Free Game Programmer's Stuff directory

I've started up a directory in which I hope to store a database showing as much tools, music and other stuff that is offered for free. Everything related to gameprogramming can be done there.

(Oh, I don't offer hosting, my server is not big enough for that. Only a list of all free stuff).

If you have something to offer us for free, or when you know of any free stuff, please feel free to add it to my database.
(If you find some of your stuff in there, and want it to be removed, please mail me at tricrokra@... and I'll remove it as soon as I have the time).

Click here to get there

Access denied here too.

here too, great idea though!

'access denied' won't stop me.

First of all, my apologies for this... I had to do the finishing touch in a race against the clock, I was doing this at work, and my boss wanted to close the office. Damn. I hate time pressure. I'm now using my GF's mother's PC, so I can't fix it now. Tommorrow morning, I'll fix this with top priority.

The error is that the routine that checks if you are the admin blocks you if you are not an admin, in stead of hiding the admin features. Since I *AM* the admin, I couldn't see that bug. As I said, I'll fix it tommorrow, and post here again, once it's fixed.

Thank you!

very nice ;)

Well, guys, I've fixed the problem. The directory should now be 100% accessible. (Still found myself some time to fix it today) ;)

So once again. If you got something to offer us, then please start posting it ;)

very nice idea, although it would make much more sense if you would host the content for say the next 100 years because free stuff usually gets deleted, that's the main problem with them.

Personally I hate to sign up with email and all. I signed up in thousands of pages, I'm kind of sick of it. How about something quick. you could skip the membership thing and visually control and post the entries every week or so.

Maybe I will sign up the sooner or later. BTW your Navigation doesn't work as long as Javascript is not turned on.

Other than that, great Idea and a promising start. Especially the royalty free music section is very useful, something that is highly wanted.

EDIT: Ok now I tried to sign up. It said it sent a mail to my adress (double checked), but there was no mail after about 10 minutes.

Well, first of all... e-mail adress is optional, and you don't need to sign up to make use of this list or submit to it. It's only handy if you want to use my forums and website tools.

On that mail problem on signing up. You didn't receive any e-mail you said?
That's kinda strange since you're the first to report that kind of thing.
But that's no problem. If you e-mail me your desired username and e-mail adres, I can create an account for you. (Of course I advice to change your password as soon as the account has been created)


Oh, you mean those menus on the left of the screen. They are indeed Javascript based. I could try to come up with a system that does not require Javascript, or to run the site without it, but that will need some time on the drawing board.


Yeah, I know. I already knew about Matt McFarland's site, due to the fact we had personal contact, since he hosts my "Fairy Tale" demo. That second link in that section was one that took me hours to find.

@Tricrokra,
tha's a nice initiative indeed.

Please keep on !

Sergio.

I will...
I'm going to keep my eyes and ears open for more stuff to add to this list. You can help me by doing the same, and using the submit feature to submit everything you find ;)

Thanks for the encouraging words, semar!

useful idea.
Suggestion: Why don't program some 'agent-bot' that periodically verify if a link does exist, so you could have a 'close' real time resourse directory (without dead-link...) (hey...it's an idea, free ideas coming out today without control...:))?

on the same lines as Degac's idea... if you find it to be a pain in the arse to code the bot... get a free utility that cleans your bookmarks out of dead links and bookmark everything into it's own folder... then sync the folder's bookmarks to the list...

Just a thought.

A brilliant idea.
Why didn't someone do it sooner? (-err... no, I didn't either.)
Please keep on with this, it's a great service.

Tricroka - now I received your Mail, although yahoo put it into the spam folder. But how do I access the step 2 signup page now, without to generate a new code? Or is it the same code every time?

And I don't see a link on your page to submit a game or tool link as a user that wasn't logged in.
EDIT - uh, now I see it :)

Someone (I can't remember who) did, but eventually the section was taken down for one reason or another. I'm glad somebody has taken up the mantel - cheers Tric (already found some useful links there!)

Hi Tricrokra

thanks for the GreyScale code. I have used it to great effect in my app (with a smallish change). I have also added a "thank you to Tricrokra" in my app.

The change I make was...

Added another function that does the same as the existing function but can work from a buffer direct rather than an image file...

Function GreyScale_FromBuffer(Buf,Tpe, x, y)
	Local Ret = CreateImage(x, y)
	LockBuffer ImageBuffer(Ret)
	LockBuffer Buf
	For GSX = 0 To x
		For GSY = 0 To y
			Col1 = ReadPixelFast(GSX,GSY,Buf)
			GS_SplitValue Col1
			Temp = (GSRR+GSRG+GSRB) / 3
			GSIH = 255
			Select Tpe 
				Case 1	GSIR = Temp		GSIG = 0		GSIB = 0
				Case 2	GSIR = 0		GSIG = Temp		GSIB = 0
				Case 3	GSIR = 0		GSIG = 0		GSIB = Temp
				Case 4	GSIR = Temp		GSIG = 0		GSIB = Temp
				Case 5	GSIR = Temp		GSIG = Temp		GSIB = 0
				Case 6	GSIR = 0		GSIG = Temp		GSIB = Temp
				Case 7	GSIR = Temp		GSIG = Temp		GSIB = Temp
			End Select
		Col2 = GS_JoinValue()
		WritePixelFast GSX,GSY,Col2,ImageBuffer(Ret)
		Next 
	Next
	UnlockBuffer Buf
	UnlockBuffer ImageBuffer(Ret)
	Return Ret
	
End Function

Thanks once again!

THAT is a very useful idea. Alas I lack the skills to code that in php4.
But I'll keep it in mind. If I can find out how to code that, it can save me a lot of work ;)


Don't know. But I'm not sure if I'm the first one who did this. But thanks for the comment, though!


Normally, if you use the same e-mail adres, the code generated should be the same.

At your service ;)


Yeah, I coded that function for my sequel to "The Fairy Tale", but when I decided to transfer the project from Blitz3D to BlitzMax, I didn't need that function any more. Anyway, I'm glad somebody found some good use for it.

PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED

Really? I could just load it fine from here....

The error that happened before that only admins could enter mysteriously came back. I don't know how, perhaps because my files were stored on two computer systems and tha I forgot to update the files on the last computer sytem I used to update it.

Anyway, it's fixed again.
I'll try to be more carefull with my updates from now on!