"Best in Class" Publicly Available Game Resources By: Adrian Lanning Date: 08 / 11 / 03 Email: alanning55@hotmail.com Motivation I compiled this list in order to help other independent game developers concentrate on creating fun games rather than spending time re-inventing the wheel. This page contains links to what I consider the "Best in Class" of the publicly available game resources and libraries. Resources are categorized by functionality and further sub-categorized by license. Note: License sub-categories are accurate as of the date above but are provided solely as a convenience for the developer. As always, consult the license documentation included with each resource to determine the actual (read: legally-binding) licensing agreement. All resources are Win32 compatible and many are Linux compatible as well. I will endeavor to keep this list concise but should you feel there are other "Best in Class" resources, please let me know so I can add them to the list. Table of Contents Free Books Tutorials Commercial Game Source 3D Modeling Applications 3D Converter 3D Graphics Engines 3D Game Engines Rendering APIs Model Loading / Animation Collision Detection Window Systems Documenting Compression Audio APIs General Utils Image Loading Image Manipulation Image Debugging Memory Management Logging Scripting Networking Threading FREE Books Back to TOC     Graphics Gems Thinking in C++ (2nd Edition) Thinking in Java OpenGL Redbook Tutorials Back to TOC     Nehe Game Tutorials Als OpenGL Page nitroGL romka - (If anyone knows what happened to romka's original site with all the code, let me know.) nate miller - (Apparently down now...) nate robins Commercial Game Source Back to TOC     GPL Quake1 Quake2 Sin Abuse 3D Modeling Applications Back to TOC     FREE-no source trueSpace3 gmax Open Source Blender3D 3D Converter Back to TOC     FREE Crossroads 3D Graphics Engines Back to TOC     (See the 3d Engines List for a more extensive compilation.) LGPL Ogre Crystal Space X Engine 3D Game Engines Back to TOC     FREE 4 Non-Commercial The Nebula Device The Q Engine LGPL Hawk 0.8 Rendering APIs Back to TOC     LGPL SDL glut Model Loading / Animation Back to TOC     LGPL cal3d lib3ds Collision Detection Back to TOC     LGPL coldet Window Systems Back to TOC     LGPL (with less-restrictive binary modification) wxWindows Documenting Back to TOC     FREE Doxygen Compression Back to TOC     LGPL~ zlib Audio APIs Back to TOC     FREE? OpenAL LGPL~ fmod FREE 4 Non-Commercial bass General Utils Back to TOC     FREE STLport Boost Image Loading Back to TOC     LGPL DevIL (OpenIL) LGPL~ FreeImage NO LICENSE imglib (Targa and JPEG only) Image Manipulation Back to TOC     FREE ImageMagick Image Debugging Back to TOC     FREE imdebug (very cool) Memory Management Back to TOC     FREE Fluid Studios MMGR Logging Back to TOC     FREE Fluid Studios Logger Scripting Back to TOC     LGPL Lua Python Networking Back to TOC     LGPL~ ssobjects HawkNL Threading Back to TOC     LGPL pthreads (POSIX threads for Windows)