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0verkill
0verkill is bloody 2D action deathmatch-like game in ASCII-ART.
A roguelike game of Cowboy Knights and Lurking Horror.
Ad Astra is a turn-based space strategy game written in Python that uses curses for its display.
A curses mode minesweeper solvable without guessing, and the only with von Neumann neighbourhoods.
Play: ssh play@anonymine-demo.oskog97.com -p 2222
aop
Ambassador of Pain (aop). A very nice and challenging arcade game.
Arkanoid is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. Written on Bash.
See also Wikipedia.
Arkanoid is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. Written on Python.
See also Wikipedia.
Arkanoid is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. Written on Sed.
See also Wikipedia.
AliensRL is a tactical roguelike game, inspired by the 'Aliens' movie.
another good variant of the space invaders game.
Angband is a free, single-player dungeon exploration game.
An exploration game. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
Play: https://grack.com/demos/adventure/
ADOM is a roguelike game.
quiz on simple arithmetic
asciijump is an ASCII art game about ski jumping.
ASCIIpOrtal is a text based puzzle game inspired by the popular video game.
Astwar is a ncurses based game that features two little ships on each side of the screen shooting each other.
asciisector is a free space combat/exploration/trading game.
air traffic controller game. It's a BSD game.
avanor
Rogue-like game with easy ADOM-like user interface.
Bastet (short for Bastard Tetris).
punched card
See also Wikipedia.
The game Beasts is a Linux version of the old DOS game called Beast.
See also Wikipedia.
This game is the same as the old Blitz16 game on Commodore 16/Plus 4, written by Simon Taylor.
boulder dash
A Boulder Dash game clone for your favorite terminal. You are trapped in the CAVEZ of PHEAR, your mission is to escape through all the caves and make it out alive. To escape through a cave you will have to find all the diamonds located in it. Once you've found all the diamonds, their powers combined will help you get to the next cave, one step closer to freedom.
See also Wikipedia.
Uses character-cell graphics with a visual point-and-shoot interface.
A backgammon game; you can play against the computer. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
A highly conceptual game in which you interact with abstract concepts and mathematical entities as if they were tangible.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
blocks
A block-based puzzle game.
The Blue Moon card solitaire.
Brogue is a Roguelike game.
A nice version of the mastermind game.
A tropical adventure game. It's a BSD game.
bj
a black-jack card game.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
Word search game. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
Battleships game. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
Python bowling game using the Blessed terminal library.
decrypt caesar cyphers
See also Wikipedia.
a multi-player card game, written by Hero
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
cataclysm
A Zombie Survival Roguelike.
The solitaire card game canfield. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
A highly unusual 'infinite' adventure game written by Chris Newall.
cavez of phear
cavez of phear is a boulder dash / digger like game for console using ncurses.
a set of sliding-block puzzles.
A implementation of the classic Battleship game in C++. Includes a server program, and multiple different client programs. The server program wait's until two client program connected to start a game. The server dictates the rules of the game.
A challenging puzzle game.
minesweeper.
Another Nibbles game with good and smooth animations.
Chess implemented in sed utility.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic world. Surviving is difficult: you have been thrown, ill-equipped, into a landscape now riddled with monstrosities of which flesh eating zombies are neither the strangest nor the deadliest.
Curses implementation of the laser board game Khet.
Play: ssh ckhet@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: ckhet
Clines is a standard 'Lines' game, implemented as a curses application.
Color Lines clone in console.
Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as ADVENT, Colossal Cave, or Adventure) is one of the earliest computer adventure games and a precursor form of role playing video game. The original version was designed by Will Crowther, a programmer and caving enthusiast who based the layout on part of the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky.
a two-player board game, written by Alexi
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
a two-player slot game, written by Sarac
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
The Connect4 game using ncurses C library.
A multiplayer galactic game.
a real-time, multi-player space warfare game.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
a two-player board game, written by Unk
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
Core War is a programming game created by D. G. Jones and A. K. Dewdney in which two or more battle programs (called “warriors”) compete for control of a virtual computer.
