Dev Resources
- GameDev Community - you need to bookmark this, regardless of your programming language of choice
- Indiegamer Dev Forums - A lot of business-y information and technical stuff, worthy of a bookmark
- FreeGameDev wiki: - 2D and 3D art and audio assets, fantastic list ... sometimes a little out of date
- 12 Business Tips - Fantastic suggestions from a veteran indie game developer
- Indie Dev Goldmine - All indie devs will find something of use in this list of must have links.
- IGF Dev - This website, or rather the posts on it that fall into the "for the devs" category.
This is Not a Review Blog!
Indie Game Fan is just a "general indie gaming" type of site, one of many hundreds (thousands?), and while it may have the odd opinion post published from time to time, it isn't intended to be an "X-out-of-10" type of blog. There are probably ten thousand blogs already doing that just fine. Some even do it well!
If you want to read reviews, and have somehow landed here looking for a suggestion, here are a few links to what I consider "good" sites.
- Out of Eight - James Allen writes detailed reviews. Very little in the way of screenshots or videos (read: none). Text-heavy.
- Rock, Paper, Shotgun - Lots of gaming news and reviews. The "Wot I Think" articles are effective and seem honest. Lots of images and videos, lots of opinion.
- Gaming forums! The general gaming forums (like Penny Arcade, Something Awful's game section, the Bay 12 "Other Games" forum, Facepunch) are my favorite places to get reviews. You don't have to register to read them (except, sometimes, Something Awful), but the discussions tend to be very frank and informative.
Thanks for the Read!
