If you're making a game this year, here's some logo images you can use in your splash screen. Also, consider putting a link to the NaGaDeMo homepage as well!
- Inspiration
- Rise of the Videogame Zinesters (physical book; referral-free Amazon link)
- The Art of Game Design
- Oblique Strategies
- Random Page from English Wikipedia
- I started designing games...
- Game Biz Advice
- 49 Ideas for Game Clones to Code
- Finishing A Game
- Tutorials
- Unity Tutorials
- NeHe OpenGL Tutorials (low-level graphics programming directions that have been around for ages)
- Pixelart Tutorials
- Guide to Implementing 2D Platformers
- Flash Game Tutorials
- Aurora Engine (Neverwinter Nights) Tutorial [PDF]
- HgInit (introduction to source control using Mercurial)
- Git Basics (introduction to source control using Git)
- Game Engines
- 2D Games
- Stencyl (Flash, iOS; feature-limited free version available)
- GameSalad (Mac; deploys to Mac, mobile, and web)
- GameMaker (Windows, Mac; deploys to Windows, Mac, and web; commercial with free Lite versions)
- pygame (Windows, Mac, Linux; free)
- Akihabara (HTML5; free)
- LimeJS (HTML5; free)
- MelonJS (HTML5; free)
- LÖVE (Windows, Mac, Linux; free)
- Angel (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS; free)
- AngelXNA (Windows, Xbox 360; free)
- Cocos2D (Windows, Mac, Linux; free)
- Cocos2D-iPhone (Mac, iOS; free)
- Sparrow (Mac, iOS; free)
- Flixel (Flash; free)
- FlashPunk (Flash; free)
- 3D Games
- Unity (Windows, Mac; deploys to Windows, Mac, Web, Mobile; feature-limited free version available)
- Unreal Development Kit (Windows; deploys to Windows, mobile; free for non-commercial use)
- CryENGINE SDK (Windows; free for non-commercial use)
- MonoGame (Windows, Mac, Linux, mobile; free)
- ZGameEditor (Windows; deploys to Windows, Mac, and Linux; free)
- Panda3D (Windows, Mac, Linux; free)
- Interactive Fiction / Adventure / Role-Playing Games
- Inform (Windows, Mac, Linux; free)
- Ren'Py (Windows, Mac, Linux; free)
- ChoiceScript (Downloadable, browser-based; free)
- (Windows; free)
- RPG Maker (Windows; free trial version)
- Moddable Games
- 2D Games
- Tools
- Text Editors
- Sublime Text (Windows, Mac, Linux; shareware)
- TextMate (Mac; shareware)
- jEdit (Windows, Mac, Linux; free)
- Notepad++ (Windows; free)
- vim (Windows, Mac, Linux; free)
- 3D Modeling
- 2D Image Creation
- Photoshop (Windows, Mac; commercial with free trial)
- GIMP (Windows, Mac, Linux; free)
- Aviary Phoenix (Browser-based; free)
- deviantART muro (Browser-based; free
- pixlr (Browser-based; free)
- Paint.NET (Windows; free)
- Pixelmator (Mac; commercial with free trial)
- Pickle (Adobe Air; free with recommended donation)
- Sound Editing and Creation
- Collaboration
- Dropbox (Easy file sharing)
- Box (Easy file sharing)
- Bitbucket (Mercurial and Git project hosting)
- GitHub (Git project hosting)
- Google Project Hosting (Mercurial, Git, and Subversion project hosting)
- Miscellaneous
- Fraps (Screen capture — Windows; free version has watermarks)
- SnapzProX (Screen capture — Mac; free version adds watermarks after trial period)
- Tiled Map Editor (General purpose editor for 2d maps — Windows, Mac, Linux; free)
- Text Editors
- Free Assets