Here's a quick collection of links to game developer blogs and/or portfolios that I've found interesting. This repository serves two purposes:
- Writing down cool people (and companies) that do cool things
- Showcasing various ways to showcase your work
To help showcase different types of portfolios, I've split the list into those that are strictly portfolios, while others are portfolios with a blog attached. Company websites are also included in their own section, reflecting how larger organizations differ in voice and presentation.
Portfolio websites focus on introducing a person and their past work.
- Anton Palmqvist - Simple and elegant portfolio website
- Ben Porter - Portfolio site w/ project-centric homepage
- Full Project List - a table of all notable past projects, small/personal and large/commercial
- Freya's stuff (Freya Holmer) - Math Demiurge known for "Shapes" and "Shader Forge". Highlights current/past/side projects and talks.
- Jack Humbert - One-pager landing page for socials and portfolio
- Jenn Sandercock - Personal portfolio site with cute and on-brand food theme
- About Jenn - Mini-bio and interactive game bibliography with sorting, filtering, and detail views
- Lucas Meijer - One-pager landing page for socials and portfolio (again)
- C++, C# and Unity (this site was previously a blog site, so some posts are still available)
- Lithish - Landing page with links to games and art portfolios + blog coming soon
- Xan Farley's Portfolio - Two column format with cover art on the left and brief descriptors on the right
- Natalie Burke - One-pager timeline of past works for portfolio
Developer blogs explore past (or present!) problems encountered during development and/or provide tutorial content on solving specific needs. They also often contain a section for showcasing the developer's past works or projects.
- Adrian Courrages - Performs in-depth graphics studies on recent games
- Alan Zucconi - Quick tutorials and breakdowns of short concepts + portfolio
- Alexander Ameye - Blog covering various specific graphical techniques or tools
- Alex Forsythe - Text-heavy portfolio site covering his personal, commercial, and other works
- Amos - Known for Rust and deep-dives on various systems
- Amit Patel - Interactive explorations of common problem spaces in game development
- ben 🌱 ui - "As I learn new things in Unreal Engine, I like to write them down so I don't forget. 🌱" + portfolio
- Bob Nystrom - Language design posts w/ a spice of personal posts
- Bronson Zgeb - Sharing Unity developer tips and tricks
- Bruce Dawson - Dives deep into profiling and various fringe topics
- Erin Catto - Developer of Box2D. Posts and publications around physics and "low-level" concepts.
- Evan Todd - Breaks down common problems in games via the "Poor Man's x" Series + portfolio
- Eevee - Blog, dev blog, portfolio, and pretty much everything else that's relevant to their work or public life.
⚠️ Note: This website contains links (with warnings) to content not safe for viewing by minors.- Particle wipe generator
- Coaxing 2D platforming out of Unity
- Erik Nordeus - Open source implementations and tutorials for games and simulation
- Fabien Sandlard - Analyzes and explores game engines and low-level functionality + portfolio
- Gabriel Gambetta - Assorted articles on networking, rendering, and writing
- Glenn Fiedler - Deep dives on networking, physics, and common development patterns.
- Internal Pointers - misc. posts on tech, math, IT, etc.
- Writing a custom iterator in modern C++
- Note: One of the few blogs without a portfolio.
- Liz England - Simple personal site with a plethora of links to works, talks, resume, and resources
- Game Design Library - Library of books on game design, w/o call-outs for her favorites
- MinionsArt Tutorials - A large collection of shader and VFX tutorials, initially for BIRP, and now for URP
- World Position Radius Effects (in Shader Graph)
- Note: This site is more of a hub/collection - each page links out to Patreon/YouTube for the actual content.
- Nicky Case - Pioneer of interactive articles (a.k.a. explorable explanations)
- Noel Berry - Portfolio and mini-blog
- Rami Ismail (Levelling The Playing Field) - Sharing lessons learned from developing games as a business, not just a hobby
- Simon Trümpler + Blog - Landing page with links out to other platforms for talks/portofolio/blog etc.
- GTA V – Underestimated Glow - Mini-VFX breakdown of how GTA V implements its glowing red traffic lights
- Tom Looman - Collection of original tutorials and resources for Unreal Engine
- Václav Vančura - Design + Development blog, recently focusing on their work at Microsoft
Company blogs provide players with behind-the-scenes at look at the process. They may also have engineering posts that are relevant to other developers in the industry.
- Campo Santo
- Red Blue Games
- Riot Games Engineering
- Spotify Design - Updates and thoughts around changes to the Spotify UI + UX
- Unity Blog: Technology
- Wolfire Games
⚠️ WARN: HTTPS not available. HTTP only.- GDC13 Summary: Animation Bootcamp Part 5/6
Contained below is an assorted collections of articles that are not part of a specific blog.
- Natalya Shelburne - Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
If you're looking to start your own blog, here are some platforms/services that are frequented by the games industry (or adjacent) that provide a space for you to do so.
- dev.to - General software engineering platform with a very small game community
- Game Developer
- 1500 Archers on a 28.8 by Mark Terrano and Paul Bettner
- GameDev.net - A game developer forum with a blog platform
- Ludum Dare - Homepage of the Ludum Dare game jam, which has an integrated blogging platform
- TIGForums - Blog posts as forum threads on a well-known game development forum
There are other solutions that are less reliant on a platform like Netlify or GitHub Pages, but they will require additional setup on your part.
This is also reflected in LICENSE.md for visibility.
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