External Online Resources

This is a listing of the very best external online resources that the exec and members have found and shared over the years. Take a look through if you are looking for inspiration. There is an awful lot here!

Tutorials

Catlike Coding's example hex strategy game

  • See some C# and shader tutorials for the Unity game engine at Catlike Coding. Noise, procedural mesh generation, water and the unity rendering pipeline are all taught on this highly detailed site.

  • Minions Art has some great tutorials on shader graphs for sky-boxes, lava and laser visual effects.

Roystan's toon shader

  • Alan Zucconi has a very large catalogue of tutorials, including orbital mechanics, plugin development for Minecraft, and 4D rendering.

  • Roystan has fewer but equally substantive tutorials which discuss grass, outline and toon shaders.

  • See some career advice alongside shader and procedural geometry tutorials on Linden Reid’s blog.

Linden Reid's 'Greeble' shader

  • A collection of detailed Unity tutorials - everything from the marching cubes algorithm to wave function collapse.

  • A short but instructive video on procedural animation in ten steps.

  • Tutorials on lower level game programming design with C++ in SDL.

  • Find some interesting tutorials on shaders and custom rendering by Ameye.

  • See this Godot tutorial from the renown developer, Brackeys.

Assets

An exemplar sample of Kenny's assets

  • Game Programming Patterns is a great (paid) resource for understanding structures and systems in making games.

  • The Unity student plan provides access to the Unity Pro Editor & Cloud Ecosystem.

  • Kenny’s Assets is an asset library that is vast, various and virtuosic in quality (and hugely popular, for good reason).

  • Find lots of free art at OpenGameArt.

  • A paid Unity vector graphics library by Freya Holmér.

  • The Unbound game engine: a fascinating program built to support SDF Sculpting.

  • The Level Designer Toolkit is an open source app for 2D design prototyping.

  • A large (and completely free) library of 3D art assets by Quaternius.

Stories and narratives

  • Brandon Sanderson’s BYU lecture series on writing is a useful resource for the story game inclined.

  • A course by Greg Buchanan on writing a narrative game.

Miscellaneous