Links

On this page you can find usefull stuff I found during my research. This can be basically anything I consider useful for my work.

Game Design (Workshops?)

• Game Makers Toolkit: Great collection of videos.
• Extra Credits: Another channel providing great infos.

Assets

• Kenney Assets: Free assests specifically made for game design.
• OpenGameArt: A community producing awesome (and mostly free-to-use) game assets. Check the license of each asset you want to use!
• FreeSound: Similar to opengameart, but specifically for sound. Find your soundeffects here!

Tools

• Game Engine
  • Unity3D: Free game engine.
    • Best Free Assets for Unity: A curated list with useful unity assets.
    • Unity Editor Theme Support: Allows you to customize the look of the unity editor.
• Image Editors
  • Paint.net: Free windows image editor.
  • Inkscape: Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It’s free and open source. If you can’t afford Illustrator, this is your next stop.
• Audio Editors
  • Audacity: Open source audio editor.
  • Beepbox: Create chiptunes in your browser.
• Screen Recorder
  • Snagit: One of the tools I actually bought. Creates screenshots and records videos of your screen. Can export to video or gif! Fantastic piece of software that is.
  • ScreenToGif: Open source GIF recorder.
• Task Management
  • Trello: Task management website.
  • Pomello: Pomodoro timer linked to your trello account.

Frameworks

• Game Frameworks
  • Libgds: Open source Java framework to create game engines (and by extension, games).
• Audio
  • Steam Audio: New audio framework by Valve, renders (?) 3D sound.
• Graphics
  • Ogre3D: Performant open-source C++ graphics engine

Tutorials

• Alan Zucconi: Has a lot of interesting Unity tutorials.
• Ray Wenderlich: Another good lists of tutorials.
• Unity Youtube Channel: They have so many tutorials, guides and walkthroughts, it’s incredible.
• Irfan Prasiyanto (Desainew): A lot of very useful how-tos for Inkscape. Also a good source for inspiration
• Makin’ Stuff Look Good: This teaches or shows off techniques for getting the most out of Unity games, such as shaders, image effects and other neat tricks.
• Brackeys: Many tutorials. Such content. Wow.
• GOAP: Goal Oriented Action Planing.

Books

• Design
  • The art of game design: A book of lenses: THE book about game design.
  • Level UP!: The OTHER book about game design.
  • Swipe this!: THE book about touchscreen game design.
  • Game Engine Architecture: Specific book about game engine implementation.
  • Game Programming Patterns: Website/Book about specific programming patterns useful for developing games.
• Development
  • Game AI Pro: Book about programming Game AI, free articles on their website.
  • 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development: Anything you need to know (or at least heard off) about maths for game development.
  • Graphics Programming Black Book: Book about graphics and assembler programming by the legendary Michael Abrash.
  • Game Engine Black Book: Book(s) about the Wolfestein 3D engine.
• Inspiration
  • Wonderbook: A book about creating books (and worlds, and characters, and stories and….)
  • Masters of Doom: The story behind the original doom.
  • The Ultimate History of Video Games: Where did our games come from?
  • DND 5E: Dungeon Master Guide: Info book for dungeon masters (and game devs).
  • The Simpsons Handbook: Showing off how the simpsons creators draw the characters of the show.