3D Animation & Game Design: OER Resources

The eCampusOntario Open Library provides educators and learners with access to more than 250 free and openly-licensed educational resources.

The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) allows the user to search a database of over 68,000 peer-reviewed, academic books.

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) was started back in 1997 at Sonoma State University. It is a community of staff, volunteers, and members who work together in various ways to provide users of OER (Open Educational Resource) teaching and learning materials with a wealth of services and functions that can enhance their instructional experience.

The Pressbooks Directory is a free, searchable catalog that includes 8,420 open access books published across 206 unique networks using Pressbooks. It's easy to copy, revise, remix, and redistribute any openly licensed content found here using Pressbooks' publishing platform. Nearly all books are highly accessible, and many include interactive H5P learning activities to engage learners.

"Alice is an innovative block-based programming environment that makes it easy to create animations, build interactive narratives, or program simple games in 3D. Unlike many of the puzzle-based coding applications Alice motivates learning through creative exploration. Alice is designed to teach logical and computational thinking skills, fundamental principles of programming and to be a first exposure to object-oriented programming. The Alice Project provides supplemental tools and materials for teaching using Alice across a spectrum of ages and subject matter with proven benefits in engaging and retaining diverse and underserved groups in computer science education."

"Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation."

An open-source computer graphics library

"Torque2D is a powerful, C++ engine, built on proven torque technology. This legendary engine has been used in hundreds of games by professionals and hobbyist's alike. Open-source and completely free, Torque2D is the most cost-effective, 2D engine available today with more raw power then most engines offer at hefty prices. Supported by a resilient community, Torque2D has what you need for your next hit game!"

"Torque is a fully-featured professional 3D game engine that lets you create immersive environments, simulations, games, visualizations, or whatever else you can imagine. It comes with powerful built-in tools for level and gameplay design, and is built on proven networking code that makes supporting large multiplayer environments a breeze."