DEVELOPER RESOURCES
Web sites, books, and software applications that we find helpful.

Books and Journals
MSU Game Design and Development Resources - useful site on finding game design and devlopment books, journals and resources online and at the library.

Programmnig
Gamasutra - here's a site that discusses Game Design & Programing, Art, Music, and publishing your games.
About.com's C/C++ Game Development Resources - lot's of info on programming games in C or C++.
Game Development Search Engine - site dedicated to finding resources and showing off your stuff.
Java Arcade - good examples of what you can do even with the limitations of Java.
Game Developer - Has various tools for game programming and some source code for older commercial and shareware games, like Chess, Doom & Wolfenstein 3D.
openGL - some resources for getting a start with openGL
Javasoft - Java home page
JBuilder- Inprise's fully integrated IDE for Java.
Forte - Sun's fully integrated IDE for Java.
Progar.com - a programming search engine
RPGamer - info on building RPG's

Game Companies
3DO - home of one of the founding members of Spartasoft.
Gamelan - Has articles & sample source code for Java Applets, and some info on gaming.
NeverWinter Nights - Site for a new game slated for simultaneous release on BeOS, Linux, Mac, and Windows. Nice image gallery, developers notes, etc.
Outrage - makers of Decent 3
Gamedev.net
Flipcode
Makegames.com
Jars.com - very similar to gamelan
JavaWorld - webzine

Art and Animation
Nichimen - Makers of Nendo animation package
MetaCreations
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Newsgroups
comp.games.development.programming.algorithms
comp.games.development.programming.misc
comp.games.development.design
comp.games.development.industry
comp.games.development.audio
comp.games.development.art
comp.ai.games

comp.lang.java.programmer