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* http://cofundos.org/index.php (bounty : collect money to request something) | * http://cofundos.org/index.php (bounty : collect money to request something) | ||
Revision as of 00:06, 12 November 2007
Contents
- 1 top
- 2 friends
- 3 code
- 4 security
- 5 unsorted
- 6 conspiracy related
- 7 installer,packaging,distribution
- 8 anti-censorship
- 9 games
- 10 gamedev and lists
- 11 video capturing and editing
- 12 general linux news and links
- 13 social networking and bookmarking
- 14 libs
- 15 content creation
- 16 free content
- 17 hosting
- 18 fun
- 19 uni
top
- 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
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
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
security
- http://cve.mitre.org/ Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
- http://www.cert.org/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/
unsorted
- 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
- 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://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://zeitgeistmovie.com/ google video
- http://www.911inplanesite.com/ google video followup google video
- search for icke, flynn, tsarion, dr deagle / deaglew , maxwell
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/southern_counties/5382878.stm rfid gone wrong : dog eats car-key chip
installer,packaging,distribution
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
games
- 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://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)
- 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 : planeshift clone/fork with free content
- 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
gamedev and lists
- happypenguin.org
- holarse.net
- linux.strangegamer.com
- 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
- gamedev.net
- developia
- galaxynews bg
- gameprogrammwiki1
- 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://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.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
- 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://board.unixgamedev.org/index.php?topic=7.0 several efforts to create a wiki+community about free game dev or similar
- 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://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/
- http://lwn.net/Articles/257457/ Linux Game Company : ransom model
- 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)
commercial opensource
- http://www.theoretic.com/projects/ransom (develop something and release it as opensource after collecting money)
- http://lwn.net/Articles/257457/ example : goal : collect 40k
- http://cofundos.org/index.php (bounty : collect money to request something)
video capturing and editing
- 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
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
- 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
libs
- see also Ogre
content creation
- povray
- http://www.mapzoneeditor.com/
- 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
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/
free content
- 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.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://spring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=12278&highlight=gpl ta-spring(RTS) initiative for free content
- also interesting : mod-scene of games like quake,halflife,neverwinternights,oblivion they often produce many good models
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/
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/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
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
- LowPolyCoop open content + blog
- http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17532 (medieval things)
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/ogoglio creative commons licensed ?
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)
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
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
