21 educational resources for game developers
Game Analytics, an analytical platform and game publisher, has published a list of 21 training resources for game developers on its blog. Now this list can be found on our pages.
Game design
We are sure that you are aware of the existence of this archive. Here you can find a lot of performances literally from the very first GDC. There are even reports from 1996!
A website that contains links to all the tools that may be needed in the development of the game. Plus, there is a luxury marketing guide available. And here is a full list of the largest gaming sites from the author of Pixel Prospector.
This is a YouTube channel that regularly publishes short videos (literally 10 minutes or less) dedicated to game design. To date, 11 seasons have already been released (each with 25 episodes).
A funny website whose author once decided to come up with 300 game concepts in 300 days. After 50 concepts, he decided that it was somewhat difficult to come up with something every day. So now he updates the site from time to time (now you can find 210 ideas here). Each concept is provided with a detailed description of the mechanics and even art.
5. Donjon
Those who like to invent worlds or role-playing games will find it useful. With Donjon, you can generate names, quests, and even calendars of imaginary worlds.
6. Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers
Not a resource, but a giant material on Gamasutra dedicated to the design of platformers.
Development
In fact, this is a great free tutorial that talks about programming patterns. Each chapter begins with a specific example explaining why you need to know about this or that technique.
Most likely, you know perfectly well that this is not a learning resource at all, but a place where popular game jams are held several times a year. But there is a nuance. The sources and assets of almost every project that participated in the main events are available for free review.
A list of free development services available for free to students.
Digital art
10. Ctrlpaint.com
A library of more than 200 free five-minute videos dedicated to digital drawing. There are also paid courses, but you can do without them.
11. Proko
A YouTube channel dedicated to drawing the human body.
12. 2d Game Art Guru
A blog on drawing art sources for those who are not a good artist and do not mind using Inkscape.
13. GDquest
YouTube channel with tutorials on 2d drawing. A new video appears every Thursday. The latter, for example, is devoted to index-drawing in wide resolution.
14. Technical Art: Game art Tricks
A website dedicated to all sorts of graphic tricks that have been implemented in various popular games. For example, smoke in Company of Heroes and parallax in Diablo 2.
15. Android Arts
An archive of curious articles by Swedish artist Niklas Jansson, in which he shares how he would change certain existing projects (for example, here his vision of the remake of Master of Orion I), and at the same time deconstructs them.
Narative design
16. Seven Camels
The blog of Mark Kennedy, one of Frozen’s storyboards, is about visual storytelling. Mark has been running it since 2006. As a rule, compositional moments and scenes from popular tapes are understood in the blog.
A classic work by Christopher Vogler, the central theme of which is the analysis of the work The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. The essence of the work is that most stories have a similar structure.
Links
An organized bunch of Reddit subs, within which beautiful photos are published. The name is strange, of course, but there is nothing like that on the link.
19. Creative Uncut
Another archive of illustrations in high resolution. This time related to video games.
Basic knowledge
20. No Excuse List
A set of links to a very wide range of tutorials that are not directly related to games.
Another knowledge base on the broadest topics. All posts are categorized. Those who have received the largest number of “likes” are at the very top.
Source: http://blog .gameanalytics.com
