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Resources

Below are a few helpful resources. Let Dr. Denning know if any of the links are broken or if you have any resource suggestions to add.

Your Game Idea is too Big
Themes
- Random Game Jam Theme Generator
Engines
- Unity Gaming Engine
- Blender Gaming Engine (BGE)
- Unreal Engine
- ROBLOX
- GameMaker
- Godot
  - Your first game
- Construct 3
- Urho3D
- PICO-8
  - PICO-8 Manual
  - PICO-8 Cheat Sheet
  - PICO-8 API Cheat Sheet
  - A curated list of awesome PICO-8 resources, carts, tools and more
  - PICO-8 Lua
  - Clear code | Justin Scott
  - PICO-8 Packages
  - Provides Lua built-in function to PICO-8
  - PICO-8 Spaceshooter in 16 GIFs
  - PICO-8 combiner script (python)
  - Writing a game using PICO-8 | RNDBITS-001, part 1, 2
  - Breakout | TeamworkCast
    1. Hello World
    2. Functions And Variables
    3. If Statements
    4. Sound Effects
    5. Moving The Paddle
    6. Collision
    7. More Collision
    8. Final Collision
    9. Game States
    10. Bricks
    11. Brick Lines
    12. Debugging
    13. ...
  - Javascript implementation of the PICO-8 Fantasy Console (WIP)
  - Tools and Python libraries for manipulating PICO-8 game files | Dan Sanderson
  - Sharing the love: making games with PICO-8
  - Example Games:
    - Pong Clone
    - Cheap Driving Game
  - PICO-8 Font
  - Pong for PICO-8 | fREW Schmidt's Foolish Manifesto
  - PICO-8 Fanzine
Programming libraries and tips
- Python
  - GameDevLapse: Breakout, Pong, Doodle Jump, Space Invaders, Flappy Bird
  - PyInstaller, Nuitka: tools for creating a single binary
  - PyGame
  - SFML
  - pyglet
  - Cocos2d
  - Panda3D
  - gloo
  - Kivy
  - PySDL2
  - RAPT Pygame example (running Pygame on Android)
- C/C++
  - GLFW
  - Cocos2d
  - Panda3D
- WebGL
  - three.js
  - WebGL Fundamentals
- Lua
  - LÖVE
- General
Royalty free audio (sounds, music)
Graphics
Readings
Video Series