Links

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

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.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 Tut
• 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

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
• 
• 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.autopackage.org/
• 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

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/ (zelda-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.jwbjerk.com/silvertree/ silvertree : wesnoth in 3d ? rpg ?
• 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

gamedev and lists

• 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://debianlinux.net/games.html
• 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://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://unixgamedev.blogspot.com/
• http://ubuntu-gamedev.wikispaces.com/
• * http://www.liflg.org/ (loki installer project for linux gaming)
• http://www.autopackage.org/
• http://unixgamedev.wikispaces.com/
• 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
• 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://recordmydesktop.iovar.org/about.php apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop : video capture tool for linux
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinelerra apt-get install cinelerra : video editing tool for linux
• http://ecocomics.org/game.html gamelist
• http://wiiuse.net/ lib to use the wii controls

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)

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://virtualworlds.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

• 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://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

• also interesting : mod-scene of games like quake,halflife,neverwinternights,oblivion they often produce many good models

2d gfx / pixelart

• 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
• open arena has a nice repository for textures
• nexuiz has free(libre) textures

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

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
• happypenguin.org
• holarse.net
• liberatedgames.com
• linux.strangegamer.com

uni

• die-informatiker
• mathe-nachschlagewerk