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Useful Sites for Game Development |
The following are
sites that contain public domain (free) utility software or art work. Please be
extra careful and only download files that are explicitly marked as “free” or “public domain”. Remember you are responsible for the resources
contained in your games. If it contains anything illegal, you are responsible!
Portal to bunch of free resources:
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http://gamemaking.indiangames.net/index_files/FreeSpritesforGames.htm
(watch it! Not all the sites referenced here provide copyrighted materials!!)
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http://www.xnaresources.com/
Art work and Textures:
Art work:
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http://www.ausmall.com.au/freegraf/freegrfa.htm
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http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/FX101321031033.aspx?pid=CL100570201033
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Textures:
Sprites Sheet:
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http://charas-project.net/ (From Joseph Kniest, Spring
2010)
- Click on Complete Resources (to the left under Site)
- Click on Various() (under Extra)
Background Art work:
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http://www.celestial-art.net/
(From John Davis, Spring 2009, scroll to the end to see
conditions of usage).
Utility programs for image editing:
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Many
of the online art work are stored in (transparent) gif format. XNACS1Lib does
not understand gif format. I used the Exorcist program to convert gif to png
for textures. The Exorcist program can be downloaded from: http://www.nigels.com/exorcist/Download.html
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Icons
are stored in .ico format. I used the IcoFX (http://icofx.ro) to convert my photograph to
icon.
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Image
editing programs:
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http://www.gimp.org/
(from Kyle Gerrodette, Spring 2009)
2.
Image editing program: http://aviary.com/home
(from John Davis, Sprint 2009)
3.
Avatar
editing: http://myavatareditor.com
(from Shane Krolikowski and Scott McPherson, Winter 2010)
Audio and Background Music:
General:
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http://www.freesound.org/
(from Thomas Baron, Fall 2009)
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http://partnersinrhyme.com
(from Aaron Amlag and Brendon Co, Fall 2009)
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http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/
(from Ronald Cook, Spring 2010)
Background music:
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http://www.musopen.com/
(from Mikhail Elbert, Spring 2009)
Audio effects (for audio
cue):
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http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/
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http://simplythebest.net (from Shane
Krolikowski and Scott McPherson,
Winter 2010)
Utility programs for
audio editing:
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Audio
editor program: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
(from Kyle Gerrodette, Spring 2009). Hints
from Joshua Bell (Spring 2009) on audio file size.
General Utilities:
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Image/Video
capture:
- http://camstudio.org/
(from Kyle Carrier, Spring 2010)
[Kyle’s comments: This is a great free
alternative to screen capture other than fraps or similar tools which can
cost a lot. It also offers a lot more functionality than fraps in my
opinion, you can record certain sections of your screen instead of the
whole thing, and you can output your video using various codecs to cut
down on file size (though they still need compression through windows
movie maker), as well as a few other nice tools.]
- http://fraps.com/ (from Jeff Hutchins, Spring 2009) [Jeff’s recommendation on video
capture: video file generated can be quite large, run it through WindowsMovieMaker with wmv format.].
- http://wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm
(I use this for static image capture, works well).
- http://www.virtualdub.org/
(from Kyle Carrier, Spring 2010) [Kyle’s comments: This provides screen
capture capability as well as a pretty nice (and free!) way to edit and
touch up videos. It’s also really useful for compressing videos captured
with something like fraps.
Tutorial and Engines:
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On
stencil buffer: http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnhar/archive/2007/05/17/transitions-part-three-stencil-swipes.aspx
(from Katherine Kuttler, Spring 2009)
[ed: to get access to “device”, you would need to include/modify the library
source code, try it! It is not that scary].
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Physics
Engine: http://www.codeplex.com/FarseerPhysics
(from Katherine Kuttler, Spring 2009 - one really neat capability
of Farseer that I discovered is that it can convert a texture with an alpha
into a list of vertices [ed: for collision purposes]).
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ParticleSystem:
(from Eric Nevala, Spring 2009)
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Working with
SpriteSheet: http://www.ziggyware.com/readarticle.php?article_id=138
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