I’ve been around the game development arena for so many years now that it actually hurts if i try to think back too far , it’s always been as a hobbyist working on a string budget (and sometimes I couldn’t afford the string) so I always had to make best use of what I had and everything else, well, lets just say it’s been fun.

One thing that has piled up over the years is my massive collection of links to FREE (or nearly free) resources to help out those building games, some are assets, others are the best samples of free tutorials to either build your own or craft simple items in to much much more.

**Note – in the land of hunting for FREE do not think because it uses the word “free” that it has no restrictions. ALWAYS check the license (most just want attribution or mention). Be very aware of “Royalty Free” which only means it’s free to use AFTER you buy it

So without much todo and very little formatting here’s the first drop (so many links, takes time to go through them), all work (Checked as of 22 August 2013).

** Updated 10th July 2014

Books, Books and more books

http://itdiscover.com/links/free-c-c-sharp-c-plus-plus-books-online-programming – Massive set of free language books

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2012/07/27/large-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-for-you-including-sharepoint-visual-studio-windows-phone-windows-8-office-365-office-2010-sql-server-2012-azure-and-more.aspx – get your Microsoft book here !!

http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/index.html – nice 3D tutorial

http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/ants-performance-profiler/entrypage/avoid-find-fix-asp-problems – 50 ways to improve ASP.NET performance ebook

**http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com – Game Programming Patterns

**http://pcgbook.com – Interesting resource on procedural graphics in online book form, based on a course

**http://bit.ly/MicrosoftFreeBooksCollection – The largest repository of free books. Not all gamedev but a lot of info on game related stuff.

Tools

http://www.develop-online.net/news/35461/Seven-free-tools-to-give-your-game-studio-a-boost – Develops view of 7 of top tools

http://escapedevelopment.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/free-developer-resources.html – a nice break down of one developers favourite free resources and tools

http://www.3dtextmaker.com/cgi-bin/3dtext.pl – 2D art tool for making funky 3D text effects

http://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-4-pro/ – DAZ Studio 4.6 Pro FREE

https://darkgenesis.zenithmoon.com/in-the-search-for-a-3d-modelling-tool-for-xna/ – other FREE 3D modelling editors

http://windowsphone.stackexchange.com/ – Windows Phone Stack exchange

http://www.1800pocketpc.com/best-free-cloud-storage-services-windows-phone-8/ – Best free cloud storage services

Collections

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2011UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolListForWindows.aspx – Scott Hanselman’s monster list, well worth a look.

http://nokiawpdev.wordpress.com/resources/ – Nokia monster mash of links and resources, not all free but all worth a look

http://open.commonly.cc/ – Shouted about this recently so worth mentioning again, monster free assets

http://fatboxsoftware.com/resources/4573006782 – large collection of art and Unity stuff

http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/18e38t/pocketknives_for_game_developers/ – Pocketknives for Game Developers, on-going collection of game dev tools on Reddit

http://blog.diabolicalgame.co.uk/p/reminders.html – Another Monster set of resources for game dev (be sure not to click on the circular reference )

) http://www.creativebloq.com/design/1000-12121531 – a massive collection of 1300 designer resources

**http://bit.ly/OneStopShopOfGameDevLinks – Lee Stott (Microsoft Evangelist) gives us yet another massive set of game dev resources

Game Dev Tutorials

http://jessefreeman.com/articles/designing-retro-games-for-windows-8/ – Jesse Freemans excellent Retro design tutorial

http://adg.devink.co.uk/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=24&Itemid=81 – whole heap of multi-platform tutorials for all ages

http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/2011/05/12/how-to-make-angry-birds-part-1/ – Like Angry birds, make more

http://hub.tutsplus.com/hubs/game-design/search?tags[]=From+Scratch – more tutorials than you can shake even the smallest stick at

http://gamedev.tutsplus.com/ – Game development tutorials to the max

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/634353/Fluent-and-Imperative-Animations – Recent link but worth reading

http://www.creativebloq.com/app-design/how-build-app-tutorials-12121473 – How to build an app: 45 great tutorials

http://hub.tutsplus.com/hubs/game-design/search?tags[]=From+Scratch – Game building from scratch tutorials

http://www.creativebloq.com/video-production/create-green-screen-effects-11121221 – How to green screen: create great video effects

http://gamedev.tutsplus.com/tutorials/implementation/make-a-splash-with-2d-water-effects/ – Make a Splash With Dynamic 2D Water Effects by Michael Hoffman be sure to check out his other stuff

http://gamedev.tutsplus.com/tutorials/implementation/make-your-game-pop-with-particle-effects-and-quadtrees – Make Your Game Pop With Particle Effects and Quadtrees by Daniel Church

http://www.wpgamer.info/2013/05/wpxna-catalog.html – Windows Phone Game Collection tutorials

http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/math-and-physics/ – Math and Physics coding tutorials for game devs