CPat is probably the best card game for the Linux console; it is a collection of many solitaire/patience games from the most famous to less known games.
Another version of the tetris game.
A game with a hacking atmosphere.
One of the best games for the Linux console.
The card game cribbage. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
Escape From The Crypt.
Curse of War is a fast-paced action strategy game for Linux originally implemented using ncurses user interface.
Dots and Boxes game.
DiabloRL is a roguelike 'unmake' of the popular Blizzard game Diablo.
Duel Commander is a turn based command line fighting game for Windows and Unix-like systems.
DoomRL (Doom, the Roguelike) is a fast and furious coffee-break Roguelike game, that is heavily inspired by the popular FPS game Doom by ID Software.
A funny game about trading drugs. Dopewars is a free rewrite of a game originally based on Drug Wars by John E. Dell.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
dSol is a command line solitaire card game.
Dungeon Crawl, a text-based roguelike game.
Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy game.
A puzzle game where items have to be collected in the right order.
Actually it is not a game, but text editor. It includes a bunch of text games like chess, sokoban, pong etc.
Another variant of Angband.
Encircled is a roguelike game.
factor a number, generate primes
See also Wikipedia.
F-Bird, a text bootsector game
Play ``Go Fish'. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
print a random, hopefully interesting, adage
See also Wikipedia.
This is a console (ncurses) version of the popular and addictive solitaire game.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
Another minesweeper-style game.
minesweeper game using curses.
Freesweep is a console minesweeper-style game written in C for Unix-like systems.
Frotz is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games.
A very nice roguelike game with an entertaining atmosphere.
Find the lost lifeboats from an interstellar liner.
GNU Chess is a chess-playing program.
Play: telnet freechess.org 5000 (login guest)
GNUSki is an open source clone of Skifree, the old Windows game.
GNU Go is a free program that plays the game of Go.
GearHead is the first roguelike to explore the world of “mechas” (giant robots).
gnake
Another variant of the snake game with a smooth movement.
Gomoku is a two player game where the object is to get 5 in a row horizontally, vertically or diagonally on a 19 by 19 grid. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
Goblin Hack is a roguelike opengl-based smooth-scrolling ASCII graphics game.
An free/opensource casino text-console game with 5 slot machines, 3 roulette tables including russian roulette, 2 dice games, a bank and stock market.
grand digital clock (curses)
A puzzle game with numbers. You must remove as many numbers as you can according to the rules.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
The Hack of Life is a roguelike game based on Conway’s Game of Life.
Exploring The Dungeons of Doom. It's a BSD game.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
Computer version of the game hangman. It's a BSD game.
The object of the game hunt is to kill off the other players. There are no rooms, no treasures, and no monsters. Instead, you wander around a maze, find grenades, trip mines, and shoot down walls and players. It's a BSD game.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
A fork of BSD hunt with colour and realtime processing
Play: ssh hunt@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: kalte
hrd
the puzzle game of HuaRongDao
Hinversi is a implementation of Reversi (a.k.a. Othello), a board game.
Hamurabi is a 1969 text-based game of land and resource management and is one of the earliest computer games. Its name is a shortening of Hammurabi, reduced to fit an eight-character limit.
See also Wikipedia.
halls of mist
A nice roguelike game (variant of angband).
Hellband is a Rogue-like game in which you descend through the nine circles of Hell and find an even more dangerous Hell beyond the city of Dis.
hydra slayer
A nice and easy roguelike game.
Invaders game in 512 bytes (boot sector)
nInvaders is a Space Invaders clone based on ncurses for ASCII output.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
An ASCII-art game like Space Invaders
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
A game of competitive puzzle-design. At its core, this is an abstract turn-based puzzle game in which you pick a lock by co-ordinating a pair of tools to manipulate its mechanism. The locks you pick are designed by other players; once you have figured out the secret of how to pick a lock, you must secure that secret behind a lock of your own devising.
