Game dev resources
Books
Game design:
- The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses: A book that shows you different approaches to game design.
Game programming:
- Game Programming Patterns: This book takes the ideas from Design Patterns and translates it to a gaming context.
Websites
- The spriters resource: great place to find sprites from your favourite games for study purposes.
- Game UI database Examples of UIs of most popular games.
- GameFromScratch: Game development news and a good place to find new tools.
- CS50: Not really a website, but a really good starting point to learn programming.
- GDC Vault: GDC talks.
Youtube Channels
Design and stuff:
- GMTK: Talks about game design techniques.
- GDC: Developers talk about game development.
- Juniper Dev: Game design exploration and random deep dives into very specific aspects of a game.
- Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games: Teaches every aspect of game development for free.
Programming and technology:
- 2kliksphilip: Surrealist tech talks.
- 3blue1brown: Not necessarily programming, but I consider his linear algebra playlist a must see.
- Acerola: Graphics programming.
- RachelfTech: Shares her game dev and tech projects.
- Sebastian Lague: Coding adventures.
Music:
- 8bitMusicTheory: Musical analysis of video game soundtracks.
Graphics:
- Acerola: Graphics programming. A channel so great I’ll recommend again.
- Brandon James Greer: Makes pictures out of tiny squares.
- Pixel Overload: Pixel art tutorials.
Other:
- GameFromScratch: Game development news and a good place to find new tools.
- Josh Strife Hayes: Reviews mostly bad MMOs. Good way to learn what not to do.
- Josh Strife Plays: Reviews old games. Good way to learn from those that came before us.
- Vsauce: Healthy amount of existential dread.
- Vsauce2: Game theory videos (The mathematical kind).
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