CA3 Game Dev Tutorials Collection

Various tutorials from CS, to music, to art, to writing, and more.

Game dev Gaiden

A lot of resources to game developers.

Game UI Database

A library of UI screenshots to analyse and compare from popular games. Good resource to inspire your own UI.

Pomao's dev tutorials

Some tutorials on low level game development, using Javascript.

Teach Yourself CS

Don't be that guy that "learns as he goes" or "hates coding".

3Blue1Brown Linear Algebra Breakdown

Useful library of videos to understand the mathematics of vectors and matrices. Site includes other mathematic topics.

3Blue1Brown Quaternion Visualization

Useful for a visual understanding of quaternions and 3D rotations.

Catlike Coding

Tutorials for procedural meshes and shaders, using Unity.

Learn OpenGL

Resource to using the OpenGL API as well as the GLSL shader language.

Learn Vulkan

Tutorial for the Vulkan API (think OpenGL on steroids).

ShaderToy

Browse or create web shaders. Contains further resources. May or may not be helpful to gamedev.

The Book of Shaders

Not a literal book, a great start for learning shaders.

C Build Guide

Guide made for /agdg/, /chad/, and /gedg/. Goes through using gcc and CMake with examples.

cplusplus.com

General information about the C++ programming language, including non-technical documents and descriptions.

C Programming Language, 2nd Ed

Also called the "C bible". Easy to find free online.

Learn C++ (beginner-friendly tutorial)

A free website devoted to teaching you how to program in C++. Whether you’ve had any prior programming experience or not, the tutorials on this site will walk you through all the steps to write, compile, and debug your C++ programs, all with plenty of examples.

Becoming an expert won’t happen overnight, but with a little patience, you’ll get there. And LearnCpp.com will show you the way.

Godot from Zero to Proficiency

If you want to switch from Unity, you may want to start with this. Anon shared this book series, says it's great even if you are already initiated with Godot. Either buy from amazon or use the methods bellow:

Godot Docs

Read and find out.

Godot Engine Q&A

Search to maybe find an answer from fellow Godot users.

Godot Shaders

Free shaders made specifically for Godot.

How To Shader

A brief but dense video to get a good idea of how to write your own shaders in Godot. Click here for their followup video.

KidsCanCode Godot Recipies

Tutorials with pictures for many common use cases of various nodes and GDScript, as well as explanations for some hard to understand concepts like dot and cross product of two vectors.

Step by Step Guides to Making your First Game

HeartBeast's Action RPG(Zelda Like)
Outdated, but is still usefull if you can extrapolate it to newer Godot.

HeartBeast's Pixel Platformer
Up to date tutorial for a basic platformer.

Catlike Coding Prototypes

Prototype tutorials.

Unity Learn

Official tutorials.

Learn C#

C# tutorials on the Microsoft website.

The Unity Tutorial for Complete Beginners

Tutorial to get your feet wet with Unity.

Breaking Down the Components of Gameplay

In this course, you'll learn how to reuse components to make fun, dynamic gaming experiences.

Build A Third Person Character From Scratch

Using the "Stack-O-Bot" project to build a third-person character that includes movement, cameras, animations, and a jetpack.

Introducing Unreal Engine UI

Mathew Wadstein will walk you through the fundamentals of the Unreal Engine user interface and its components. After introducing you to the interface and functionality, Matt will cover important settings to adapt the UE Editor to your workflow.

Learn everything there is to about Unreal Engine with tutorials on all kinds of systems and features

This channels covers almost everything you need to use Unreal Engine 4 and 5 for absolute beginners.

Table of Contents C++

Unreal Editor Fundamentals - Actors and Level Blueprints

Luis Cataldi will teach you the key workflows used to select and modify Actors. You’ll also learn how a Level Blueprint can drive properties and values of Actors to craft experiences within Unreal Engine.

Unreal Engine Learning Library

A Library of Courses, Learning Paths, Tutorials, Livestreams, Talks and Demos made by Epic Games and by the UE community.

Unreal Engine Online Learning

Epic-created tutorials.

Your First Game In UE5

Practical in-editor demo making a game from scratch highlighting UE5 features. Show how fast you can create a game leveraging new and established features of the engine.

