Game Programming Resources

Rodrigo Monteiro, who has been making games for twenty years now, started a thread on Twitter for sharing his favorite game programming resources. I then collected those and a few responses and indexed them into a Twitter moment here:

? ⌨ Game Programming Resources Thread: https://t.co/I8FoPWrGKu

Tips from @amzeratul, @AlanZucconi, @_zencoder, @TheJekadu, @colejcecil, @sirbartosz , & @KnightsOfUnity #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #indiegames #Programming

— Nolan Clemmons (@clemmons_io) December 30, 2017

You can find the game development resources below; I’ve since categorized them into game tutorial YouTube Channels, programming blogs, and books.

Game Development Blogs & Articles:

Game Networking: https://gafferongames.com/categories/game-networking/

Geometry – Separating Axis Theorem (for collision detection): http://www.metanetsoftware.com/technique/tutorialA.html

How to implement 2D platformer games: http://higherorderfun.com/blog/2012/05/20/the-guide-to-implementing-2d-platformers/

Pathfinding: https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction.html

OpenGL Tutorial: https://learnopengl.com/

Audio Programming: https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/index.html

OpenAL Effects Extension Guide (for game audio): http://kcat.strangesoft.net/misc-downloads/Effects%20Extension%20Guide.pdf

Entity Component Systems game development programming scripting chart — Entity Component Systems provide an alternative to object-oriented programming.

Entity Systems are the future of MMOG development: http://t-machine.org/index.php/2007/09/03/entity-systems-are-the-future-of-mmog-development-part-1/

What is an entity system framework for game development? http://www.richardlord.net/blog/ecs/what-is-an-entity-framework.html

Understanding Component-Entity-Systems: https://www.gamedev.net/articles/programming/general-and-gameplay-programming/understanding-component-entity-systems-r3013/

Alan Zucconi blogs about shaders and game math for developers on his site: https://www.alanzucconi.com/tutorials/

AI Steering Behaviours: http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/

Bartosz Olszewski blogs about game programming here: gamesarchitecture.com

How to write a shader to scale pixel art: https://colececil.io/blog/2017/scaling-pixel-art-without-destroying-it/

Here’s a podcast on C++ programming

Data Oriented Design Resources: https://github.com/dbartolini/data-oriented-design

Handmade Hero: https://handmadehero.org/ & Handmade Network: https://handmade.network/

Game Development YouTube Channels

There are quite a few YouTube channels that cover game programming tutorials and other game development topics.

Infallible Code by Charles Amat

This YouTube channel contains useful programming tutorials for Unity. Charles also has a podcast here: http://indieretrospect.com/

Here’s a series on Test-Driven Development in Unity:

GameDevJon (a.k.a IndieSharp) by Jon Weinberger

IndieSharp offers interactive game development tutorials. Here’s a series on Unity C# programming fundamentals:

Linear Algebra:

Unite Austin 2017 – Writing High Performance C# Scripts:

Data-Oriented Design and C++

Quill18Creates by Martin Glaude

Quill18 creates a lot of Let’s Play Twitch streams and videos for strategy and role-playing games like Civilization VI, and on this channel he produces Unity programming tutorials. Check this guide on how to create an online multiplayer first-person shooter game in Unity3D: