Once and for all: Resources

wogan

The question of "what do you use" and "where can I find a ___" comes up every now and then. I've been digging through all of those old forum threads, and am slowly building up a Trello board with everything on it.

https://trello.com/b/QHm3K2Kp/indie-resources

It'll be a work-in-progress for quite a while, so if there's anything I've missed, please let me know!

raxter

this is legit! Thanks!

I know there are some useful forums listed here http://www.pixelprospector.com/the-big-list-of-indie-game-development-forums/

Notibly
http://forums.tigsource.com/
http://indiedevhour.co.uk/forum/

wogan

@raxter Ahh, how could I forget tigsource? I'll get those added, thanks!

wogan

Alright, a pile of updates have been made:
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• New list for Events and Competitions with 6 entries
  
• New list for Conferences with 2 entries
  
• New list for Marketing and Promotions with 7 entries
  
• 6 new Engines and Frameworks entries
  
• 3 new Community and Support entries
  
• 3 new News and Blogs entries
  
• 3 new Online Distribution entries
  

The press stuff looks really useful, and I find it incredibly ironic that there's actually a game distribution platform called Gamers Gate, has been around for many years. Imagine their traffic spike in the last 2 months :D

https://trello.com/b/QHm3K2Kp/indie-resources

guineapixel

@wogan cool collection!

Have you ever used Fiverr?... marketing, audio, graphics anything really. Check it out... http://fiverr.com

wogan

guineapixel said:

Have you ever used Fiverr?... marketing, audio, graphics anything really. Check it out... http://fiverr.com

I haven't, but I have heard of it. There are quite a few marketplaces for outsourced work, I'm still gathering a list. Do you know of any others?

guineapixel

@wogan - I'm not really familiar with other outsourcing sites, the only reason I used Fiverr is coz it's so cheap.

I thought there was a column for asset stores, my bad. Maybe we add an extra column for top 10 asset stores? e.g. Unity Store, market.envato.com etc

petrc

I have few more if you want.

http://phaser.io/- Javascript/Typescript game framework

http://www.ctrlpaint.com/ - Tutorials on digital painting

http://freemusicarchive.org/ - Music with CC licensing

eSculpt

for 3D artists looking to invest in some classes (not too expensive if you don't pay extra for crit) :

mostly character stuff, but really big names doing extensive epic classes in there

https://www.uartsy.com/catalog

Boysano

You can add udemy for courses

wogan

Alright, I've added those suggestions (thanks @guineapixel, @petrc, @eSculpt and @Boysano) - along with cgtextures.com, which has an impressive collection of freely-downloadable textures!

https://trello.com/b/QHm3K2Kp/indie-resources

Fengol

Please can you add http://game-icons.net/ (2D icon images) and http://www.blambot.com/ (fonts) to Art and Language as I use them a heck of a lot!

You also need to add https://www.audiotool.com/ to Music and Sound