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/649273/A-Algorithm-for-Path-Planning – Nice simple A* pathfinding tutorial

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/638777/A-Complex-Yet-Quite-Intelligible-Pathfinding-in-Cs – Another Pathfinding tutorial

MonoGame Tutorials & Stuff

https://monogame.codeplex.com/discussions/439595 – Large list of MonoGame tutorials

http://blog.filipekberg.se/2012/12/21/creating-a-windows-8-store-game-with-monogame-xaml-and-signalr/ – Creating a Windows 8 Store Game with MonoGame (XAML) and SignalR

https://github.com/grumpydev/MonoGameContentTypesSample – Handy tool to make xnb content file automatically set their build properties

**https://github.com/GarethIW/LDEngine – 2D pixelart engine for all future LD jams

**http://www.matthughson.com/2014/04/20/from-xna-to-google-play-a-primer/ – XNA TO MONOGAME.ANDROID – PORTING PRIMER

**http://tirania.org/slides/AltDevConf-2012-Mono.pdf – Mono for game developers presentation by non other than Miguel de Icaza of Xamarin

Marketing Tutorials

http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1k67t0/a_lobsters_guide_for_video_game_projects_on/ – A nice HowTo guide for doing a kickstarter project

http://www.mugshotgames.com/2013/08/publishing-your-first-game-in-40-not-so-easy-steps/ – Simple marketing tips

http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2013/01/31/how-to-get-your-app-promoted-in-the-windows-phone-store.aspx – Nuff said, get promoting

http://blog.jerrynixon.com/2013/08/5-things-you-must-do-before-you-publish.html – Jerry’s get ready to publish post

http://nokiawpdev.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/make-an-awesome-video-for-your-app/ – Great tutorial on how to make effective marketing videos for your game / project

**http://blogs.msdn.com/b/matdev/archive/2014/04/14/announcing-multilingual-app-toolkit-v3-0.aspx – Multilingual App Toolkit’s blog

**http://Mangotron.com – has covered over 100 games since May. Submit yours now!

**http://nakedgameplay.com – Promote your Games Shamelessly, Everyday is # screenshotsaturday

Other Tutorials

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jerrynixon/archive/2012/11/12/training-resources-for-native-c-and-c-cx-programming-graphics-and-gaming.aspx – Training Resources for native C++ and C++CX programming, graphics and gaming

**http://invokeit.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/wp7-app-piracy-and-how-to-deal-with-it/ – Anti-Piracy tips for Windows / Windows Phone

**http://shaunsgameacademy.co.uk/ – Kids game academy from Aardman Studios (Yes the Wallace and Grommet people)

Blender Stuff

http://blenderunderground.com/category/video-tutorials/ – Set of FREE Blender training videos

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL006307E237BB7FF6 – The Blender training video set on YouTube

http://www.blendswap.com/ – got a model swap it out or just browse

http://www.blender-models.com/ – The largest collection of Blender models seen by a mouse

http://accelermedia.com/index.php?q=content/free-3d-models-compatible-blender – Yet more Blender models

http://annex2nothing.com/maya-to-blender-animation/ – Maya to Blender Animation

http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1lcn7h/incredibly_detailed_blender_game_modelling/ – step by step blender tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PxQkqJpnMs – Very detailed blender modelling tutorial

**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=399gTvoM9o4 – How to create light sphere’s in Cycles

**http://t.co/zEmkln3f8S – Blender 2.70 – Painting with Particles

Audio resources

http://www.freesound.org/ – community collection of (you guessed it) free sounds

http://www.freesfx.co.uk/ – want a sound effect, get it free

http://audiojungle.net/ – not strictly free but Audio Jungle as some very affordable tracks to choose from

http://soundbible.com/ another good sound and effects site

https://soundcloud.com/ – Great works of art and very reasonable prices, some free one’s too (thanks to Anthony Brown)

http://vimeo.com/musicstore – Yet another library of sounds and music, some free some paid, some just AWESOMMME (thanks to Anthony Brown)

http://jessefreeman.com/game-dev/intro-to-making-sound-effects-for-games/ Another Jesse Freeman tutorial, this time on audio

