General Resources
Unreal Examples (from class)
(almost) Free books
Software
Unreal 4.12
Unreal 4.8
Miscellaneous Resources
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Older resources
Blender 2.71
Download Game Engine
- Extensive Tutorials (lynda.com, paid by FSU. You must register, but is free.)
- Interactive Sound generator
- Free sounds
- More free sounds
- MakeHuman (creation of humanoid forms)
- Blendswap (free assets for Blender)
- Free models in fbx format
- http://cgtextures.com/
- http://opengameart.org/textures/all
- How to write your first game document
- The Anatomy of a Design Document, Part 1: Documentation Guidelines for the Game Concept and Proposal
- Game Design Document Template
- Game Design Document Template (uploadable into Google Docs)
Unreal Examples (from class)
(almost) Free books
- Master the art of blueprints
- Mastering Unreal Technology, Volumes 1 and 2: Introduction to Level Design with Unreal Engine 3 (by Jason Busby). Used version cost less than $5 + $4 shipping. No information on Blueprint scripting language (introduced in Unreal 4)
Software
Unreal 4.12
- The Big List of Unreal Resources
- Unreal Wiki (tons of examples and tutorials)
- Blueprint Basics (short video tutorials)
- Blueprint Fundamentals
- Great Blueprint Tutorials (I am studying some myself)
- Introduction to Blueprints
Unreal 4.8
- Download Game Engine
- Modeling video tutorials
- Creating a level in Unreal (video)
More on levels (video) - Massive list of tutorial videos
- Brushes (additive/subtractive)
- Documentation (extensive)
- Forums
- Getting Started with Unreal
- Level Design Quick Start
- Behavior Tree Quick Start
- Source code control
- List of Unreal Engine Games
- Romero's Blueprint tutorials (pdf files)
Miscellaneous Resources
- The xIndie Game: The Movie On Netflix
- Designing Journey-Evoking Emotion (interest curves, how the UI affects people), how human interaction will change emotion
- GDC Vault-Videos from the Game Design Conference, all videos from the GDC (Game Design Conference) for the past 3-4 years:
- Level Design-Mario 1-1, design club (same people who did extra credit). Great example for level designers.
- Design Club, remaining of episodes.
- Extra Credits
- Double Fine Documentary, 31 episodes creating a game funded by Kickstarter.
- King of Kong Competitive Gaming Documentary: about gaming environments and associated culture. (people who play Donkey Kong competitively.)
- Research on games (videos)
- Ludum Dare Resources. List of tools and environments (mostly free).
- Indie Resources. List of resources (mostly free).
- GGJ Resources. Mostly free.
- What happened to 3D platforms?
- The 10 best 3D platformer games
- Twitch.TV
- Miyamoto: How Nintendo made mario's most iconic level
Older resources
Blender 2.71
Download Game Engine
- Extensive Tutorials (lynda.com, paid by FSU.) You must register.)
- Baking Textures Tutorial
- Game logic bricks
- Python API for version 2.72
- Tutorials by Doc. Monster
- Finished Games
- Mouselook Script (move objects with the mouse)
- Blender 3D: Noob to Pro (all aspects of Blender)
- Physics in the game engine
- Game Development with Blender (book: $$)
- Best Practices (I)
- Best Practices (II)
- Game engine resources (Forum messages)
- Simple Character in Game Engine (part I) (video, 45 min)
- Simple Character in Game Engine (part II) (video 45 min)
- Simple Character in Game Engine (Part III) (video 45 min)
- Portal game
- Music creation via web interface
- Introduction to Character Rigging (BlenderCookie.com, Excellent!)
Blender Market (models, scripts, etc. $, $$)
Blender 2.63a
Download
Game Engine
Animation
Resources
Blender 2.59
Blender 2.49b
FSUGD example blender files
Blender 2.63a
Download
Game Engine
- Tutorials by Doc. Monster
- More tutorials
- Game Engine Resources
- Mouselook Script (move objects with the mouse)
- Game Examples
- Creating a simple game
- Blender Game Engine: Beginner's Guide
- Advanced Game Engine (online book, in the process of being created)
Animation
- Video tutorials (look at pages 5 and 6)
- Visual explanation of the game "WindWaker"
- Materials and textures
- Free Texture Repository
- More free textures
- Creating a low poly-model with texture (part 1)
- How to create multiple materials and multiple textures on an object
Resources
- Video tutorials
- Blender, Noob to Pro (Wiki book, in the process of being created)
- All Blender 2.63 modifiers explained (video)
Blender 2.59
Tutorials
- Blender 3D design course (has nice links section too)
- cgtuts+ (mostly modeling)
- Blender Cookie
- KatsBits (Game Engine tutorials)
- Game Engine example blend files for GLSL
- Some BGE tutorials
- Blender Basics Book 4th Edition 2011 (Free Book)
- A Full template for FPS games in Blender Game Engine
- Create a flickering light and other video tutorials
- Youtube blender tutorial series by super3boy
- Blender art magazine
Scripting
Animation
Modeling/Rendering
- Lots of modeling totorials.
- Compositing tutorials. (Not BGE)
- Create a dragon from fluid. (Not BGE)
Blender 2.49b
Tutorials
- Blender Basics Book
- Essential Blender Book
- Blender 3D Noob to Pro Series
- Blender FAQ
- Blender 3D design course
- Good tutorial site
- COG Films tutorials
- Animation in Blender 3D
- Game Engine Tutorials
- 555 Blender Tutorials
- User created tutorials forum
- 5min tutorial on IPO curves and key frames
- Gordon's Texture Video Tutorials
- Blender game tutorials (2.49) (thanks Larin!)
- Getting Started Video series (thanks Sarah)
Articles
- Bullet physics and bounding boxes
- Motion Capture
- Character Rigging (video tutorial)
- Video Textures
- Video Textures (different)
- Materials in Game Engine
- GLSL Shaders
- Realtime GLSL Materials
- Programming with logic bricks
- Model from image
- Object Follow a Curve (w/ Python)
- HUD, text and scoring (youtube)
- MouseLook (thanks Jared)
- BGE Support Forum Archives (lots of questions and answers)
Examples:
- Gordon's GameKit
- blender underground: blend file roundup
- Misc Examples
- Opensource character rigs (thanks Rachel)
- mechdroid: open source blender game. learning tool for blender
- zoo-blender: list of blend files
Scripts
- Terrain Generator
- Laptop numpad emulator (for blender shortcuts)
- saltshaker: randomly generate lots of things
- Boids (small swarm) (thanks Rachel)
- Creating Libraries of objects
FSUGD example blender files