Academic and Educational Game Resources
Site | Comments |
The Education Arcade | An organization focused on advancing the field of educational gaming |
Water Cooler Games | Not limited to education. This site discusses various non-entertainment applications of games, including education. |
Room 130 | General research in games. The articles by Gee are particularly informative |
Game Research | A general hub for game-related research |
Digital Games Research Association | Another game research organization |
Game Culture | Focusing on the cultural aspects of games and gaming |
LEVEL UP | A conference devoted to game research. |
SGX - Simulation/Gaming eXchange | A collection of links related to Simulation/Gaming |
Simulation & Games for Education | Another large page of links |
Serious Games | An organization working to bring together the game industry and non-entertainment applications |
Video Game Scholarship (Teaching Wiki) | Summaries and links to papers related to educational games |
Academic Gamers | Another website on the academic study of games |
The locker metaphor to teach dynamic memory | An example of teaching by metaphor |
All Game's Genre and Style Guide | An exhaustive summary of game genres and subgenres |
Torque Engine Resources
Site | Comments |
Garage Games | The creators of the Torque engine, and the best source of resources pertaining to it |
CodeSampler.com | A site with a very good set of tutorials that introduce the scripting side of Torque |
General 3D Engine Resources
Site | Comments |
Irrlicht | Open source, cross-platform 3D engine |
Quake 2 | The source to the classic game. |
Unreal Runtime | A stripped-down Unreal Tournament 2004 engine (not for use in games of any sort) |
Revolution3D | A promising 3D engine |
Torque | The descendant of the Tribes 2 engine |
Nebula Device | The engine used in Project Nomads |
Crystal Space | A popular open-source engine |
Neo Engine | A new, growing 3D engine |
3D Engines.Net | A directory of many modern 3D engines |
Ogre 3D | A highly-OO graphics framework |
Biology Resources
Site | Comments |
Kimball's Biology Pages | An extensive glossary of Cellular Biology concepts and terms |
NHC Biology Links | Many links to pages on a wide variety of topics in Biology |
The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology | One of the (many) descriptions of the processes surrounding protein synthesis |
John Kyrk's Website | Excellent (Flash animation) visualizations of processes in Cellular Biology |
Biological Animations | More excellent visualization animations. Not as professional as Kyrk's, but very hepful nonetheless. |