Generators

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcgen/ – an RPG character generator on sourceforge

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fracplanet/ – A fractal planet generator, good to learn from

**http://pcgbook.com/ – A whole online book about Procedural Content Generation in games

Get Help

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&b=24&t=190364&p=1 – Pure gold, artists who will work for free or for a cut of your profits. Really nice crowd

http://fiverr.com/l/logo_design_b3 – Need a logo design on the cheap, seems very reasonable

3D Model resources

http://www.3dmodelfree.com/ – first of many free 3D model sites, either as programmer art or a starting point for your own work

http://artist-3d.com/– Focusing on the big tools, loads of free models

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/60-excellent-free-3d-model-websites/ – A monster collection of FREE 3D model sites

http://accelermedia.com/index.php?q=content/free-3d-models-compatible-blender – a collection of #d model sites compatible with Blender

http://resources.blogscopia.com/ – an interesting set of quality 3D model samples

http://opengameart.org/ – From 2D to 3D and beyond, humongous collection of community assets

http://www.thegamecreators.com/?m=view_product&id=2103 – free stuff from the creators club (note registration required)

http://www.3dsquirrel.co.uk/forums/ – affordable 3D models with great support

http://www.propsplanet.com/#/search – need a prop in a hurry, check it out

http://www.3dmodelfree.com/ – 3D models and they are free…

http://www.turbosquid.com/ – Commercial model site but they do have free stuff and also some of the highest quality paid stuff (inc quality checked models)

http://www.creativebloq.com/3d/free-3d-models-10121127 – 25 Top FREE 3D models

https://www.facebook.com/fatBOXSoftware/app_190322544333196 – Large collection of .obj Models, also check out their site http://fatboxsoftware.wordpress.com/

**http://rift3d.com/30-free-tree-models-and-more-for-commercial-use/ – 30 Tree Models Free for Commercial Use (and more!)

**http://darkscarab.com/resources/?type=models – Dark Scarab’s Awesome tutorial and free 3D model site

**http://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/ – Another go to place for 3D model resources and more, they also offer 3D printing services and printers 😀

2D art,vectors and backgrounds

http://www.webweaver.nu/ -Clipart Vectors and animations – oh my

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/50-websites-for-free-vector-images-download/ – A monster set of FREE vector art sites

http://www.atulperx.com/graphics/free-vector-shield-graphic-images/ – Another collection of Vector art

http://www.clipartreview.com/ – high quality clip art review site, most are free but check the details (most only require permission, e.g. a reference in the app you use it in)

http://www.vectorstock.com/home – High grade vector art site with reasonable prices

http://www.xamalot.com/ a XAML resources site, interesting what you can find.

http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/packs/index.htm – Massive set of procedural and seamless textures

http://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design/15-fantastic-sources-free-background-textures-11121331 – Fantastic set of background textures

http://www.creativebloq.com/photography/photo-libraries-12121413 – 15 top stock photo libraries

http://www.creativebloq.com/design/1000-12121531 – 100’s of FREE resources for designers

http://webdesignledger.com/freebies/20-free-textures-for-your-delight – 20+ Free textures for your delight

http://makegames.tumblr.com/post/41267990744/before-spelunky-i-started-a-simple-little – 2D spritesheet from the creators of Spelunky

http://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design/15-fantastic-sources-free-background-textures-11121331 – Where to find free background textures: 15 great resources

http://www.dragoart.com/ – excellent art tutorial site to get you going

http://onceuponasketch.com/2012/11/free-hour-training-on-painting-in-sketchbook-pro-with-bobby-chiu/ – Free hour training on Painting in Sletchbook Pro

http://wootstudio.ca/win8platstarter – FREE Platformer Game Starter Kit assets

http://onceuponasketch.com/2013/08/color-theory-with-marc-brunet/ – Colour theory for 2D artists

http://onceuponasketch.com/2013/03/designing-characters-with-shape/ – How to draw charaters

http://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design/how-create-vector-art-2131975 – 55 amazing vector art tutorials

