[X] My Assistant

[Core]

@ gabehabe - as usual, great links! Thanks for sharing. And we surely now have a new category - Backgrounds.

[gabehabe]

Got plenty more.

sprites
NES/SNES sprites
RPG Maker Quartier - the site's in German, but there are a LOT of great resources on there. Look under material on the left.
SpriteLib-GPL
Emu Gifs - animated gifs rather than spritemaps
Fenrir's sprite domain


fonts
Acid Fonts

This post has been edited by gabehabe: 8 Jul, 2009 - 09:00 AM

[gabehabe]

I see you edited the list already, but check my edit with the last two sprite links.

[Core]

@ gabehabe - right on! Added. The site in German is a bit confusing but after seeing words that are similar to English (Materials and stuff like that) I decided to add it. Nice work!

[gabehabe]

This may help for the non-German speakers.

This post has been edited by gabehabe: 8 Jul, 2009 - 09:16 AM

[stayscrisp]

How about we take this one step further and have a deposit for resources created by DIC members, things they don't mind sharing with the community to help with game creation. Sprite sheets, sound effects and 3D models etc.

I think this would be great

[Core]

@stayscrisp This feature was already discussed by the team so it currently is in a decision-taking stage. Thanks for the suggestion though!

[NeoTifa]

gabehabes a tool. Is GIMP already claimed? XD *is too lazy to click back*

[Gagnerants]

I think it would be nice to also include a list of books that would help with this subject matter. Some examples would be
A Theory of fun by Raph Koster
Game design (second) by Bob Bates
Rules of Play by Katie Salen
Designing virtual worlds by Richard Bartle
Character Development and Storytelling for Games by Lee Sheldon
Artificial Intelligence for Games by Ian Millington
How GPUs Work
Memory Management - Algorithms And Implementation In C-C++ by Bill Blunden

This post has been edited by Gagnerants: 9 Aug, 2009 - 06:55 AM

[Theaegd]

Great topic Core, AEGD could really use a couple of these things.

[gamejust4u]

Here are several links that I compiled for a friend so that's why DIC is in here. Also there may be repeats from what others previously gave.



Dream in Code- ( for programming help): http://www.dreamincode.net/

SMU- Guildhall School- (Master's degree): http://www.guildhall.smu.edu/Game-Design-V...Devel.47.0.html

Microsoft- (For programming software FREE): http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/

Visual C++ help: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/60k1461a(VS.80).aspx

C++ help: http://cplusplus.com/

C++ tutorial: http://www.visualcomponentlibrary.com/cpp/Lesson26.htm

Arcade Builder: (Game design help): http://www.arcadebuilder.net/

Garage Games (Part of Torque/ Game design help): http://www.garagegames.com/

Game Maker book ( Part of Game Maker saftware /not all free): http://book.gamemaker.nl/

Yoyo Games (part of Game Maker- You can download the software FREE here): http://www.yoyogames.com/

Acknex Unlimited Resources (Haven't viewed this site completely yet): http://au.conitec.net/

MapZone (GREAT graphic resources/ FREE software): http://www.mapzoneeditor.com/?PAGE=HOME

3D Game studio ( different links to game development software): http://www.3dgamestudio.com/

Other development software links ( for different software): http://www.adigitaldreamer.com/game-design-software.htm

[TheGDeveloper]

how do they extract sprites from emulator roms?

[SixOfEleven]

how do they extract sprites from emulator roms?

I believe they use a step through the instruction using a debugger. On each step through the rendering code they do a screen capture and removing everything not related to the sprite.

[stayscrisp]

ZSNES and other emulators have a snapshot function so you can capture sprites, this is quite hard as you have to separate the background from the sprite.

Another method is to use an emulator that uses layers and hide some layers making the sprite rip slightly easier, some emulators also have a pause and increment frame option to capture walk/attack animations.

Using something such as Mac OSX' Grab or simply Print Screen to the clipboard in Windows would work just as well

[NeoTifa]

Or you could remake it your self by zooming in and figuring it out pixel by pixel...

[TheGDeveloper]

the last one is not so easy to do...

[NeoTifa]

No, but it's manlier.

[some_kid]

The Game Creators have many resources

Dark GDK is a free package that goes with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008

[SixOfEleven]

The Game Creators have many resources

Dark GDK is a free package that goes with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008

I will add Dark GDK to the list but The Game Creators seems to be mostly commercial products and we are trying to go with only free resources.

[Hellbroth]

Guys if you want you can put this sprite generator

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=e...i%2Findex1.html

It's a webiste to create simple character sprite sheets with 4 columns and three frames per column.

Example:



Hope it helps