Links
Here are links to various partners, friends, affiliates, resources and competitors.
Affiliates
www.spineforge.net
spineFORGE, founded by our own Chris Rose-Mathew, develops the software framework we build our games on.
Resources :: Local Sites
www.nag.co.za
The centre of gaming in South Africa. Full stop.
www.sagamedev.co.za
This site is the original game development lobby for South African pioneers. Activity has lulled since we all got real jobs, but not for long!
www.gamedev.co.za
A new industry site with articles, forums and a brand new magazine!
Resources :: International Sites
www.gamedev.net
Gamedev is one of the best sites for not only game development, but as a great resource for general immersive digital environment information. After all, many immersive technology products these days are entertainment derived. Great forums, a million useful articles and hints.
www.flipcode.com
A similar site to gamedev above, and just as useful. Updates to the site recently stopped for some reason, but the site is still archived for picking through.
www.gamasutra.com
A great resource for industry and technology news and articles. Host a lot of product development postmortems.
www.vterrain.org
An amazing website for anyone interested in building digital terrain models. This site offers info on everything from texturing, to culture mapping to loading GIS data formats. It also offers many links to white papers and other useful resources.
www.ati.com
The home page of one of the manufacturers of powerful modern day graphics devices. ATI are innovators in many aspects of 3D graphics technologies.
www.nvidia.com
Another of the manufacturers of powerful modern day graphics devices. nVidia designed the cG shader programming language and provide many useful developer resources to get up and running building graphical applications.
www.microsoft.com
THE behemoth of computing. This company has been around since the beginning of personal computing and provides such products and services as the Windows platform, .NET framework and XNA game development kit.
www.intel.com
Intel and AMD below are the two great monopolies of computer processors. These two go head to head in the processor clock-cycle war.
www.sun.org
Sun are best known for their Solaris computing systems, the Java language and J2EE enterprise development environment. Also creators of the powerful, mobile Java3D API
www.w3c.org
The W3C are a standards body governing many useful open web standards that allow interoperability amongst many disparate web sources and agents.
www.unrealtechnology.com
A world leader in immersive products. This company broke into the big time with Unreal, a PC-based first-person-shooter computer game, with amazing full-color graphics and an amazing worlds to battle through. Since then the company has become one of the leading vendors of computer game technology and is now expanding to offer products that cover fields such as architectural visualization and others.
www.idsoftware.com
The makers of the original 3D FPS, Wolfenstein, and hailed as one of the greatest developers of immersive games. Their engines have been used to develop many world-beating titles. John Carmack, one of id's founders is now pursuing an interesting side-project, Armadillo Airspace, making spacerockets.
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