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| Voodoo VB Site of the Month |
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This month's winner VB Game Programming Web Ring An incredible new site that has the potential to become one of the cornerstones of the VB game development scene. A webring, banner exchange, chat room, projects list, and reviews site all in one. It was only created recently but it growing at a really fast pace! |
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Previous Winners DirectX 4 VB Lucky's VB Gaming Page Shado LTD The Black Hole VB Gaming Central Ancient Code Red Links = the site has been shut down, it no longer exists. |
| VB Game Development Websites |
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Anton's VB Gaming Page - Some tutorials including playing wav files and 3d starfields. Cason's VB Programming - Some DirectX 7 tutorials (DirectDraw, DirectSound, etc.) Corner of the Developer of Games - Lots of great tutorials covering 3D, 2D, music, input, and directplay DirectX 4 VB - Tons of tutorials on both DirectX 7 and DirectX 8. JakRabbit's VB Den - features a DirectFont Engine Lucky's VB Gaming Page - It's Lucky's site - it rocks =) Non-Linear Solutions - Advanced articles and source code, an excellent site. Planet Source Code - Thousands of source code examples ready for download. The Black Hole - Many files and articles - focused on RPG development. The Programming Sharehouse - Offers links to many other sites. The VB Zone - Some simple tutorials, a promising page. VB Area 51 - Patrice Scribe's website. VB Flux - Interesting projects and resources. VB Games - features tutorials and source code. VB Gaming Planet - Articles and tutorials on RPG development. |
| VB Engines and Libraries |
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Megalodon - Features a 2D tile engine, map editor, and item editor Micheal Braitmaier's VB Page - An awesome DirectShow dll that allows avi streaming to a DirectDraw surface. Revolution 3D Engine - An awesome 3D engine created in VB. SR Interactive - Sprite Master utility. TrueVision - Another awesome vb 3D engine |
| VB Game Developers |
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Apple Cat Studios - VB adventure game in development. BlueCat Studios - Developers of BombermanVB. Boneheads Interactive - Developers of SUP 2000. C.I.G Games - Developers of Space Warriors 1 and 2. Darkness Rising - Very promising VB community project in development. Deep Space - A great looking space shooter in progress. Divided Realms - FF-style RPG in development. Eyesight Developments - Final Frontier, a space action game. Galaxy - A sweet space action game, alpha version available. Luminous Software - Co-developers of Tactics Legend 2. MartWare - Developer of fun, small games. Matt's Gaming Projects - Completed and in-progress games by Brykovian. Mindportal Entertainment - Developers of Galactic Wars. Nobis Productions - Several games, finished and in development. Quadrant Wars - Massively multiplayer strategy game in development QTD Entertainment - Developers of StellarX. Talos Studios - My own game company =) Creators of DDCK. Wild West - Great looking action/rpg in development VB Limits - Developer of a new space themed game. Xode Multimedia - Battlefire 1-3 and Battlefire 4 in development. |
| VB News, Reviews, and Previews sites. |
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VBGamer - The main vb game news site. The Nexus - The main vb game news site. VB Game Programming Web Ring - Awesome new community site. VB Gaming Planet - Some reviews and previews |
| Game Development Websites |
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Flipcode - Daily game development news and resources. Features, articles, source, etc. Gamasutra - Articles about game development, many written by professionals. Gamedev.net - Huge game development site with many tutorials, articles, and resources. Game Development Search Engine - Search engine for all things game dev related. Game Institute - Online game programming classes. Adam Hoult, former webmaster of VBGC teaches a class here =) IsoMetrix - Nice site with lots of resources for everything isometric related. |
| Programming Websites |
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Programmer's Heaven - Huge site with plenty of resources for many different programming languages. Visual Basic Programming Zone - Large resource for Visual Basic programmers. Features articles, code, tips, and tools. VB Wire - Non-stop Visual Basic news, as well as a large links list. |
| Free Art Software |
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3D Canvas - 3D modeller similar to Caligari's Truespace. This one was made in VB. Blender - Very powerful and professional 3D modelling and rendering package. Gimp - 2D Image manipulation program similar to Photoshop. |
| Art Resources |
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3D Cafe - Huge 3D art site, features many free models, textures, and tutorials. Peter Sharpe's Bryce 3D Tutorials - Very nice tutorials for users of Bryce3D. Third Dimension - Very nice tutorials about modelling the human body in 3D. |
| Game Publishing and Distribution |
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Free Games - A free games listings website GarageDeveloper International - publisher of indie games. Garage Games - Publisher of indie games, offers the Tribes 2 engine to its developers for $100. GameHippo - Huge and popular freeware games site. Program Files - Huge site, also mirrors your files. |