Author Topic: Any good sites (Read 7848 times)

Garrett · « **on:** April 12, 2008, 08:19:26 PM »

Is there any good sites to frequent that will have:

-Forums with an active community much like this one. Not to heavily trafficked but with
-Tutorials about game development
-Links to other sites that has a game in development, like digitalpaint.org

Even another site like this one would be cool.

y00tz · « **Reply #1 on:** April 12, 2008, 10:51:42 PM »

Hmm, well I frequent a dozen or so sites/boards, I can't think of all of them but you should check out stuff like polycount, quakedev, gamedev, gamasutra, valve forums/wikis, blendernation, I'll post more later.

KnacK · « **Reply #2 on:** April 13, 2008, 07:24:11 AM »

what happened to quakesrc?

ViciouZ · « **Reply #3 on:** April 13, 2008, 07:32:18 AM »

Server change, during which the database was destroyed. Site maintainer then found out his backups hadn't been working since 2004.

Garrett · « **Reply #4 on:** April 13, 2008, 03:06:04 PM »

Most of those sites will then lead to games in development, like this game for example, correct?

jitspoe · « **Reply #5 on:** April 14, 2008, 09:04:53 AM »

Tried http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/ ?

Flipcode.com was pretty awesome when it was running. I enjoyed just going there to look at the POTD's. http://flipcode.com/archives/iotd.shtml

Herron · « **Reply #6 on:** April 14, 2008, 11:18:27 AM »

http://nehe.gamedev.net has some really good tutorials if you're just getting started

Edit: Wait a minute, I think I'm a little confused. Are you looking for tutorials about how to make/develop your own game, or are you looking for sites for games that are already in development? Or both? Nehe's site is about basic OpenGL programming you'll need to know when designing your own. (See Tutorial #10, as well.)

y00tz · « **Reply #7 on:** April 14, 2008, 12:11:56 PM »

when I said gamedev, I meant *.gamedev.*, there is a lot of stuff there, especially if you're willing to look.

Good stuff here too: http://dir.gameradar.com/

Garrett · « **Reply #8 on:** April 15, 2008, 01:10:39 PM »

Jitspoe, you are right, those pictures of the day are pretty interesting.

Herron, a little bit of both. I talked to a good friend who is pretty good with a keyboard and mouse and he told me the game programming is a little different then other kinds of application programming. The more tutorials and source code I look at, the better.

y00tz · « **Reply #9 on:** April 15, 2008, 01:52:34 PM »

If you like learning by looking at source code, check this out: http://www.gdmag.com/code.htm

Garrett · « **Reply #10 on:** April 15, 2008, 01:58:49 PM »

y00tz, your bookmarks folder must have over 1000 different links in it, am I wrong?

KnacK · « **Reply #11 on:** April 15, 2008, 02:26:25 PM »

Quote from: Garrett on April 15, 2008, 01:58:49 PM

y00tz, your bookmarks folder must have over 1000 different links in it, am I wrong?

You must be talking about his hidden pr0n bookmark folder....

y00tz · « **Reply #12 on:** April 15, 2008, 04:27:19 PM »

If only I didn't hide it so well that I couldn't find it...

Garrett, if I use the organize bookmarks thing in FF and select all, it's 1184 in the main folder, of course I went through that organizing phase, so I have a few folders. I'm sure Jitspoe has 5 times what I have, just because he's been on the interwebz doing stuff longer.

Cameron · « **Reply #13 on:** April 15, 2008, 06:39:30 PM »

Quote from: y00tz on April 15, 2008, 04:27:19 PM

Garrett, if I use the organize bookmarks thing in FF and select all, it's 1184 in the main folder

HOLY CRAP. I've got the standard ones, I just remember the sites I go 2.

y00tz · « **Reply #14 on:** April 16, 2008, 12:45:31 AM »

some more (sites and specifiic pages:

texturing/gfx:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=373024 (great)
http://www.psionic3d.co.uk/page.php?3 (not so)
http://www.planetphotoshop.com/category/tutorials

programming:
http://glprogramming.com/
http://members.aol.com/aprilnotafool/ebooks/index.html
http://wiki.gamedev.net/index.php/Game_Programming_Wiki
http://gpwiki.org/forums/

Garrett · « **Reply #15 on:** April 16, 2008, 07:59:17 PM »

Man, y00tz. Thanks a bunch. Thats a good week of site 'browzage' for me. How many years did it take you to compile over 1000 bookmarks?

RiMiNi · « **Reply #16 on:** April 20, 2008, 03:05:11 PM »

hey garrett, what are you planning on making anyway?

Garrett · « **Reply #17 on:** April 20, 2008, 03:48:02 PM »

Nothing of the importance, I am only in the learning stage with not real plans yet.

y00tz · « **Reply #18 on:** May 29, 2008, 01:14:20 AM »

D'oh...

Quote from: y00tz on April 14, 2008, 12:11:56 PM

when I said gamedev, I meant *.gamedev.*, there is a lot of stuff there, especially if you're willing to look.

y00tz, you newb. Garrett: Never follow ANY of Nehe's guides from nehe.gamedev.net. Ever.

(Unless you want to learn 10 year-old terrible techniques..)

TinMan · « **Reply #19 on:** May 29, 2008, 05:33:18 PM »

Quote from: y00tz on April 12, 2008, 10:51:42 PM

Hmm, well I frequent a dozen or so sites/boards, I can't think of all of them but you should check out stuff like polycount, quakedev, gamedev, gamasutra, valve forums/wikis, blendernation, I'll post more later.

+1
Those are all good sites.