Game Development Resources¶
Last reviewed: | 2019-02-17 |
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We asked PyWeek users for their suggestions for game development resources.
The following is an attempt to curate the suggestions.
Articles and tutorials¶
- Fun and Games in Python - a history of PyWeek, Pygame, Pyglet and more, with analysis on what makes games fun
- How to be Successful at PyWeek
- Some Game Development Tips & Tricks
- How to fail at PyWeek (slides)
- PyGame wiki chock full of tutorials, game resources, distribution advice and more.
- Big List of Indie Resources
- Big List of Game Design
- Game Mechanics Explorer
- Amit’s Game Programming Information contains a huge resource on game design and implementation
- Game Accessibility Guidelines
- A Whole Lot of PyGame Examples
- Red Blob Games has superb interactive tutorials on a number of topics.
- On frame rates, vsync and gameplay simulation.
- Pixel art tutorials
- Al Sweigert’s Video Game Mechanics Mixer.
- “Designing a retro pixel-art tile-set”
- Evaluating Game Mechanics For Depth - This article is probably one of the most useful I’ve ever read and is great for evaluating whether a game idea is good or not in advance.
- Nice writeup of various approaches to 2D platformer games.
Video Tutorials¶
- “Juice It Or Lose It” - an awesome presentation about making games more fun with very simple ideas.
- Great video about good game design as illustrated by the Mega Man series (caution: contains swearing)
2D Graphics¶
- Kenney has a vast library of cute 3D sprites, as well as 3D models and sound files.
- OpenGameArt has 2D art, 3D models and textures.
- Game Icons - a collection of icons representing video game tropes.
3D Models¶
- Models by Quaternius
- Google Poly has many CC low-poly models (but it also has other 3D content created by Tilt Brush and other tools, which are not useful in games.
Textures¶
- CC0Textures.com - public domain PBR texture sets
- Texture Haven
Content Creation¶
- Pyxeledit is a pixel art, tile map, tile set and sprite sheet editor of awesomeness. It’s inspired by Pixothello but is improved in many ways (not the least of which is it’s cross-platform.)
- Pixen is a really nice pixel art app for OS X but it doesn’t have the same awesome tileset creation mode as Pyxeledit.
- Tiled Map Editor
- A collection of links to game assets and various game-dev related tools.Here’s a list of art asset creation tools
Music¶
- http://ccmixter.org/
- Royalty free music by inkaudio
- Random music generator
- Filmmusic.io creative commons music
Fonts¶
Icons¶
- Icons for everything - royalty free icons (over 1 million, it claims)