Your First Hour In UE5

This course will introduce you to Unreal Engine 5 and the editor used to work within it. We’ll look at the Launcher, Editor, creating a basic level including lighting and level layout, and Blueprints.

Balancing Blueprint and C++

In this course, you’ll learn how to make the most out of Unreal Engine by utilizing Blueprints and C++ in ways that complement their individual strengths. By the end, you’ll be able to assess which option best fits your needs in your own projects.

Blueprints - Essential Concepts

Wes Bunn introduces us to the essentials of the Blueprint Visual Scripting system. We'll dive into what Blueprints are and what you can expect when working with them, creating and working within Blueprints, and explore some of the different types of Blueprints available.

Blueprints and Gameplay for Game Designers

This course is for aspiring gameplay designers new to Unreal Engine who want to prototype their own ideas in a way that allows for rapid iterations.

Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine

Build professional 3D games with Unreal Engine 4's Visual Scripting system.

C++ For Blueprinters

You'll learn the basics of exposing C++ to Blueprints, migrating Blueprints, and more.

Complete Introduction to Blueprints from ZERO to HERO

Learn Blueprints in Unreal Engine 5 with this in depth tutorial!

By the end of this tutorial you will become confident to code mechanics for your games using Blueprints in Unreal Engine 5. This will be a real from zero to hero journey!

You will learn the best practices to use Blueprints. A real step by step guide that will help you to go to the right path. No longer you will be confused when learning to code.

This complete Blueprint course will help you to quick start your journey into Game Development by giving you the tools and knowledge you need to create your games.

Learn Blueprints in Unreal Engine 5 - Beginner Tutorial

This is an introduction to Blueprints with Unreal Engine 5 for absolute beginners.

Table of Contents Blueprints

The third volume of the Blueprints Compendium presents more 25 blueprints nodes with contextual examples of its use.

Godot

The most popular free & open source game engine with the largest set of tools. Was used to create games like Brotato, Dome Keeper, and Cassette Beasts. Mainly uses GDScript, it's own programming language for code, but C# and C++ can also be used alongside it by installing the .NET version of Godot and/or GDExtension.

LÖVE

A framework for 2D games that utilizes Lua. A fantastic choice for beginners learning how to make games and supported by a large community.

microStudio

Web-based engine, but can also be installed and used offline. Supports Lua, Javascript, Python and their own custom microscript language.

MonoGame

C# Framework. Used to make a lot of famous 2D indie games like Bastion, Celeste and Owlboy. Development appears to have stalled in the last couple of years.

FNA

FNA is a reimplementation of the Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh libraries.

pgs4a

An evolution of the deprecated Pygame Subset for Android. It's an easy way to port your Pygame to your mobile devices. Make Pygame games run on android.

Pygame

Similar to LÖVE, except it uses Python instead of Lua.

Pyglet

Pyglet is a cross-platform library for Python intended for developing games. Supports windowing, UI event handling, OpenGL, images, videos and more. Pyglet works on Windows/OSX/Linux. Benchmark insights on my R5 5600x: Static sprites: 150,000 no issues. Moving sprites: 7,000 no issues, began to buckle around 11,000. Per the Pyglet Dicsord, my benchmark could even be improved with the use of a proper camera class.

Rabbyt

Sprite library for Python2.7 in Pyrex. Can be used with Pyglet or Pygame, meaning Pyglet would still handle the window events, clock cycles, etc. Rabbyt provides animation and collision detection features. Rabbyt runs on Windows/OSX/Linux. There is a Cython port for Python3 on Github. Documentation is lacking but can be found on various Archive.org links. Pyglet-2 under Python3.x is faster, but Rabbyt is faster for Python2. Benchmark insights on Python2.7 my R5 5600x: Moving sprites: 7,000 no issues, began to buckle around 8,000.

raylib

A C library for 2D/3D games to handle graphics, input and sound. There are multiple language bindings. Think about this as a tiny SDL. raylib has multiple examples and small games to practice with.

Solar2D

An open source Lua based game engine with focus on ease of iterations and usage, forked from the Corona SDK game engine which is now not commercially supported.

