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The figure pictured here inspires me simply due to the massive amount of work and detail that went into it. It is a beautiful mastery of craft and a show of overcoming adversity and tribulation. May all of our work be on such a grand scale, however small the task.

Now on to the links.

Links of all kinds. Feel free to comment your own or create your own blog. Please label it ' Links ' .

PLEASE TRIPLE-CLICK ON LINKS THAT MAY BE TOO LONG TO FIT IN YOUR BLOG WINDOW, YOU CAN THEN COPY / PASTE THOSE FULL LINKS INTO YOUR URL BAR.

Important:

http://www.uvlist.net/ - The Universal Videogame List - CHECK IF YOUR GAME NAME IS TAKEN

http://vfsvip.cust.nearlyfreespeech.net/phpBB2/index.php - The VFS VIP Forums



Intellectual Inspiration:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html - Pictures of deep space, views of the universe that you may never have seen before...


Gamasutra and other Game Design Articles and Exhibits:

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20041208/sigman_01.shtml - ' Given to us but still, Game Relativity and its Link to Design Innovation, Predicting Emergent Gameplay ' .

http://www.gameproducer.net/ - Game Producer . net... Yeah

http://www.jenovachen.com/flowingames/whatisthis.htm - Flow in Games

http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/game-book/Coverpage.html - ' The Art of Computer Game Design ' .

http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=27393 - ' Ultra-Realism in Gaming ' . A bad presentation (for our standards) but good media and quite intellectually provocative. "The Room"

http://gamevideos.com/video/id/6341 - ' White Knight Story ' . Damn awesome IMO, RPG and gaming relative

Audio Inspiration:

http://www.ocremix.org/index.php - OC Remix, awesome video game Remix site. It has some really good game audio edited and created from scratch. I suggest you check out some work by Star Salzman, especially his Chrono Trigger work

3D Inspiration:

http://mods.moddb.com/ - It may take some searching, but there is a lot of good information and there are many examples on this site.

Other:

http://www.transcon.info/index.php - Language lessons with audio clips to learn both spelling as well as pronunciation. Slightly useful and interesting

May be updated at any time... Feel free to throw me suggestions to link or post yourself.