Resources

General Resources

• 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

Game Documents

• 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)

Example Game Documents from 2015 game design class

• Team 1
• Team 2
• Team 3
• Team 4
• Team 5
• Team 6
• Team 7

Unreal Examples (from class)

• Macros, functions, trigger volumes, animations (45 Mbytes) (tar), (zip)

(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)

Game Demonstrations with Unreal

• 2014 Game reel with Unreal 4 Engine
• Top 5 Best Next Gen Game Engines Of the Future

Software

• Unreal 4.8
• Blender 2.75
• Gimp
• Audacity

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

Blender 2.75

• Download Game Engine
• Modeling video tutorials

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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

Rigging

• Introduction to Character Rigging (BlenderCookie.com, Excellent!)

Free blender models

Blender Market (models, scripts, etc. $, $$)

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)

Scripting

• Python API

Animation

• Video tutorials (look at pages 5 and 6)

Textures

• 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

• Official Python API for Blender 2.59
• Blender scripts and introduction to scripting in Blender.
• A lot of scripting examples
• Book that explains creating add ons for Blender 2.5x
• Video introduction to Scripting in Blender

Animation

• Physically and Procedurally generated walking animation for arbitrary creatures.
• Breaking objects in BGE.

Textures

• Free Texture Repository
• More free textures

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

• displacement mapping (press p key to see effect)

Related Resources

• LuxRender (open rendering tool, close ties to blender)
• Retopo tool for modeling
• Modeling a hand