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Game development wikis

• DmWiki DevMaster.net wiki – everything game development
• FreeGameDevWiki A growing resource about free/open source game development
• Game Programming Wiki Constantly improving resource on everything game development

Specialized gaming wikis

• Interactive fiction wiki — exactly what it says on the tin.
• RogueBasin, “The Roguelike information resource that you can edit.”
• Libre Game wiki: The encyclopedia of free/open source games.
• Procedural Content Generation Wiki Games that use it, how to do it, and more
• Programming Games Wiki, i.e. a wiki about those games that are played by writing programs to compete against each other.

3D programming tutorials

• The NeHe OpenGL tutorials; example code is C++ for Windows, but is easy to adapt.
• Jerome Jouvie has a series of OpenGL tutorials for Java, and related software.

2D art tutorials

• Creating Pixel Art, an excellent tutorial on the Pixel Joint Forum.
• 2D Game Art For Programmers – Part 1 — how to make vector art with free/open source tools and little skill.
• Les Forges Pixel Art Course: another, friendlier pixel art tutorial in several parts.

Miscellaneous

• Game Design Depository, an impressive collection of quotes and links about the eponymous topic.
• Game Programming Resources Wiki — huge list of Python game development resources.
• Music Theory for Beginners: the start of a very good series that teaches the basics of making music.
• Medieval Names Archive — just what it says on the tin.