HELP! IT’S 3AM AND I CAN’T GET THIS TO COMPILE!!!! AND IT’S DUE!!!
Step 1: Google it. Check forums.
Step 2: Head to IRC or Forums
- http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/IRC
- @irc.freenode.net || #reddit-gamedev
Step 3: Begin calling other students who could help
Step 4: Begin creating baked goods in the faint hope your teacher will give you an extension. (double fudge chocolate brownies, if you’re wondering).
Some Important Game Designer thinkers
- Leadership Letters – Letters from game designers to their past selves
- Extra Credits
- Daniel Cook
- Scott Rogers
- Tim Stellmach
- Ernest Adams: No Twinkie Database
- Brenda Romero
- MDA: A Formal Approach to Game Design and Game Research
- Nick Yee
- Richard Bartle
- Tom Sloper: Entering the Industry Advice Archive
- Darius Kazemi
Papers and Articles
- What does Batman think about SpongeBob? Children’s understanding of the fantasy/fantasy distinction
- Why do adventure games suck?
- Nick Yee’s Motivations of Play
- Gaming Myths
- Other Jenkins writings
- Indie RPG Games
- MDA: Mechanics, Dynamics, Aethetics
- The art of game design
Books
- The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses is a fantastic book.
- A Theory of Fun by Raph Koster
- Level Up! by Scott Rogers
- Better Game Characters by Design: A Psychological Approach by Katherine Isbister
- Rules of Play by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman
- The Game Design Reader by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman
- Character Development and Story Telling by Lee Sheldon
- Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design
- Chris Crawford on Game Design
- Chris Crawford on Interactive Storytelling
- Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art Scott McCloud (Highly recommended)
- The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
- The Atomic Chef: and Other True tales of Design, Technology, and Human Errorby Steven Casey
- Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell
- Interaction Design: Beyond Human Computer Interaction
- Game Usability: Advancing the Player Experience by Katherine Isbister and Noah Schaffer
- Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton
Unity3D
- Unity Tutorials
- Unity Gems
- Cooking with Unity
- Quill18 Creates
- ETeeski Unity3D Game Design Tutorials
- Walker Boy Studio
- Unity Cookie
- BurgZerg Arcade
- 3D Buzz
- Unity3dStudent
- DigitalTutors
- Design3
- Unity Skeletal Ragdoll / Jiggle Bones Tutorial
- TornadoTwins
- UnifyCommunity Tutorials List
- Dream Shaders in Unity
Creating Art
- Deviant Art Tutorials
- 2D game Art for Programmers
- The total beginners guide to better 2D Art
- DOTA 2 Character Art Guide
- DOTA 2 Character Texture Guide
- The Top Ten Tips of Texturing
- Pixel Art in Illustrator
Some other places to learn stuff
- http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/
- http://www.worldofleveldesign.com/articles.php#leveldesigntuts
- http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/tutorials/
- http://www.gdcvault.com/ (Many of these require a login/Payment)
- Excellent Audio Resource Guide
Some Game Dev and some Art pages
- http://www.conceptart.org
- http://www.cgtalk.com
- http://www.tigsource.com
- http://www.indiegamer.com
- http://www.gamedev.net
- http://www.polycount.org
- http://www.deviantart.com
- http://www.cgfeedback.com/cgfeedback
- http://www.Game-Artist.net
- http://www.3dtotal.com
- http://www.igda.org
Other Game Developer Hangouts
- http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev
- http://www.indiedb.com/
- http://www.moddb.com/
- http://www.neogaf.com/forum/