Play: ssh intricacy@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: intricacy
Imperium is a game of intergalactic exploration, warfare, and economics. Imperium has no set goal, and fairly flexible rules about what you can do, thus, while a single player could run their own game just for the fun of exploration, they would be missing out on most of the aspects of the game with no one to compete against.
Roguelike in which your commands are enacted after a few turns' delay.
Play: ssh lagrogue@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: lag
Exploring the caverns of Larn. It's a BSD game.
Legend of the Red Dragon (LORD) is a text-based online role-playing game.
See also Wikipedia.
Play: telnet darkrealms.ca
Ambitious dungeon simulator with roguelike elements.
This is a very elaborated game where you have to fight with your friends against conservative laws.
a multi-player card game, written by Hero
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
Lexter is a real-time word puzzle for text terminals. Arrange the falling letters into words to score points.
Implementation of the simple board game called Mancala.
manhunt
Play: telnet on twenex.org
matanza
Space ascii war game.
This is a multiplayer variant of angband.
A simple version of the Mastermind game.
Dr. Mario
Dr. Mario or BUGS is a clone of Nentendo’s Dr. Mario, well sort of.
See also Wikipedia.
mgt
Go is an ancient oriental strategy game based on the capturing of territory.
A simple snake game written in C using the ncurses library.
Micro Snake is based on a simple snake game by Simon Huggins.
A racing card game in BSD games based on the Parker Brothers game Mille Bornes. It's a BSD game.
miscom
A curses-based game where you must defend cities from missile attack. It’s essentially a clone of Atari’s “Missile Command” (with some minor enhancements) for terminals, and has colour and sound.
The game is set in Moria and the goal is to kill off the balrog.
Moo (a.k.a. Mastermind) supervisor and a very powerful Moo player.
A sort of monopoly game. At least two players are needed.
Monopoly game. It's a BSD game.
Moon-buggy is a simple character graphics game where you drive some kind of car across the moon's surface.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
Mutant Aliens! sees a spaceship 'dock safely' into the forest of a hostile alien world.
MyMan is a video game for color and monochrome text terminals in the genre of Namco's Pac-Man.
n2048 is a console-based game based on the highly addictive sliding puzzle 2048. Slide the tiles together to combine them, until you reach the highest one.
Conway's Game of Life in C++ using ncurses.
NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text interfaces all using the same game engine.
Play: telnet on nethack.alt.org
This is netris, a networked version of t*tris. It allows head to head two player games via a network.
netToe is a Tic Tac Toe-like game for the Unix consoles written in C using UNIX sockets.
Nibbles is a remake of the classic Snake/Nibbles game in ncurses.
NLarn is an enhanced and improved rewrite of the historic roguelike game Larn. It tries to maintain the atmosphere and story of the last version of Larn (12.3) while improving gameplay and the user experience.
nPush is a logic game similar to Sokoban and Boulder Dash.
Classic snake game on the terminal.
A very elaborated sudoku game.
A Sudoku game for the console.
ncurses based sudoku game
omega is a complex rogue-style game of dungeon exploration.
An aggressive 3D Noughts & Crosses player, developed in 1976. The player incorporates the knowledge of the three-in-a-plane forcing patterns and quite spontaneously discovered that plane-forks are deadlier than one would have thought. It can offer suggestions and can be made to play against itself.
okiworld is a host-to-host console-based strategy game.
Oldrunner is a remake of Broderbund’s Loderunner which contains the 150 original game levels. It is written in C and has a text-based interface.
It's a simple and ASCII version, so no fun (and IA is very stupid)...
Play: https://www.google.com/doodles/30th-anniversary-of-pac-man
ASCII Pacman is a simple clone of the Pacman game. It features color and animation using only the curses library.
Pacman for Console.
A simple version of the famous pacman game written in Python.
Play: ssh pacman:pacman@antimirov.net
petris
Another tetris clone.
