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

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
**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

Monster set of FREE resources for game design – Updated 2014-07