Autodesk
About Autodesk in Games:
Autodesk provides powerful, integrated content creation tools and production-proven middleware, enabling game artists and developers to help create more innovative in-game experiences. For additional information about Autodesk, visit www.autodesk.com

• www.autodesk.com/edcommunity
6-month trial versions for 3ds Max and Maya for students
Curriculum and learning resources
• www.autodesk.com/creativecareers
Short interviews and biographies from young professionals
• www.area.autodesk.com
Entertainment and Visualization community site
Blogs, downloads, galleries, archived MasterClasses, and more

Concept Share
ConceptShare is the preferred collaboration platform for creative professionals around the world to share, graphically markup and review Print, Web and Video files. ConceptShare is used by freelancers, boutique studios and some of the biggest brands in the gaming industry who have come to rely on it as their go-to collaboration tool for design reviews. What do customers have to say about ConceptShare?

Conceptshare has become an integral part of our ability to serve our customers and clients in the game and film industry. Our studio provides visual direction and production design in an industry that until recently relied largely on internal staff concept artists and art directors to provide the bulk of those services. The reason for this is that the feedback loop has to be incredibly tight and many art directors have had poor experiences relying on external artists too heavily. Our goal, at Timbuk2 Studios, has been to supplement the output capacity of internal art teams with our primarily 2d art services. We have found that because of the great blend of user friendliness and communication and graphic tools available on Conceptshare, it is easy for our clients ( art directors and other production leads ) to utilize the workspaces as easy places to track their projects and communicate with us in ways that are both efficient and convenient for them. I think we have found also that being able to assign tasks has allowed our artists to more easily keep track of task assignments generated from daily feedback given by clients.

fmod
Firelight Technologies doesn't just make audio products, we pride ourselves on making audio solutions for computer games developers. FMOD is a complete audio engine, which will handle all of the sound requirements of a game from 3D sound, to interactive music. FMOD Ex includes all of the tools required to easily use these features in your game world. We have gained a strong reputation for ease of use, powerful software-mixed architecture and comprehensive cross-platform support.

Fotolia

Fotolia is the first worldwide social marketplace for royalty free stock images, allowing individuals and professionals to legally buy and share stock images and illustrations.

Fotolia offers the largest image bank of free and affordable royalty free photos and illustrations perfect for any medium, web or print.

Photographers and designers constantly update Fotolia with thousands of new photos and illustrations each day, while photographers and designers receive commission from each photo sold and revenue from advertising on the free section.

Imagine Cup

Everything that the world may become "someday" lies in the hands of young people today. As they look at the road ahead, their close relationship with technology enables them to dream in ways we never have before. Put the two together, and you have young minds holding the tools that can make their vision a reality.

This is the recipe that inspired Microsoft to create the Imagine Cup. What begins with a burst of inspiration and a lot of hard work can become a future software breakthrough, a future career, or a flourishing new industry. The Imagine Cup encourages young people to apply their imagination, their passion and their creativity to technology innovations that can make a difference in the world – today. Now in its eighth year, the Imagine Cup has grown to be a truly global competition focused on finding solutions to real world issues.

Indie Cade
IndieCade, the International Festival of Independent Games, invites participants to submit games created at the Global Game Jam for consideration in its 2010 Festival, taking place in October in Culver City, CA. Now in it’s third year, IndieCade is the only stand-alone indie game festival in the U.S., and the only one that is open to the public. In support of the Global Game Jam, IndieCade has established a special discount for Global Game Jam games. To get the special discount, go to the submissions page at www.indiecade.com and use the code GGJ2010. An announcement will be sent to the Global Game Jam list when submissions open in February.

Mixamo

Mixamo gives you the power to create production-quality character animations in a fraction of the time that traditional motion capture and keyframing require. It's as simple as 1-2-3:

*Explore*: select from a vast collection of high-quality character motions
*Customize*: use your own skeletons and skins, along with our intuitive motion parameter sliders, to create personalized character animations
*Download*: after creating the perfect motion for your needs, download it straight into your art pipeline, seamlessly

Available 24/7, Mixamo makes life easier for 3D character animation professionals.

Mo'Minis
Mo'Minis offers a revolutionary solution for the fast creation, porting and publishing of mobile games and entertainment applications. Mo'Minis platform allows advanced as well as non-skilled developers to rapidly create original quality games from scratch, without the need of programming, and have them seamlessly supported on a wide range of mobile handsets.

Mo'Minis world-wide developers community utilize the platform for the creation of innovative content, which is monetized through Mo'Minis solid distribution network.

NYU Game Center

The New York University Game Center is an independent, multi-school center for the research, design and development of digital games. The Center is housed at the Tisch School in the Skirball Center for New Media and is a collaboration with NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, and the Polytechnic Institute of NYU. The goal of the center is to serve as a dynamic training ground of the future creative and business leaders of the gaming field and have a major impact on the game industry and the evolution of games as an art form, a mode of entertainment, an economic force, and a cultural practice.
http://gamecenter.nyu.edu

SoCalWeb
For over 10 years Socalweb has been providing comprehensive managed hosting and professional Linux consulting services. Whether it's just a single server, or a web farm in a load balanced high availability environment - we can create the right solution to fit your needs.

No gimmicks, no fancy marketing, no sales staff, only consistent high-level personal service and support.

Torque

Available for nearly every platform and specialized separately for 3D and 2D games, Torque is the most licensed engine middleware in the games industry. The Torque community is now home to 150,000+ game developers and artists with additional licensees of more than 200 universities and schools for computer science and game design curricula.

Torque is a constantly evolving technology built for speed and ease of use. We reinvest in Torque aggressively with 40+ experienced developers working on the technology. Available on the PC, Mac, Wii, Xbox 360, iPhone, web, and more, Torque stays up to date on relevant platforms and ahead of the curve in performance. Torque's licensees include scrappy innovators and industry giants alike, as you can see below.

Torque provides dedicated personnel for custom support on Torque projects. With some of the best developers in the industry at your back, your project is assured to come together on time and a success.

Video Game Voters Network
The Video Game Voters Network is a place for American gamers to organize and defend against threats to video games by registering to vote and letting Congress know how important this issue is to the community. The Network also enables gamers to stay educated about issues, reach out to federal, state, and local officials, and register to vote. The Video Game Voters Network is a project sponsored by the Entertainment Software Association, a trade group representing America’s video game publishers. For more information, visit www.videogamevoters.org

XNA Game Studio
The XNA Creators Club is a community all about games made by you and creators like you. It’s easy to join at http://creators.xna.com and you can download the tools software for free at http://creators.xna.com/downloads . You’ll get powerful tools for making your own games on Windows and Xbox 360, and an arsenal of educational and community resources on the XNA Creators Club Online Web site. Create your games, submit them for review by the community, and get the games you create onto Xbox LIVE Marketplace. It’s game development for everyone.

Microsoft® XNA® Game Studio 3.1 enables hobbyists, academics, and independent game developers to easily create video games for Xbox 360, Windows, and Zune by using optimized cross-platform gaming libraries based on the .NET Framework in the C# programming language. This latest version introduces Avatar support, LIVE Party support, video playback, audio API improvements and more, making it even easier to distribute over Xbox LIVE.