Resources

If you're just getting into making games, it's like most crafts: start small, keep practicing & embrace failures. You can start making games today using everyday objects as pieces.

Videos

• Game Developers Conference Youtube channel (tons of good talks on game development)
• Game Maker’s Toolkit
• Extra Credits: Making Your First Game
• Extra Credits: Game Careers
• So You Wanna Make Games?? Intro to game art playlist from Riot, plus a video about game design at the end.
• Makin' Stuff Look Good In Video Games

Podcasts

• Game Dev Club
• Game Maker's Notebook
• Imaginary Worlds (not explicitly about games, but a great game adjacent podcast)
• Eggplant: The Secret Life of Games
• Another Castle
• The Psychology of Video Games Podcast
• GDC Podcast

Game Jams

Game Jams are a great way to get experience and learn from others, find some here:

• Global Game Jam
• Indie Game Jams
• Itch.io Game Jams
• Ludum Dare

Game Engines

• Learn Game Maker
• Learn Unity
• Your first hour with Unreal
• Unreal online learning videos
• Godot engine docs, your first 2d game

CG

• Blender Basics
• Blender Tutorials
• Learning Houdini

Game Design

• Stone Librande's Game Design Fundamentals course syllabus
• The Art of Game Design
• Game Feel: A Game Designer’s Guide to Virtual Sensation.
• Raph Koster's blog, also his book Theory of Fun for Game Design
• Tracy Fullerton's writing

Game Programming

• Red Blob Games high quality blog about game programming topics
• Catlike Coding > Unity C# and Shader Tutorials for the Unity Engine

Game Industry Analysis

• Deconstructor of Fun
• The GameDiscoverCo Newsletter

Other Resource Collections

• 38 Great Resources for Game Developers by Jasmine Greene
• 21 Free Learning Resources for Game Developers by Nathan Lovato
• The Ultimate List of Free and Low-Cost Developer Tools and Resources by GameSparks
• 100+ No Code Resources trello board maintained by Mariam Hakobyan
• Morphogenesis Resources List of resources that are useful for procedural generation.
• The Very Best Game Design Books

This page is incomplete! If you know something that can help someone learn about game development, please contribute!