Game Engines / Frameworks

Unity

Unity Tutorials

• Unity Learn
• Procedural Mesh Generation
• 2D Top Down Pixel Art RPG Crash Course

Godot

Uncategorized Resources

• Procedural generation with Godot: Creating caves with Cellular Automata
• (Zenva) The Best Godot 4 Tutorials – Complete Game Dev Guide
  • Note - may require email signup to access resources.
• Godot 4 Crash Course for Beginners - GameDev 2D Top Down Tutorial
• Godot 4 Roguelike Tutorial
• Godot 4 Recipes
• Awesome Godot Scripts/Links
• Miziziziz tutorials

PyGame

• Pygame Tutorials
• ClearCode channel

p5.js

Bitsy

• Bitsy Tutorial
• Bitsy Variables

Twine

• Reference Manual
• Twine Cookbook (how to do all the things)
• Twine Guide
• Twine Gaming

C/C++

• Raylib

Love2D

Haxe

• HaxeFlixel
• Inspiration from Haxe Games

Level Editors

• Tiled
• LDtk

Asset Resources

At some point adding graphics and sound to your game are going to help make it shine. Here are some resources to help you for adding a bit of polish.

Our suggestion is to use royalty-free or creative commons-licensed assets to avoid any sort of licensing issues. Ensure you read the terms of usage for ANY asset you use, as typically you will need to give attribution!

Asset Repositories

• OpenGameArt
• itch.io Game Assets

Blender

• Blender 3 - Complete Beginner's Guide
• Blender Keybindings (may be out of date)
• Blender Keybindings
• Blender 2D topdown camera view
• Blender Liquid (from ocean/shrinkwrap modifiers)

Blender Tips

Set camera to top-down 2D view

c/o: Blender StackExchange

1. Select camera in scene heirarchy
2. Alt+g (reset position)
3. Alt+r (reset rotation)
4. g+z (move along z-axis)

Rotate camera around object (at origin)

1. Add an empty (axes)
2. Parent camera to empty
   • Click the empty
   • Hold shift, grab camera, move onto empty
3. Animate empty

Fluid simulation

• See: https://www.versluis.com/2022/06/creating-fluid-simulations-in-blender/

Other Resources

Git/GitHub-Related

• GitHub Pages guide
• git - the simple guide
• Git Guide
• Git Book
• How to Get Started with GIT and work with GIT Remote Repo
• A Simple GitHub Tutorial
• Basic Git Commands (c/o Dr. Dowling)
• Git Tutorial (c/o Dr. Dowling)

Uncategorized

• Cables.gl -- Node-based rendering on the web
• The Coding Train -- P5.js/Processing tutorials
• Moving from Three.js Geometry to BufferGeometry