Here’s a list of things I find really useful, be it for learning or sharpening my skills, and inspiring to improve each day.
- 5 Problems Developing Talent -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlpKKo-cp0
- 30 Things I hate about your Game Pitch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LTtr45y7P0
- How to quickly improve your art - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orgVs2csqbo
- 5 Pillars & Pitfalls for Indie games - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf8TfqD_fFk&t=1575s
- Killer Portfolio or Portfolio Killer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RcYAwP3YJ8&t=17s
- Healthy Habits of a successful Game maker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eNbyZ6Y7xA&t=4s
- 101 Laws for Indie Devs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eAW-7Js7NA
- Simplest AI Tricks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVBCBcEANBc
- Designing Awesome AI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xWg54mdQos
- Intentionally Create Discomfort - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3FE-QKh3Ps&t=14s
- You DONT need a publisher - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAI5W7Y5H28
- AI Dissasters - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5whYgSTV0
- Possible Indiepocalypse - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r30CIneO534
- Make your game funny - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLbmZT70rtA
- Improve your intellectual property - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJalKJZqAMM
- Making Games for youtube- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mV9vuxe9r8
- Choice, Consequence, Complicity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfITxaXeqM
- Negative Space and Level Design - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ99gAb4T0o
- N++ Level Design - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ4xevskMCI
- Mobile Storytolling that works on AAA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjVF24anbgA
- A Geographer's Guide to Game Worlds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVGonAUUQ8c
- Meaningful Choice in Level Design - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEF4GVNzkUw
- Paper Prototype for Narrative Design - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taxcb_5lEI8
- Build better Apocalypse - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrB1fZ7v17c
- Home of Expectation vs Reality - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChj0w0duKtp7SDd_X9CNptw
- IK Rig: Procedural Pose Animation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjTU0yKS00
- Marketing Indie Style - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJHZFnOMAjw
- Mad Skillz for Directing Dialogue - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElcZw3wg--4
- Creating Strong Video Game Characters - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mgK2hL33Vw&t=299s
- Low Poly Modeling: Style Through Economy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1oNuKChsdU&t=1588s
- Game Dev
- https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev
- https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueGameDev
- https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedevscreens
- https://www.reddit.com/r/devblogs
- https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedevclassifieds
- https://www.reddit.com/r/INAT
- https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieGames
- https://www.reddit.com/r/LevelDesign
- https://www.reddit.com/r/GameJams
- https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnProgramming
- https://www.reddit.com/r/PlayMyGame
- Other Resources
- https://www.reddit.com/r/tabletopgamedesign
- https://www.reddit.com/r/ludology
- https://www.reddit.com/r/themakingofgames
- https://www.reddit.com/r/indiegaming
- https://www.reddit.com/r/testimonials
- http://www.reddit.com/r/LoGC/
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
- https://github.com/phillipadsmith/awesome-github
- https://github.com/ellisonleao/magictools
- https://github.com/RyanNielson/awesome-unity
- https://github.com/hzoo/awesome-gametalks
- https://github.com/felipebueno/awesome-PICO-8
- https://github.com/leereilly/games
- http://www.gameconfs.com/
- http://compohub.net/
- http://forums.tigsource.com/
- http://indiedb.com/
- http://www.ludust.com/
- http://www.teamups.net/
- http://www.gamasutra.com
- https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/wiki/index
- http://www.pixelprospector.com/indie-resources/ - Highly Recomended
- http://WayUp.com - LinkedIn for students[?]
- http://itch.io - Indie Game Steam-like place (also great for portfolio)
- http://itch.io/jams - GameJams
- https://www.linkedin.com/
- https://gamxin.com/ - HIGHLY RECOMENDED (new, LinkedIn for Game Industry)
- StackSkills
- https://store.destructoid.com/sales/game-developer-bundle-3d-and-unity
- https://store.destructoid.com/sales/pay-what-you-want-2016-zero-to-hero-game-dev-bundle
- https://store.destructoid.com/sales/game-development-with-python-bundle
- https://store.destructoid.com/sales/coding-for-kids-develop-games-learn-python
- https://stackskills.com/courses/the-complete-real-time-web-and-game-development-course
- https://store.destructoid.com/sales/3d-design-bundle
- https://store.destructoid.com/sales/front-end-dev-bundle-html-css-js
- https://store.destructoid.com/sales/adobe-web-and-graphic-design-master-package-135-course-bundle-2yrs
- uDemy
- https://www.udemy.com/3dmotive-learn-advanced-c-scripting-in-unity-5/
- https://www.udemy.com/unity-5-interact-with-the-database-like-a-pro-php-mysql/
- https://www.udemy.com/learn-complete-web-development-from-scratch/
- https://www.udemy.com/learn-to-compose-video-game-music-in-fl-studio-in-1-hour/
- https://www.udemy.com/vrcourse/
- Other Sites
- Explore one thing a time
- From Most Intresting
- PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
- Watch speed*, sculpts, model, paint, draw, etc
- Get out from outside your comfort zone
- Use #ScreenshotSaturday, #MadeWithUnity, #UE4, #MadeWithBlender, #AutodeskMaya hashtags
- People actually see these posts, use them wisely
- Use Trello, Git, Blackboard, and other tools, not just notes on paper.
- Surround yourself with people who know more than you, and learn from them
- Always try to ask for advice or discuss
- Read books, use them, learn their pattern, and ultimately out-best the book
Please Share and Review the list and it’s contents. If you find something interesting or useful, please suggest, this list is always growing and I hope to make it bigger and far more updated. I hope you find something useful for you or a friend.