**http://t.co/dblqlyInnD – Free hdri 8K maps + backplates 4K-5K, direct download

**http://thesociablegeek.com/games-2/creating-a-character-for-your-game-using-inkscape/ – Creating a Character for your Game Using Inkscape

**http://www.noupe.com/freebie/html-css-psd-and-more-22-free-and-fresh-design-resources-from-april-2014-81923.html – HTML, CSS, PSD and More: 22 Free and Fresh Design Resources

**http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-an-earth-shattering-disaster-scene-in-photoshop–psd-23328 – Create an Earth Shattering Disaster Scene in Photoshop (and other art tutorials)

**http://www.dzone.com/links/r/25_best_premium_amp_free_flat_icons_psd.html – 25+ Best Premium & Free Flat Icons PSD

**http://buff.ly/1lTIFBK – Bloggers: Know when to use a JPG and when to use a PNG and always Squish them both

**https://t.co/gs6faXZM1m – Not free but really really cheap set of Modular 2D spaceships

**http://brushcity.com/free-art.html – they offer a sample of free graphics work but also offer a reasonable catalogue of other 2D artwork

Icon Libraries

http://findicons.com Free icon site, some spectacular image sets like this one http://findicons.com/pack/1472/starships

http://www.iconarchive.com/ – need an icon, need it fast, get it here

http://www.1800pocketpc.com/new-free-icons-for-wp7-application-bar/ – Icons for your App, no problem

http://modernuiicons.com/ – Gallery of FREE icons, plus http://modernuiicons.com/tutorial – Modern UI Icons creation tutorial

http://www.alessioatzeni.com/metrize-icons/ – Free Collection of 300 Metro-Style Icons for Designers and Developers

http://iconmonstr.com/ – Icon Monstr massive collection of random icons

http://www.geekchamp.com/icon-explorer/introduction – Geek Champ icon library – 1507 Free icons

http://www.1800pocketpc.com/free-metro-icon-set-with-over-600-icons/ – FREE Metro Icon Set with over 600 icons

http://game-icons.net/ – Hundreds of free icons to customize and include in your games

http://www.alessioatzeni.com/metrize-icons/ – 300 modern icons

http://modernuiicons.com/tutorial – Tips and design help for creating your own icons

Font Resources

http://typography-daily.com/blog/2013/05/22/10-great-free-monospaced-fonts-for-programming/ – 10 great free monospaced fonts for programming

http://www.creativebloq.com/typography/best-free-web-fonts-1131610 – 30 amazing free web fonts

http://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design-tips/best-free-fonts-for-designers-1233380 – The 130 best free fonts

http://www.functionn.in/2012/11/the-best-free-iconic-web-fonts.html – THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE INDEX OF FREE ICON FONTS/ICONIC WEB FONTS

http://designreflect.com/free-handwritten-fonts/ – 20 Free Handwritten Fonts

Shader things

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4ds3WS – a shader that creates MineCraft block type worlds

** http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eternalcoding/archive/2014/04/17/learning-shaders-create-your-own-shaders-with-babylon-js.aspx – What do you mean by shaders? Learn how to create shaders

Unity Stuff

Moved all these links to the dedicated “So you want to be a Unity Game Developer” post

Game Engines and resources

http://dragon-scale-studios.com/gibbo/index.php/main/display/features – Gibbo 2D engine for C#

https://github.com/NLua – Scripting support for C# games

http://www.havok.com/solutions/mobile-game-developers – Havok Mobile engine – FREE

http://freesdk.crydev.net/dashboard.action – Crytek 3 Free SDK and engine

http://www.develop-online.net/news/43552/The-Top-14-game-engines-guide-starts-now – The top 14 game engines guide

https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/nuclearwinter – UI framework for MonoGame

http://www.dzone.com/links/r/10_free_html5_game_enginesframeworks.html – 10 Free HTML5 game engines

http://html5gameengine.com/ – hot list of HTML / JavaScript game engines

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eternalcoding/archive/2013/06/27/babylon-js-a-complete-javascript-framework-for-building-3d-games-with-html-5-and-webgl.aspx – detailed post on the Babylon JS game engine

http://www.bepuphysics.com/ – The Bepu physics engine, used widely in the market

http://jitter-physics.com/wordpress/ – Another great physics engine

http://bulletphysics.org/wordpress/ – A physics engine favours by MonoGame devs

http://farseerphysics.codeplex.com/ – no list would be complete without mentioning Farseer 😀

http://mpe.codeplex.com/ – The Mercury Particle Engine, nice open source particle fever

http://deltaengine.net/home – Good for PC, Linux,Mac games. but paid for others inc web, phone, etc

http://assimp.sourceforge.net/index.html – C++ Asset system for gamedev, plus check out the C# wrapper for the lib here – https://code.google.com/p/assimp-net/

http://nine.codeplex.com/ – XNA Based game engine, also suitable for MonoGame dev