GameMaker

A game engine that specializes in 2D games. Used to make many popular indie games like Pizza Tower, Hotline Miami and Hyper Light Drifter. Uses its own programming language (GML). Completely free for non-commercial use and non-console projects.

Godot

Also does three dee. 5.0 will fix everything I promise.

Stride

A free & open source 3D game engine with native support for C# and part of the .NET foundation. A great choice for hipsters.

Unity

Accessible engine. Backed by a huge community and a huge amount of tutorials. It has a reputation for being a good choice for 2D games, but it really isn't unless you plan to utilize 3D visual effects. Notorious for charging money to remove the splash screen and to unlock the infamous >dark theme.

Unreal Engine

A very heavy, but very powerful engine, and a great choice to make a 3D game in. One of the reasons it's a great choice is because of the huge amount of assets Epic gives for free, which includes new stuff every month. Unreal Engine is both renown and infamous for its >blueprints visual coding. This can simplify the programming experience for non-programmers, but also results in worse runtime performance and as your game grows more complex, blueprints can become extremely messy and difficult to maintain. It's a good idea to learn some Unreal-style C++ and balance it with blueprints; for more information, read the documentation.

Aseprite

A highly rated sprite and pixel art application. You can compile the source code of it to get the full version for free, or pay a one time fee for them to do so for you. There is also a fork of an older version called LibreSprite which is susposedly getting a rewrite at some point.

Blender

The ultimate jack of all trades 3D modeling software, and even useful for creating 2D assets. It's lightweight, highly customizable, highly extensible with python scripting and best of all, it's free and open source software.

Inkscape

A free & open source vector graphics program, useful for designing UI icons and more.

Krita

The best free and open source drawing application. Use this for your concept art.

Photopea

Free, browser-based Photoshop clone.

Piskel

Sprite creation and animation tool, both for web and download.

Pixelorama

A nice free and open source sprite editor that was created in Godot. Can be both downloaded or used within your browser.

Visual Studio Code

For all your script editing needs. Lightweight, extensible and free. Remember to turn off Microsoft's telemetry in the settings.

Version control allows you to keep a record and revert changes in your project. You can also push your repo to a server as a backup or to share your project with others. Git is not the same as GitHub. GitHub is a frontend for Git, while Git is free software.

Git for Dummies

Intro to Git.

Short History of Git

Know your history.

Git LFS

Should be used if you have large files like video and audio.

Git on the server

Learn to self-host your own repo. You can also check out different Git web interfaces if you want something pretty.

bfxr

Download only, the go to SFX generator. Can layer and combine previously made SFX into one as well.

ChipTone

Web and download versions, prettied up generator based on bfxr, which is based on sfxr. Still a WIP (0.5 and missing features as of writing).

jsfxr

Web javascript port of sfxr.

sfxr

Download only, the original.

yEd

Visual graph tool to brainstorm or organize your thoughts, if you're really creative you can even use it for level design.

https://obsproject.com
https://github.com/argorar/WebMConverter
https://github.com/michaelmob/WebMCam

Game-icons.net

Free icons.

itch.io free assets

A lot of pay-what-you-want assets for all your prototyping needs.

Kenney

Simplistic textures, models, sounds, and some tools for prototyping.

OpenGameArt

Browse or upload to a collection of free, if usualy rough assets.

Pomao Models

Be sure to put him in your game.

Dova Syndrome

Great free Jap Music and some SFX.

FreeSound

Browse or upload SFX and music.

Genie Soul

More free Jap Music and some SFX.

ZapSplat

Free SFX and Music.

SFX from GDC

They give a bunch away for free yearly, spanning six years. More can be bought from the main page.

Sound Effects Lab

Free Jap SFX.

Sound effects on itch

Free Music Archive

Free Music.

Kevin MacLeod's Website

Music may be too recognizeable, but it's the Man himself.

Music Atelier Amacha

Free Jap Music.

Font Space

More fonts I guess.

Font Squirrel

Hundreds of fonts with previews. Dedicated to free-for-commercial-use fonts. Has a tag system for searching.

Fontesk

Thousands of fonts with previews, with a simple to use free-for-commercial-use filter.