Link to this headingGame Development

Link to this headingGame Design

• Talks / Essays
  • Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games
  • John Carmack on Lighting
• Mechanics & Systems
  • Game Mechanic Explorer
  • Easing functions
• Articles & Magazines
  • Game Developer Magazine Archive (GDC Vault)
• Genre-specific
  • Creating JRPG

Link to this headingGame Programming/Architecture

• Books & References
  • Game Programming Patterns
  • Learning Modern C++ (HN thread)
  • Game Engine Architecture Lectures
• Tutorials & Guides
  • How to write a game engine in pure C (State Manager)
  • Creating a Wolfenstein 3D Clone
  • 3D Game Engine Development
  • Game From Scratch (C++ Edition)
• Frameworks & Libraries
  • SDL-GPU (2D graphics in C)
  • SDL in Go
  • Phaser.js Tutorial
  • JS Game Info Wiki
  • 2D Game with Canvas
  • Unreal Engine 4 C++ Tutorials
  • UDK Resources

Link to this headingAI & Gameplay Systems

• The Total Beginner’s Guide to Game AI
• Pathfinding Demystified: Generic Search Algorithm

Link to this headingNetworking

• Gaffer on Games (Networking)
• Ithare Networking Programming Series
• Fast-Paced Multiplayer: Client-Server Architecture
• How to make a Game Network
• Networking of a turn-based game

Link to this headingComputer Graphics & Rendering

Art:

• https://opengameart.org/latest

• OpenGL & Graphics APIs

  • Learn OpenGL
  • OpenGL Rendering
  • Modern OpenGL Tutorials
  • GLSL Core Tutorial
  • OpenGL Game Rendering (Sonarlearning)
  • Modern OpenGL Game Development (Sonarlearning)

• Rendering From Scratch

  • Tiny Renderer
  • TinyKaboom (180 lines of C++)

• Advanced Techniques

  • id Tech 5 Challenges (SIGGRAPH talk)
  • Virtual Textures (Software paper)
  • Motion Blur Notes
  • Bilinear Sampling & Pixel Grid Alignment
  • DOOM Fire Effect
  • WebGL + Rust Water Tutorial

Link to this headingRay Tracing

• Books
  • Ray Tracing in One Weekend
  • Ray Tracing: The Next Week
  • Ray Tracing: The Rest of Your Life
• Tutorials & Projects
  • Ray tracer in Rust & Zig
  • POV-Ray: 25 Scenes in 25 Days
  • Rust Ray Tracer Implementation

Link to this headingShaders

• 3D Shaders for Beginners
• Shadertoy Examples
• Inigo Quilez Shader Articles

Link to this headingText Rendering

Text Rendering Hates You

Link to this headingVideo and Multimedia

How Video compression works
ffmpeg libav tutorial
Using FFmpeg and SDL to Build a Video Player
A hands-on introduction to video technology: image, video, codec (av1, vp9, h265) and more (ffmpeg encoding).
How Video Delivery Works

Link to this headingModeling & Art Tools

Remap Photoshop to Gimp Shortcuts
Zbrush Tutorials

See Blender Tutorials

Link to this headingDemoscene

• Ray Tracing in 4096 bytes (PDF)
• Ferris Makes Demos (YouTube)
• 64k Intro Article