Recommendations

Books#

Game design#

• The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses -> Different approaches to game design.

Game programming#

• Game Programming Patterns -> Design Patterns but in a gaming context.

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Websites#

• The spriters resource -> Great place to find sprites from your favourite games.
• Game UI database Examples of UIs from 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.

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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.
• Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games -> University worth of game development knowledge 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 tutoriasl.

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).