/25 interesting article on art+freedom
• http://www.sharecg.com/v/12705/pdf/word-doc-tutorial/creating-textures-for-games-pt-2
• http://linux-sound.org/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_sequencer

• http://www.gnuart.net/ GNUart : Not exactly sure what it is, but it seems to have a bunch of photos and stuff covered under the GPL
• http://www.dedalo-3d.com/index.php?filename=SXCOL/makehuman/quickstart.html MakeHuman : a extremly impressive Blender script that allows you to build humans based on relativly parameters
• http://www.suurland.com/blueprints_archive.php www.suurland.com : a source for all kinds (buildings, cars, aircrafts, ships) of blueprints
• http://www.onnovanbraam.com/index.php?m=blueprints Onno van Baam : according to the side the largest collection of blueprints on the internet, ~4300
• http://www.fineart.sk/ Human Anatomy Pictures for Artists Online : Your one stop surce for human anatomy references for 3D and traditional artists. (commercial !)
• http://avia.russian.ee/index2.html Virtual Aircraft Museum blueprints and other reference for aircrafts
• http://www.animax.it/ Animax "The best texture resource!"
• http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/index.html Federation of American Scientists - Military Analysis Network a very usefull source for blueprints and pictures of aircrafts
• http://www.onwar.com/tanks/index.htm Second World War Armour blueprints and informations on second world war tanks
• http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/manatee/272/ Eduardospage tons of blueprints of aircrafts and aircraft markings
• http://www.missing-lynx.com/art_gallery.htm images (sideviews, blueprints) of WWII tanks
• http://pixelation.wayofthepixel.net/ pixelart
• http://allacrost.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Artwork_Standards allacrost artwork standard
• http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/ vectorizing web-app
• http://www.doga.co.jp/english/ (shareware, but might be interesting, "DoGA L-Series is a lego-style modeler, arranging preset parts together to create new models")
• http://sketchup.google.com/ google sketchup : easy to learn modelling software (free(no cost) version available)
• http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=249534&an=0&page=0#Post249534 (modeling for current generation hardware)
  • http://www.ericchadwick.com/examples/provost/byf1.html
  • http://www.ericchadwick.com/examples/provost/byf2.html
• "In contrast to the CC-SA 2.0 license, version 3.0 is considered to be compatible to the DFSG."
• http://peach.blender.org/index.php/nathans-rabbit-rigging-demo/ impressive blender 3d character animation video
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tYdS6rE-Sc from 5:45 : interesting mapediting idea, but closed engine.
• "Furthermore, one Paul Lalonde (http://neoptica.com/lalonde.html) visited my school a couple months ago and gave a presentation. At one point he said: 'it doesn't matter how many bells and whistles your game engine has, if you don't have tools, your game engine is useless." (
• http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=msg&th=532&start=0 tree creation with povray (for sprites mainly : Gilles Tran's tree macro)
• http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/dryad-010908.html offline tree model generation
  • http://dryad.stanford.edu/
• http://www.blendernation.com/2008/01/07/masonry-wizard-and-object-tiling-scripts/ blender stone wall script (castles,medieval)
• http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/ (video-to-model, siggraph)
• http://wikivid.com/index.php/GIMP gimptuts
• http://wikivid.com/index.php/Blender blendertuts
• http://www.blenderart.org/issues/
• http://arbaro.sourceforge.net/ tree generator arbaro (for povray, but can export, mentioned in blender magazine)
• http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=11 : some quite interesting threads with links to ressources
• interesting content submission system : http://www.gnome-look.org/
• http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/ pencil, cartoon/handdraw + animation tool
• http://www.synfig.org/Main_Page synfig, 2d anim tool (vectorbased?)
• http://www.blendernation.com/2008/07/26/cut-out-animation-in-blender/ cartoon anim in blender
• http://www.paultosca.com/makingofvarga.html modelling/normalmapping tut

shader programming

• http://www.lighthouse3d.com/opengl/glsl/
• http://wiki.delphigl.com/index.php/Tutorial_glsl (german)

forums

• http://blenderartists.org/forum/
• http://www.gameartisans.org/
• http://boards.polycount.net/ubbthreads.php
• http://www.game-artist.net/
• http://mapping-tutorials.de/forum/ german mapping community
• http://s49.deinprovider.de/ german mapping community
• http://mapcore.net/
• http://www.conceptart.org/
• http://forums.cgsociety.org