An interterminal fantasy game. It's a BSD game.
Pillman (aka pacman) game in 512 bytes (boot sector or COM file)
a three-player card game, written by Sarac.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
Old School horizontal scroller 'Shoot Them All' game in bash
plonx
Small ASCII puzzle game.
a multi-player five-card draw, written by Lucifer
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
pong
An old and very poor version of the old pong game.
Portile is a 2D, tile-based take on narbacular drop.
a two-to-four-player board game, written by Unk
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
a four-player card game, written by Lucifer
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
Japanese chess.
SSHTron is a multiplayer lightcycle game that runs through SSH.
Play: ssh sshtron.zachlatta.com
A roguelike written in Python; the display is smooth.
Python curses homage to Threes!
pytris is a two-player networked console Tetris clone written in Python/Pyncurses.
rr
Russian roulette
reversi
A good version of the othello/reversi game written in the Lisp langugage.
Simple ASCII terminal hexagonal map roguelike written in Rust.
Play: ssh rhex:rhex123@rhex.dpc.pw
Exploring The Dungeons of Doom. It's a BSD game.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
Fight off villainous robots. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
GNU Robots is a game/diversion where you construct a program for a little robot, then watch him explore a world. The world is filled with baddies that can hurt you, objects that you can bump into, and food that you can eat. The goal of the game is to collect as many prizes as possible before are killed by a baddie or you run out of energy.
Yet another zen simulation.
Multi-user wooden ships and iron men. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
You're a bookworm that's stuck on a scroll. You have to dodge between words and use spells to make your way down the page as the scroll is read. Go too slow and you'll get wound up in the scroll and crushed.
A version of the classical battleships game.
Another clone of the tetris game.
scrap
Scrap is an easy to play roguelike game.
GNU Shogi is a computer program that plays the game of Shogi, also known as Japanese Chess.
A good roguelike game.
Simultaneous-move chess.
Play: ssh simulchess@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: simulchess
Stardork is a Linux terminal based maze game.
A hotdogging game, evade the deadly Yeti on your jet-powered skis.
slider
A slider game.
Another variant of the roguelike nethack game.
A quick and easy turn-based survival game; you have to move without being caught by a snake. It's a BSD game.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
snake
snake game
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
snake game
ASCII Soccer is a tool for investigating how groups of simple agents interact while playing a soccer-like game.
Super Star Trek — a classic computer game
sokoban
Sokoban is a logical game, where U must solve problems with pushing packets in labirints. The problem is to push packets to saving positions by moving around and pushing only one packet at a time if possible.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
sokoban
A fully playable version of the sokoban game, but a little hacking has to be done.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
SpaceZero is a Real Time Strategy 2D space combat game for two players over a network.
SporkHack is a variant of Nethack.
Starlanes is a game of interstellar commerce for 1 to 4 players.
startrek
Steamband is a roguelike ASCII dungeon exploration simulation game.
This is the good old “Govern Ancient Sumeria”, with a 1983 ecology re-write.
Modern version of Art Canfil's classic, Taipan.
tictac4
A tic-tac-toe variant where you have to align four symbols (instead of three).
A roguelike game written in Lisp.
The game of tetris. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
This is an ncurses version of the game '2048'.
Toledo Atomchess is the world's smallest chess program in x86 assembly code
tower of mediocrity
A tower defense game. Unfortunately, the game is quite easy to win.
An arcade game where you have to shoot on inanimate objects.
torus
A variant of the robots game.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
Tetris for Terminals is another, very old, clone of tetris.
The Rougelike! is a roguelike game.
ASCII Tetris game written in C
A UNIX-hosted, curses-based clone of Tetris.
ncurses-based klondike solitaire game.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
An old but rather elaborated game inspired by the Star Trek series.
Trekkie game. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
a roguelike game with simple commands.
tornado
Tornado is the clone of a C64 game.
