These are some links to various sites including Friends and General Stuff.
My You Tube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/NovoGeek has all the videos from the various game projects that I am involved with and is where I share the video footage of the projects as they develop.
Awesome Tech and Geek Stuff:
G.ho.st
G.ho.st offers every person in the world a free Virtual Computer (VC). G.ho.st is simply pronounced "ghost", an acronym of Global hosted operating system. The G.ho.st Virtual Computer includes almost everything you would have in a physical computer - a desktop, file storage (like a disk drive) and applications (apps).
Game Development:
Gobbo Games
Gobbo Games is an Independent Games Development company operating from Durban in South Africa. They believe in creating high-quality cost-effective games that remain true to the belief of Independent Game Developers around the world.
Garage Games
Garage Games aims to provide independent developers with tools, knowledge, co-conspirators; everything needed to make great games. We give game makers the opportunity to publish their games, find their audiences, and perhaps make their fortunes.
Game Development Groups and Training Organisations:
Train2Game
The world’s first distance learning computer games developer and games design courses – designed by the industry....for the industry.
TIGA
TIGA is the national trade association that represents game developers in the UK and in Europe. Established in 2001, Tiga now has over a hundred members. The majority of our members are either independent games developers or in-house publisher owned developers.
Adarakion
Adarakion is an Independent Game Developer. On their to-do list at number one is "the game must be fun to play". Number 2 on the list reads, "Remember Number 1 on the list!". Adarakion are currently working on the top secret Project Blast!.
Game Content & Artwork:
3D Buzz
3D Buzz is a company dedicated to providing the world with quality technical education over 3D animation, programming, game design, and much more. They have been producing training videos since 2001, always pushing the envelope in the development of informative lessons with an engaging and personable format.
Arteria 3D
Arteria 3D provides professional quality 3D media for use within game, simulation, educational or movie applications. They also offer a full range of music soundtracks to use too, making sourcing art and music a one stop shop with them.
Arteria
Arteria is affiliated with Arteria 3D and is the legacy site that they initially set up. They provide professional 3D models and assets to the commercial and independant game sectors, as well as for use in 3D rendering applications.
Game Servers & Worlds:
Project Darkstar
Project Darkstar aims to help developers and operators avoid a range of serious, yet typical, problems associated with massive scale online games, virtual worlds, and social networking applications today, including zone overloading, data corruption, and server underutilization. In addition, Project Darkstar enables developers to support new dimensions of play such as evolving virtual worlds and very large scale battlefields.
Project Wonderland
Project Wonderland is a 100% Java and open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. Within those worlds, users can communicate with high-fidelity, immersive audio, share live desktop applications and documents and conduct real business. Wonderland is completely extensible; developers and graphic artists can extend its functionality to create entire new worlds and new features in existing worlds.
Development Languages & Libraries:
JavaFX
JavaFX is a family of products for creating rich internet applications (RIA) with immersive media and content, across all the screens of your life. It includes a runtime and a tools suite that web scripters, designers and developers can use to quickly build and deliver the next generation of rich interactive applications for desktop, mobile devices, TV, and other platforms.
jMonkeyEngine
jME (jMonkey Engine) is a high performance scene graph based graphics API. Much of the inspiration for jME comes from David Eberly's book 3D Game Engine Design. jME was built to fulfill the lack of full featured graphics engines written in Java. Using a abstraction layer, it allows any rendering system to be plugged in. Currently, LWJGL is supported with plans for JOGL support in the near future.
RPGs and Rulesets:
Cortex System RPG
CS|RPG is a fan-based site, created by FCWesel for games that use the Cortex System RPG engine of Margaret Weis Productions, ltd. (MWP). Currently these games include Serenity the Roleplaying Game, Battlestar Galactica the Roleplaying Game, but several other games are also under development including Supernatural the Roleplaying Game and Demon Hunters the Roleplaying Game.