free content

• http://peaceloveandhappiness.org/?q=taxonomy/term/2 free fonts
• http://wiki.freegamedev.net/index.php/Free_3D_and_2D_art_and_audio_resources
• http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=msg&th=295 forum thread for links
• http://freegamearts.tuxfamily.org/
• http://debianlinux.net/multimedia.html#multimedia_data Debian Multimedia Data Archives (free content)
• http://lostgarden.com gamedev/art blog
• http://lostgarden.com/labels/free%20game%20graphics.html
• http://www.lostgarden.com/2006/07/more-free-game-graphics.html
• http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Free_Resources linklist in ogre wiki
• CC search
• OMN
• http://virtualworlds.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Wikiworlds: Open content wiki
• http://www.digitalboneyard.net/ Digital Boneyard: Dump your old stuff here :)
• http://www.bvhfiles.com/ Free bvh files: Motion capture data
• http://www.nordquistart.com/: Free Art for you
• http://ngplant.sourceforge.net/#screenshotanc
• http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/~luft/ivy_generator/ ivy-generator (visual)
• http://yorik.orgfree.com/greenhouse.html
• http://www.blender.org/download/resources/
• http://ghoulsblade.schattenkind.net/wiki/index.php/OldGfx (free old gfx and sounds from me, public domain)
• http://ghoulsblade.schattenkind.net/wiki/index.php/Povray (skyboxes, explosions, plasma shots, etc)
• http://freegamer.schattenkind.net/index.php?t=msg&th=213 motion capture data
• http://www.3drt.com/downloads.htm has a few free samples
• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcHost
• http://blender-archi.tuxfamily.org/Main_Page
• http://www.blender-materials.org/
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/ (images and videos, not neccessarily good for gamedev)
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:FAL
• http://spring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=12278&highlight=gpl ta-spring(RTS) initiative for free content
• http://over00.blogspot.com/2007/08/graphic-resources-for-games.html ressourcelist
• http://www.tellim.com/texture_cd/ in public domain according to http://www.blender.org/download/resources/
• content creation : many interesting tipps for blender related to gamedev : http://www.blender.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12567
• ftp://ftp.uniovi.es/pub/mirrors/avalon.viewpoint.com/ Avalon repository - models, textures, public domain
• http://www.esnips.com/profile/f49ffde0-525b-4ccd-8f4d-d246be32ebf5
• http://www.freewebs.com/blendermats/
• http://resources.blogscopia.com/index_en.html models, textures - CC-BY 3.0
• http://www.blendernation.com/2008/01/11/dbblender-at-mysql-conference-santa-clara-help-needed/ blender+mysql
• http://www.dafont.com/ many fonts under free licenses
• also interesting : mod-scene of games like quake,halflife,neverwinternights,oblivion they often produce many good models
• http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8163 8.5gb data from OLPC project under a CC BY license
• http://scifimeshes.com ? todo:check license
• http://love2d.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=20

2d gfx / pixelart

• http://rltiles.sourceforge.net/
• tilesets
• http://lostgarden.com/2007/05/cutegod-prototyping-challenge.html (free animee style game graphics)
• http://lostgarden.com/2007/04/free-game-graphics-tyrian-ships-and.html (1.3 mb of free high quality 2d space tiles)
• http://lostgarden.com/2005/03/game-post-mortem-hard-vacuum.html (fre 2d strategy gfx)
• http://openclipart.org/ , see also http://wpclipart.com/ and http://www.clker.com/ (better browsing/preview)
• http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/01/quest-complete-rpg-map-tileset.html rpg tiles

textures

• http://blender-archi.tuxfamily.org/Textures
• http://www.cgtextures.com/
• http://www.wolfiesden.com/golgotha/golgotha.asp golgotha textures
• http://repository.parastudios.de/ Blender Open Material Repository
• http://www.imageafter.com/textures.php
• http://www.burningwell.org/gallery2/v/textures/
  • http://www.burningwell.org/gallery2/main.php
• open arena has a nice repository for textures
• nexuiz has free(libre) textures
• http://www.planetscapes.com/maps/cylmaps.html planetmaps and models, most are "copyright-free"/public domain
• http://www.mercenariesguild.net/trak/node/3
• http://gnu.ethz.ch/photos/ photos that could be used as base
• http://www.morguefile.com/archive/ (license unsure?)

models

• http://www.e2-productions.com/bmr/ (aka http://e2-productions.com/repository/index.php) Blender 3D Model Repository: Stuff made with Blender3D
• Psionic's 3D Game Resources > Free 3D Models license similar to public domain
  • another page : http://www.psionic3d.co.uk/gallery/index.php
• LowPolyCoop open content + blog
• http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17532 (medieval things)
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/ogoglio creative commons licensed ?
• http://md2.sitters-electronics.nl/
• http://polycount.com/models/quake2/ (license ???)
• http://www.3dxtra.cygad.net/de/list/598/1.htm (license ???)

audio

• http://www.jamendo.com/ creative commons music
• http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
• http://ccmixter.org/ (sound?music?)
• http://www.opsound.org/
• http://www.findsounds.com/
• http://sounddogs.com
• http://www.flashkit.com/
• http://www.kde-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=25 kde sounds
• http://freewaresounds.com
• http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/ (CC-BY-NC-SA , sadly non-commercial -> not free as in speech)
• http://www.pdsounds.org/ public domain ?
• sfxr : http://www.imitationpickles.org/ludum/2007/12/13/sfxr-sound-effects-for-all/
• http://opsound.org/
• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sound_samples 10GB of CC-BY 3.0 sounds
• http://v-band.de/ Online Music Collaboration, might be some useful stuff here, but check licenses

hosting

free hosting for opensource projects or websites :

• http://sourceforge.net/
• http://www.berlios.de/
• http://code.google.com/hosting/
• http://savannah.gnu.org/ (very strikt to gnu stuff)
• https://gna.org/
• http://forge.novell.com/
• http://icculus.org/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_hosting_facilities
• http://www.wikia.com/
• http://freehostia.com/
• http://free-webhosts.com
• http://www.hostadfree.org/
• https://opensvn.csie.org/ (svn only)
• http://tuxfamily.org
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_farms
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiforums forums
  • http://www.myfreebulletinboard.com instant, but no auto-backup, has to be requested and is done manually...
• http://www.netcup.de (cheap php,mysql)

fun

• http://dockapps.org/ (linux dockapps)
• http://pbfcomics.com/ perry bible fellowship
• http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/?date=2003-11-30
• pixelmuseum?
• finalfantasygrafiken
• spynumbers(radiotransmissions)
• dailywtf
• liberatedgames.com

uni

• die-informatiker
• mathe-nachschlagewerk