Indie Developer Resources List

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Introduction

This page is a place to store links to useful resources available on the internet for independant game developers. Contributions can include links to developer blogs, forums, software tools, tutorials, etc ... anything you think is useful to share with other developers. Please make your own contributions and feel free to make more catagories where needed.


Game Portals

Digital distribution portals which accept indie game submissions


Steam

Games For Windows

Desura

Impulse Driven

Show Me The Games

Gamers Gate

Game House

Big Fish Games

Play Greenhouse

Direct 2 Drive


Indie Developer Websites and Forums

Websites dedicated to the indie development scene

Casual Game Association

Indie Gamer

Indie Games Guild


Indie Game Review Websites

Websites which review indie games

Indie Game Reviewer

Indie Game Mag


Indie Developer Blogs

Personal bloggings of indie developers

Lost Garden - Chief Creative Officer at Spry Fox.

2D Boy - World of Goo creator

Klooni Games - 7 day games and Crayon Physics

Cliffski's Blog - Gratuitous Space Battles

Wolfire - Overgrowth

Braid Game - Braid

Project Star Messiah - Grognard's blog

DaggerXL

Art Resources

Places to buy artwork and/or hire artists

Turbo Squid

The 3D Studio

3D Export

Deviant Art

Dexsoft Games

CG Textures

Poly Count

Google 3D Warehouse

3drt


Sound Resources

Places to buy audio samples and music and/or hire musicians

Loop Masters

Producer Loops

Prime Loops

SoundRangers

Game Audio Forum


Game Development Tutorials and Articles

Resources to improve your programming and dev skills

AI Gamedev - AI

Gaffer On Games - Physics / Networking

NVidia Developer Zone - GPU

VTerrain - Terrain

Dynamic Animation - Animation

Blender Cookie - Blender tutorials

Microsoft Gamefest Presentations - Gamefest Presentations


Business

Articles and Resources to help with the business side of development

Digital Game Distribution - Benjamin Dobell's blog

Preparing a product pitch


Game Development Tools

Software to help with game development

Microsoft Visual Studio Express - IDE

Perforce - SCM

Visual Assist X - IDE Plugin

Notepad++ - Code friendly text editor

Personal tools