Windows Phone

http://michaelcrump.net/mbcrump/archive/2011/04/25/best-of-free-frameworks-tools-and-controls-for-windows-phone – Michael Crumps monster list of WP Dev tools and resources

http://compiledexperience.com/windows-phone/tutorials – another good WP dev resource

http://www.andybeaulieu.com/Default.aspx?EntryID=198&tabid=67 – interesting detail and conversation on obfuscating your WP XAP’s

http://blakehandler.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/ultimate-list-of-free-windows-phone-7-software-resources-from-microsoft/ – another monster list of WP tools and resources

http://mobileworld.appamundi.com/blogs/petevickers/archive/2011/08/31/appa-mundi-release-free-gui-interface-for-the-isolated-storage-explorer-tool-gui-iset.aspx – get the sharpest tool in your WP toolbox

**http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh761491.aspx – The tile template catalog (Windows Runtime apps)

**http://dotnetbyexample.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/writing-behaviors-in-pcl-for-windows.html – Writing behaviors in PCL for Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1

**http://weblogs.asp.net/jdanforth/converting-from-silverlight-to-universal-apps-themes-and-styles – Converting from Silverlight To Universal Apps – Themes and Styles

**http://t.co/XtILAvCbSF – Parsing XML File in WindowsPhone in NO TIME

**http://fixmyassets.azurewebsites.net/ – Convenient online tool for generating icons for Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps

**http://www.sharpgis.net/post/2014/05/22/Create-Universal-Map-App-In-Under-2-Minutes – Create Universal Map App In Under 2 Minutes

Azure and cloud gaming

http://ntotten.com/2012/12/20/hosting-multiple-wordpress-sites-for-free-on-windows-azure/ – A bit of a random one but going to know if you use WordPress on Azure

http://sviluppomobile.blogspot.it/2013/05/hack-to-enable-azure-mobile-services.html – Enable Azure Mobile Services for “pure” Windows Phone 7.1

http://themebot.com/free-website-templates/html-templates – Free web site templates

**http://blogs.msdn.com/b/uk_faculty_connection/archive/2014/04/01/using-cloud-services-to-make-a-leaderboard-for-a-unity-game.aspx – Using Cloud Services to make a Leaderboard for a Unity Game

Web Stuff

http://themebot.com/free-website-templates/html-templates – Free web site templates

http://www.styleshout.com/ – A CSS warehouse of goodness

http://eduonix.com/affiliates/aff-Offer-HTML5_free.html#.UhYmq5K1H15 – Free HTML 5 programming course

http://www.oinko.net/freephp/ – List of places you can put your PHP for free, if you are in to that sort of thing

http://www.000webhost.com/free-mysql-hosting – Need a mySQL DB and need it free, then look no further

https://codeproject.tv/video/5025702/creating-a-web-page-with-javascript – Creating a Web Page with JavaScript by Jon Woo

http://viralpatel.net/blogs/javascript-tips-tricks/ – 21 JavaScript Tips And Tricks For JavaScript Developers

http://blog.pluralsight.com/2013/04/22/free-asp-net-single-page-application-training/ – FREE ASP.NET Single Page Application Training

http://www.goeleven.com/guidance/waystotryideasforfree – 8 Ways to host your idea (almost) for free

http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/blog/essential-cheat-sheets-web-developers/ – 10 Essential Cheat Sheets for Web Developers

http://www.dzone.com/links/r/19_free_html5_development_tools_for_designers.html – Top 10 free web dev tools

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/577080/Create-an-HTML5-and-JavaScript-Maze-Game-with-a-ti – Procedural maze web game tutorial

http://www.dzone.com/links/r/50_fresh_resources_and_tools_for_web_developers.html – More tools for your web arsenal

**http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/buildingapps/archive/2014/04/02/bringing-winjs-cross-platform-and-open-source.aspx – Bringing WinJS cross-platform and open source

