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A powerful all-purpose computer game generation tool (and 3D renderer) has become GPL. Because Blender does just about everything, it can be overwhelming to jump in to. The great number of Blender tutorials out there on the web are extreamly helpful. Here's the most useful sites for us so far:

• Blender User Interface Tutorial
• Official Blender Quickstart
  
• Inverse Kinematics (Skeletal Animation)
• Total Game Development Tutorial
• Make a Maze
• Pinball Tutorial

• Blender Game Engine Tutorial
• Blender Python Tutorial
• Blendage Tutorials
• tHe IcemAn tutorial index
• Tutorials from the OLD blender site
• Another Blender Python Tutorial

• The Free Models Project - the original FGA project that started it all
• Wanted Models - see who is looking for models or submit a request
• Free Models Project Help - useful files, links and an old FAQ

• Mike Mol's GPL Textures
• Aardappel's Free Textures
• The Serpent Lord's Quake Textures
• The Serpent Lord's Noise Textures
• Free Skins - Textures for 3D models
• p0x's Quake 1 Custom Texture WADs: poxwad02 poxwad03
• MikeeUSA's GPL textures (originally for Crystal Space)

• free Quake media - pOx's royalty free textures and other content
• vox feminae - Hellchick's free sounds
• Aardappel's Quake Maps

• Blender - It does just about everything
• Raw2map Bitmap to Terrain Convertor
• Tri2map Triangle Mesh to Terrain Convertor
• Open Quartz utilities for map compiling, making pak files, etc.
• Cartoon Outline Generator
• Mingw - free compiler for building windows programs
• Adquedit - freeware utility for editing graphics, sprites, skins, etc.
• Chuck Robert's page, an interesting collection of game material links, including some utilities second page here

• PlaneShift - A Crystal Space based MMPORG!
• Fixed Cameras - Quake Modification

• The Sword of Ares Quake Total Conversion
• Point Blank Quake
• Digital TC

• Crystal Space - the most advanced open source game engine to date
• Qbism - If you are looking for a fully functional, state of the art, open source game engine, Obism may be the one for you.
• QuakeForge - The GPL Quake engine is the most fully functional open source game engine at this time. QuakeForge is one of the best versions
• pOx's Playhouse - A great Mac GPL Quake site
• Blender - It does just about everything

• Blender - A powerful GPL 3D model and level editor (It does just about everything)
• Gimp - The ultimate 2D graphics editor
• Goose Egg - A open source model and level editor
• Pretty Poly - A promising GPL model editor still under development

• Linux - the most promising game platform in existence
• Red Hat - It has come a long ways. Learn Linux better than you now know your own OS!
• Tux Box - an actual "open source" game machine under development
• Yopy - Linux on a Pocket PC!