This page is a selection of projects, products, or tutorials that I have found very helpful while maintaining this site. It covers a wide variety of topics, but all are central to launching an App. It is actively maintained as new products and pages become available.
Software and/or Services Actually Used on the Site
Amazon Web Services – This is where my site will be hosted.
EC2 User Guide – Amazon’s user guide in pdf
WordPress – is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
Customizr – The WordPress Theme that I started with. It is by Themes & Co.
Supporting Software Used Locally on my PC
Putty – The world famous ssh client
PuttyGen – Used to create the private keys for Putty when connecting to aws
Vi – This is my favorite vi editor for Widows. I keep going back to it because there is no install, and you can take it everywhere on a USB key.
Tools Used for Graphic Manipulation
gimp – Think Photoshop, but free. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
Paint.Net – A image tool that is that is less complex than Photoshop or Gimp, but still gets the job done.
libGDX Tutorials
These are listed more so that I can keep track of useful links.
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/page/LibGDX-Tutorial-series.aspx
Resources for Android
Android Downloads – Android Supported Developer Downloads
Android Developer Blog – Lots of good resources here, it just takes some searching and reading
Android Design Videos – Many of the conference talks an Android are available on uTube.
Other Projects that May Relate to App Development
These are project that I can not vouch for, but have found while researching this site and want to document them so that I have chance to go back to them later.
Tiled – Your free, easy to use and flexible tile map editor
Spine – Awesome 2D Animation software – It is not free, but is worth a link.
Projects that May Relate to App Development
Creating Sequence Diagrams
https://www.websequencediagrams.com/
Project Management/Agile Boards
Trello is the free, flexible, and visual way to organize anything with anyone
Other Items I Might Look into Later
Inventory icons to purchase/license from 7Soul on gamedevmarket.net:
http://www.gamedevmarket.net/asset/16×16-icons-for-rpg-pack-1-915/
Nature sounds under the CC BY 3.0 License:
http://archive.org/details/Sounds_of_Nature_Collection
Other sounds and instruments:
http://tracker.modarchive.org/