Game Development

Articles

• 20 Tips On Making Games - Jordan Mechner

• Free Online Resources to Learn Game Development - Gautam Tambay

• Free ebooks about game development

• Game Programming Primer

• GB ASM Tutorial (GitHub)

• Graphic Courses

• I want to be a game developer… now what?

• Isometric Projection in Game Development - Gustavo Pezzi, Pikuma

• List of commercial video games with available source code

• Making Games in Go for Absolute Beginners - Miłosz Smółka

• Write a First Person Game in 2KB With Rust - Grant Handy

Assets

• Kenney

Books

• 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development - Fletcher Dunn, Ian Parbery

• Books for Game Developers

• Famicom Party - Making NES Games in Assembly

• Game AI Pro

• Game Boy: Complete Technical Reference - gekkio

• Game Programming Patterns - Robert Nystrom

• Graphics Programming Black Book - Michael Abrash

• Make JavaScript Games

• Procedural Content Generation in Games

• The Book of Shaders - Patricio Gonzalez Vivo, Jen Lowe

• The Level Design Book

Courses

• Computer Game Engineering - Newcastle University

• Intro to Game Programming - Dave Churchill, Memorial University

  • Fall 2022

  • Fall 2023

• Introduction to Game Development - David J. Malan, Colton Odgen

Game Engines

• Adventure Game Studio

• Construct

• Enu

• GameMaker

• GDevelop

• microStudio

• Pulp

• QuickGame

• Roblox

• RPG in a Box

• RPG Maker

  • RPG Maker 2003

  • RPG Maker MZ

• Twine - Open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories

• Wicked Engine

GitHub Repositories

• awesome-gamedev

• awesome-gbadev

• awesome-n64-development

• Butano - Modern C++ high level engine for the Game Boy Advance

• Celeste Classic 2 for PICO-8!

• Celeste64 - A game made by the Celeste developers in a week

• DotnetSnes - Allows using .net languages to create real working SNES roms!

• Electronic Arts

  • Command and Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour

  • Command and Conquer: Red Alert

  • Command and Conquer: Renegade

  • Command and Conquer: Tiberian Dawn

• Games on GitHub

• gba - A crate that helps you make GBA games

• GBDK-2020 - C compiler, assembler, linker and set of libraries for the Nintendo Gameboy, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear

• Nortis - a Tetris clone for the PlayStation 1

• Open Source Games

• OpenBOR - the ultimate 2D side scrolling engine for beat em' ups, shooters, and more!

• Magic Tools

• Pyxel - retro game engine for Python

• Serious Engine - An open source version of a game engine developed by Croteam for the classic Serious Sam games

• SGDK - A free and open development kit for the Sega Mega Drive

• Tuxemon - Open source monster-fighting RPG

• VVVVVV

• Wituz

Hacker News Threads

• 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?

Images

Reddit Threads

• Tips and Lessons learned from 7500+ hours of solo game development. PART 1: Prototyping

• Tips and Lessons learned from 7500+ hours of solo game development. PART 2: Planning and Execution

• Tips and Lessons learned from 7500+ hours of solo game development. PART 3: Staying Motivated

• Tips and Lessons learned from 7500+ hours of solo game development. PART 4: Productivity

Subreddits

• r/gamedev

• r/playmygame

Tools

• Tiled - Flexible level editor

Tutorials

• A Closer Look at SFML

• Game From Scratch C++ and SFML Edition!

• Let's Code an Indie Game

Websites

• Awesome N64 Development

• create-nes-games

• Gabriel Gambetta

• GameDev.net

• Game Development - Tony Looman

• GB Studio

• gbdev.io - Game Boy Development Community

  • Pan Docs

• GBDK Showcase

• Hacker News Games - A curated catalog of 413 games created by the Hacker News community

• Homebrew Hub

• Italian Video Games Database

• Jason Thor Hall

• Keep Out! - Little Workshop

• Lazy Foo's Productions

• Lexaloffle Games

  • PICO-8

  • Voxatron

• libdragon - Open source library for N64 development

• MakeCode Arcade - Microsoft

• Making Games with Ben

• Nerdy Teachers

  • PICO-8 Bitesize Games

• NESFab

• Pikuma - Gustavo Pezzi

• RasterTek

• Red Blob Games

• RenderDoc - Stand-alone graphics debugger

• RetroC64 - Programming the Commodore 64 with .NET

• Simple DirectMedia Layer

• The 20 Games Challenge

• TIC-80 tiny computer

• ZQuest Classic

YouTube Channels

• Freya Holmér

• Game Maker's Toolkit

• Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games

• Molly Rocket

• Pirate Software (Jason Thor Hall, Twitch)

• Randall Thomas - The Sequel

• SimonDev

  • Three.js Tutorials for Beginners

YouTube Playlists

• Let's Make: Dangerous Dave - MaiZure's Stuff

YouTube Videos

• Building Games for Old Retro 1985 Hardware is fun! - Modern Vintage Gamer

• I built my own 3D Game Engine with Open-Source Tools - Modern Vintage Gamer

• JavaScript GameDev – Code a Sonic Runner Using Kaplay Library - freeCodeCamp.org