Games
Games: video games, game design, game development, and board games.
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Ensemble Studio's Age of Empires II: Age of Kings gamedeveloper.com
Age of Empires II: Age of Kings was developed by Ensemble Studios with the aim of improving upon the original game in every aspect, from graphics to user interface. Modern game developers can learn from Ensemble's dedication to innovation within the genre and their use of tools…
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Blizzard's Diablo II gamedeveloper.com
Diablo II, developed by Blizzard Entertainment, focused on refining and expanding the gameplay mechanics of the original Diablo, while also addressing player feedback and criticisms. Modern game developers can learn from this approach by continually iterating on their game's…
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Baldur's Gate II: The Anatomy of a Sequel gamedeveloper.com
Baldur's Gate II, developed by BioWare, focused on improving upon the original game by refining the development process, learning from past mistakes, and incorporating player feedback. Modern game developers can apply these lessons by prioritizing features, establishing clear…
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Global GameDev Salaries 2020-2021 docs.google.com
A Google Sheet with salarie statistics, put together by Evva Karr *
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Forecasting model by Fellow Traveler docs.google.com
A solid template to use when forecasting sales numbers for your game.
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Seyed's Publisher Database docs.google.com
A very detailed list of game publishers with some extra notes on most of them. Go-to resource for finding yourself a publisher.
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Deconstructor of Fun deconstructoroffun.com
Not directly production related, but offers in-depth analysis on recent gamedev events, e.g. Brawl Stars ditching lootboxes: why, how and what was the outcome. You want to know about things like this when leading the production of your next mobile action game. And they also…
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Breaking The Wheel breakingthewheel.com
Justin Fischer's absolutely awesome collection of best practices and tips to leading game production. Must read.
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The Game Producer's Handbook amazon.com
Practical guide to game production, covering all aspects of game development from initial concept to final release. The book provides insights into production methodologies, team management, and project planning, and includes tips and advice from experienced game producers.
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The Game Production Handbook amazon.com
Comprehensive guide to game production, covering topics such as project management, team building, and production processes. The book includes real-world examples and case studies from successful game studios, and provides practical tips and advice for game developers at all…
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Disrupting the Game: From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo amazon.com
Highlights the challenges Garcia faced as a woman of color in a male-dominated industry, and provides valuable insights into leadership, innovation, and diversity in the tech industry.
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The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses amazon.com
If you're transitioning to a management role from game design, chances are you've read this one. If not, still consider it as it will help to understand the why's behind design decisions and challenge your team or your client.
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Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools amazon.com
It is what it says. Can't get more practical than this. It is not gamedev related, but you might want to pick up a few tricks for your next pre-production.
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Agile Game Development with SCRUM amazon.com
The book provides detailed explanations and real-world examples of how SCRUM can be used to increase productivity, improve communication, and deliver high-quality games on time and within budget.
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Producing Games: From Business and Budgets to Creativity and Design amazon.com
Read if you don't know a thing about how games are made, or skip otherwise. This book is old, but the production process hasn't fundamentally changed.
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Agile Game Development: Build, Play, Repeat amazon.com
Comprehensive guide to implementing agile methodologies in game development, covering topics from team dynamics to production processes. The book features case studies, practical tips, and exercises that provide readers with a hands-on approach to creating successful games with…
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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made amazon.com
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of several popular video games, detailing the challenges faced by game developers and the intense pressures of the industry.
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TIS-100 zachtronics.com
Open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It's the assembly language programming game you never asked for!
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Shenzhen I/O zachtronics.com
You build circuits using a variety of components from different manufacturers, like microcontrollers, memory, and logic gates, and then write code in a compact and powerful assembly language where every instruction can be conditionally executed.
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MHRD store.steampowered.com
Hardware design game, in which you design various hardware circuits in a hardware description language. The hardware circuits you design get more complex as you go until you create a fully functional CPU design.
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S3 Game s3game-level1.s3-website.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
You are the treasure hunter. Your task is to get as many secret codes and open as many chests as possible.
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RealTimeBattle realtimebattle.sourceforge.net
A programming game in which robots controlled by programs are fighting each other. The goal is to destroy the enemies, using the radar to examine the environment and the cannon to shoot.