Threes!
tint
Tint Is Not Tetris, a ncurses based clone of the original Tetris(tm) game.
tictactoe
Open Source Game Engine
Tic Tac Toe game
The Slimy Lichmummy is a difficult roguelike in a traditional style.
A roguelike game.
The first game in this roundup is UnNetHack, a fork of NetHack, originally based on the hugely popular roguelike game NetHack.
vagabondo
vitetris is a terminal-based Tetris clone by Victor Nilsson. Gameplay is much like the early Tetris games by Nintendo.
Empire is a simulation of a full-scale war between two emperors, the computer and you.
XorCurses is a puzzle game set inside a series of mazes.
Zionist In Space, a text-mode (curses) multiplayer game like Konquest (a turn based strategy; you send ships from planet to planet to conquer them).
One of the best roguelike games for the console.
Zapm is a science fiction roguelike game by Cyrus Dolph.
Z-Day is an easy to play roguelike game. You have to kill zombies in a supermarket.
Just a simple colorful clone of the famous game Snake but with an extraordinary feature. Do you know the Soviet Russia meme by Smirnoff? Try to imagine if you don't eat the food but the food eats you.
Ztrack is a (very) simple curses-based pseudo-3D driving game.
zork I, II, III
An old game by Infocom.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
Zombies is a simple curses-based game in the same style as robots.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
Zombies! is a roguelike written entirely from scratch, in one day, in Common Lisp.
z-code games
See also Wikipedia.
Open Source Video Games
Play: telnet telehack.com (or http://telehack.com/)
ZRacer is a console car racing game. It has a curses based semi-graphical interface, a random track generator, editable settings, and supports hotseat multiplayer. The rules are simple: the higher on the screen, the faster you ride. Don't crash into rocks, curbs, or your opponent, and be the first across the finish line.
Wander was probably the first computer game that is recognisable as what came to be known as a “text adventure”.
Play: https://s3.amazonaws.com/wander1974/wander.html
wargames
Would you like to play a game?
See also Wikipedia.
Wanderer is a game similar to Boulderdash, Repton, XOR and others.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
wallyplus
A game for playing go.
A version of the very old game called Hunt the Wumpus by Eric Raymond. A joke version called “superhack” is included in the archive.
A version of the arcade game worm (sometimes called snake or nibbles). It's a BSD game.
Play: telnet on twenex.org
Hunt the wumpus in an underground cave. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
yahtzee
A very nice yahtzee game where you can play against humans or against the computer (including several different opponents).
yahtzee-color
A very nice yahtzee game where you can play against humans or against the computer (including several different opponents).
is a multiplayer real-time CLI game.
yetris is a customizable Tetris(tm) clone for the console.
Vapors of Insanity is a roguelike game set on a paradise island of Fortarica.
Another space invaders game with simple graphics.
An old and easy to play roguelike game.
ularn
An easy to play roguelike game.
ultrarogue
Another variant of Rogue.
A roguelike game written in Lisp.
A cli version of the game 2048 for your Linux terminal.
Port of the old Amiga Conquest text-based game
Blender is a completely free, open-source 3D creation suite. The official website says Blender is perfect for individuals and small teams alike. Part of the reason is that Blender supports the 3D pipeline throughout the entire creation process.
What does that mean? It means it supports all of this:
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The fact that you can do all of this using Blender makes it a valuable creation software. And since it’s free and open-source… the pot really can’t get any sweeter.
In case you’re unfamiliar with open-source, we’ll break it down for you. Open-source means you are completely free to change the code. When you download the Blender creation kit, you’ll get access to 100% of the code that is making Blender run. And Blender encourages you to manipulate it however you’d like!
If you’re a beginner, open-source code manipulation might not be on your radar yet, and that’s OK. Hundreds of other people around the world are constantly tweaking and developing Blender. Since there’s such a large community involvement, the changes being made constantly lead to new features released to the masses.
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Blender is a cross-platform 3D development tool, so you’ll be good to go regardless of whether you use Linux, Windows, or Mac. If for some reason you have more specific computing concerns, check the supported platform database for a complete list of developer-tested computers.
1. BornCG
YouTube fans, unite! Here’s a tutorial series put together by YouTuber BornCg. It covers the basics for the Blender game engine. The series starts with the bare bone basics of using Blender, so you don’t need to have any experience with Blender prior to diving in.
Youalso don’t need any programming experience, as BornCG doesn’t use Python programming to teach you in his tutorials. This series has 22 videos in it, some are short, like under 20 minutes, others break the 50 minute mark. IT bounces around depending on the complexity of the topic he’s covering.
He also has a Blender 2.7 Tutorial playlist. This playlist contains 79 videos covering all kinds of Blender elements, not just game creation. So if you want to do more than just create a game, if you want to really learn the ins and outs of Blender and what the 3D creation engine can really do, give this tutorial playlist a watch.
This YouTuber has spent the last eight years teaching all kinds of people how to use creative technology. Sometimes he talks really fast through a string of 2 to 5 words and it’s hard to catch what he said. But his video is very clear so your brain will retroactively fill in what he says based on what he’s gesturing to in his video.
The majority of the time he speaks clearly, so don’t get turned off in the first episode. If you adapt your hearing for his speaking style and stick with the tutorials, you’ll be using Blender on your own in no time.
2. Blender Tutorials
What kind of free-to-use, open-source 3D creation engine wouldn’t offer a compilation of tutorials? Not the Blender kind!
In the support section of the Blender website you can find an FAQ tab, a User Communities tab, and a Tutorials tab. These three resources alone will provide you ample guided material and assistance to get started using the creation software.
The page has an Introduction for Beginners tutorial which links to a tutorial perfect for you if you want help even starting at the downloading stage.
Then there’s the link to Beginner Tutorials which has a hearty amount of tutorial lessons to get you up to speed, and doesn’t coddle you quite as much as the “introduction for Beginners” tutorial. Also, all of the lessons from this tutorial are available for iPhone and iPad download.
It’s provided via Tufts University in the iTunesU store. Could be helpful if you want to learn on the go, or for the dual-screen interface opportunities.
There are many, many more tutorials in the collection the Blender community put together, so if you’re struggling with something specific be sure to check here. Modeling, shading and textures, rigging, compositing, lighting and rendering, dynamics and simulation, and more — it’s all covered pretty extensively.
3. Game From Scratch
Sometimes developers will use Blender to create a 2D or 3D asset for use in a separate game engine, like Unity.
If you have no experience with Blender and want to build a “low polygon full textured game model” then this is the tutorial for you. If you just want to use Blender to make game art for right now, then you can start with this tutorial.
The only knowledge it assumes you have is knowledge from the prior section of the tutorial. You can confidently start with zero knowledge on this game art tutorial.
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In addition to a fun name, KatsBits offers game design and content creation tutorials for Blender (and more!). There are tutorials that cover making a simple sword, creating double-sided meshes, simple map creation, and much, much more.
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The explanations are in-depth, and cover unique, specific topics (Like “Make a Medieval Chair in 7 Steps). It’s worth checking out KatsBits as you gain more experience with Blender.
5. BlenderNation
This site is updated with fresh Blender news every day, and the site was founded over ten years ago. It’s no wonder, then, that the tutorials section has hundreds of pages worth of content for you to check out.
New tutorials are added almost daily.
It might seem like a lot to keep up with, but luckily for all of us, there’s a search function attached to the site. If you find a tutorial you like (there’s a cool speed-rendering of the WoW sword Frostmourne), you can search a keyword and have it pop up without navigating pages and pages to get there.
Or, if you’re looking for help on a specific topic, plug it in and see if any results are returned for you. Based on the scope of this database, it’s pretty likely that you’ll have some results returned.
The site is founded by the guy who ran the crowdfunding campaignto open source Blender, so you know he’s coming from a passionate, dedicated place.