**http://madskristensen.net/post/visual-studio-extensions-for-web-developers – Visual Studio extensions for web developers (A must have if you are building for the web with Visual Studio)

**http://t.co/4M9HFblTkN – A rich new JavaScript code editor spreading to several Microsoft web sites

**http://t.co/GeH8OuJlaW – After //Build: Babylon.js

**http://t.co/RJ2XuwC5tC – Presenting Intro to Construct2 Game Development

.NET stuff

http://qink.net/page/The-Ultimate-List-of-Freely-Available-_NET-Libraries.aspx – The Ultimate List of Freely Available .NET Libraries

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lucian/archive/2013/08/15/how-to-generate-pdf-on-windows-phone-in-vb-or-c.aspx Creating PDF’s in C# or VB

**http://log.paulbetts.org/the-bait-and-switch-pcl-trick/ – The Bait and Switch PCL Trick (essential PCL reading)

**http://t.co/omFMUjQC00 – John Skeet’s blog is amazing for anything C#

Xamarin and Multi-Platform stuff

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dn630648.aspx – Build a Cross-Platform, Mobile Golf App Using C# and Xamarin

**http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2014/04/01/using-oauth-twitter-and-async-to-display-data.aspx – Using OAuth, Twitter and Async To Display Data with Xamarin.Forms

**http://blog.xamarin.com/please-sign-here-open-source-signature-component/ – Please Sign Here: Open Source Signature Component

**http://blog.galasoft.ch/posts/2014/05/mvvm-light-v4-4-with-xamarin-android-support/ – MVVM Light V4.4 with Xamarin Android support

**http://t.co/j3DjTUSAvo – Incredibly detailed post on using Azure mobile services, Xamarin and MVVMCross

mobile services, and MVVMCross **http://t.co/EmWcZ0XnR3 – Simple Show in Github extension for Xamarin Studio

**http://bit.ly/1olbHOe – Bucket load of Xamarin hacks and cute blog posts

**Xamarin/MonoGame porting demo at Windows Phone User Group UK – http://t.co/1pHc3fpe07

Random Pickings

http://www.powerframeworks.com/free-samples – Get a heads up on what makes a good PowerPoint!

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/davedev/archive/2012/07/13/announcing-the-metrogamekit-a-free-sample-starter-project-for-windows-8-casual-games-using-html5-and-javascript.aspx – the Metro game kit (before the rename)

http://www.raywenderlich.com/21320/objectively-speaking-a-crash-course-in-objective-c-ios6 – Crash Course in Objective-C for iOS 6

https://javaee7.zeef.com/arjan.tijms – Collection of Java EE 7 resources

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/africaapps/archive/2013/05/29/application-lifecycle-management-part-1-of-5.aspx – Application Management 5 part course

http://ihackers.info/how-to-tweak-the-new-multi-monitor-taskbar-in-windows-8/ – How to Tweak the New Multi-Monitor Taskbar in Windows

http://powerpointstoryboard.com/free-powerpoint-storyboard-templates/ – Free PowerPoint Storyboard Templates

http://boingboing.net/2013/09/12/becoming-a-web-developer-as-an.html – Just made me laugh, a JS web developer RPG skill tree app

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKNDml12Big – I like Monty Python and this made me laugh, so shoot me

http://www.dzone.com/links/r/26_best_responsive_metro_wordpress_themes.html – WordPress themes to live by

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzR9kLuG8Ts&feature=youtu.be – Project Spark, watch and learn!

**http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JamieAisthorpe/20140427/216323/The_Poor_Game_Developer_Tool_Kit.php – The Poor Game Developer Tool Kit

Click this NOW!!

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/12/29/play-dune-ii-free-on-your-browser.aspx – Play Dune 2 in your browser for FREE

http://benedictcumberbatchgenerator.tumblr.com/ – Listen Beetlejuice Rivendell – click here (great for a RPG game maybe)

**http://orteil.dashnet.org/gamegen – Orteil’s awesome Game Idea generator, just refresh lots of times, fun

**http://research.microsoft.com/apps/catalog/default.aspx?t=projects – Microsoft Research’s Project backlog (fascinating read)

**http://www.methodnamer.com – If you’re totally stuck when trying to come up with a good method name, try this site 🙂

Now this is the merest fraction of links, resources and sites I got in my library all from only one search. I’ll either add more to this list or do another post for specific things

Enjoy for now

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