[Kilorn]

Anyone know of a good place to find some free tilesets for an 8-bit RPG? I'll need some for the world view, as well as dungeons, towns, castles, ruins, deserts, forests, etc.

[SixOfEleven]

Try http://opengameart.org for starters. They have a good selection of resources though I'm not sure if you could consider them 8-bit or not.

[Kilorn]

Yea, I'm looking through their tilesets now. I see some promising stuff so far, but I'm still open to other suggestions as well.

[SixOfEleven]

You could try Reiner's as well. He has a bunch of tiles and some sprites as well.

http://reinerstilese...vironmentE.html

[SixOfEleven]

You can look at the Chipsets entry at Charas as well.

http://charas-project.net

Better link:
http://charas-projec...any=10&fsearch=

[Kilorn]

Yea, I've used Charas for all of my character sprites so far just because I enjoy being able to create my own characters and they have an awesome quantity of things to choose from.

[Melon Bread]

Fruity Loops Alternative:

Linux MultiMedia Studio
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/

[ghillieLEAD]

I've been scrounging the internet for some great articles and such on 3d game programming and have come across two really great resources that I would like to share.

The first is http://www.gamerendering.com/. I haven't read close to all of the information linked here, but I really enjoyed the papers and articles on vegetation.

The second is http://developer.nvi..._gems_home.html. I don't think I need to say anything about a programming book with the word 'Gems' in it to convince you to read it. The name and link should be enough.

[adiian]

You ca find a collection of free sprites, free tilesets and other resources on hasgraphics.com.

[NeoTifa]

I have some LoZ sprites. I think they're just Link and his items, but hey. If you want them, I'll upload them later.

[Undertaker2307]

I didn't see any links for this...:

http://www.udk.com/download

...and, my humble opinion this is best and the easiest Development Kit for games..

also in combination with:

http://www.pixologic.com/home.php

[UG Cyber]

Does anyone have any good references for the math it takes to create a game or collision detection methods?

This is the best i have so far

http://www.swiftless.../mathstuts.html

This post has been edited by UG Cyber: 19 April 2011 - 12:40 PM

[v0rtex]

UG Cyber, I recommend looking at macosxnerd101's tutorials on Math and Game Programming. I think they might help. As for collisons, I found the recent tutorial very helpful: http://www.dreaminco...-1d-collisions/

I also found this very helpful: http://www.essential...om/tutorial.htm

[bmcfallen]

I've found a few more tools that I don't think are on the list yet, so here goes.

A good program for 8-bit sounds/music: My link, it has a bit of a learning curve, but is well worth it.

A good program for editing sprites: IcoFX, this is really good at getting pixel perfect images, it only saves in .ico but you can export to most other formats.

[Adkins]

What about SlimDX? I am just getting started with it, but it looks promising.