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Programming Game programming-game.com
A realtime survival MMORPG played via websockets. There's a super simple in browser demo that showcases how to play.
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Battlesnake play.battlesnake.com
Join a community of developers from around the world as you compete for fame and glory in Battlesnake, a multi-player programming competition based on the classic game - snake! All you need to play is a live web server that implements the Battlesnake API and the language of…
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Oh my Git ohmygit.org
An open source game about learning Git!
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Mudlet mudlet.org
Game client that allows you to play MUDs (text-only MMORPGs). You can write Lua code in Mudlet to help you play MUDs.
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Guido van Robot gvr.sourceforge.net
Programming language and free software application designed to introduce beginners to the fundamentals of programming. GvR runs on Windows, Macintosh, and GNU/Linux, in a variety of languages! It's great in both the classroom and the home as a way of introducing people to the…
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Coder One gocoder.one
Annual AI programming tournament featuring a multiplayer 'Bomberman'-like game, cash prizes, and a casted finale livestream. Create an AI player that can navigate a 2D grid world collecting power-ups and placing explosives with the goal of taking your opponent down. Submit your…
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Generals IO generals.io
A fast-paced strategy game where you expand your land and battle with enemies over theirs. You lose when your general is taken, but capturing an opponent's general gives you control of their entire empire.
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Corewars corewars.org
A game of warrior vs warrior, programmed by two opponents, and placed into a virtual 'ring' to fight to the death.
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Colobot colobot.info
3D video game where you program your bots to ride, fly, find, bring, refuel and destroy. Game is using a language called CBOT, similar to C++ and Java. Colobot offers tutorialed campaign with gradually harder tasks or you can play scenarios to challenge your skill.
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Codingame codingame.com
A platform to learn and compete. Proposes a variety of multiplayer games and contests as well as optimisation challenges and solo puzzles. You can contribute your own too. Choose your language, enjoy the graphics.
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Code Games codegames.io
Real time programming game where you compete against other players by coding the behaviour of a space ship. The programming language is easy to learn and the game is super fun. Subscribe to one of our tournaments and compete for the prize.
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Lambda Spellcrafting Academy bittwiddlegames.com
A visual programming / puzzle game where you build spells to solve puzzles. Covers introductory programming, as well as some data structures and algorithms. The language is inspired by Lisp, but the game focuses on programming fundamentals that apply to most languages.
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AdventureLand adventure.land
Adventure Land is an experimental Indie MMORPG. Anyone can code up to 4 characters, let JavaScript do the grinding while you do something productive!
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Peyton Burnham youtube.com
GameMaker tutorials for top-down shooters and RPGs.
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Jordan Guillou youtube.com
Hobbyist indie dev with a few GameMaker-related tutorials.
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Gaming Reverends youtube.com
If you want to learn foundational material regarding GameMaker shaders, the "Shaders for Hobby-Programmers" playlist is definitely worth checking out.
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GravityShift Games youtube.com
A couple of genre-specific GameMaker tutorials, integrating databases into GameMaker, and more.
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Shaun Spalding youtube.com
Previous community manager at YoYo Games. Has a wide variety of beginner-friendly GameMaker tutorials and helpful updates on new GameMaker features.
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Let's Learn This Together youtube.com
Small indie dev company with a focus on providing GameMaker guides.
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GamingEngineer youtube.com
A GameMaker developer that has been in the community for many years. They have a wide variety videos showcasing what GameMaker is capable of, with a focus on 3D.
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DragoniteSpam youtube.com
Covers highly technical elements of GameMaker with a focus on 3D.
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SamSpadeGameDev youtube.com
In-depth coding tutorials for the hobbyist game maker.
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Win7 patcher for GM2024.11+ yellowafterlife.itch.io
Makes games made in new GM versions run on Windows 7.
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Window Taskbar yellowafterlife.itch.io
Windows only. Flash the game window border and/or its taskbar button.
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RerouteAudio yellowafterlife.itch.io
Organizes audio files compiled games into subdirectories. 💸
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Raw Input yellowafterlife.itch.io
Use multiple mice and keyboards. 💸
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GMLive yellowafterlife.itch.io
Livecoding / interactive programming. 💸
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file_dropper yellowafterlife.itch.io
Accept drag-and-dropping files onto a game window on Windows.
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