Game Development Resources

Last reviewed:

2019-02-17

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

Sound Effects

• Freesound

Fonts

• The Font Library

Icons

• Icons for everything - royalty free icons (over 1 million, it claims)

Finding Collaborators

• Teamups