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Production is a crucial role in game development, and is also in high industry demand. It should be represented in this list. Producers, if you have resources for your role, please submit them!

I remember having an extremely hard time getting a foothold in graphical programming at all. So much math, concepts, programming paradigms and project design patterns that I felt downright overwhelmed and demotivated. Just a generic Unity tutorial alone has to explain so much to even show anything reasonable without even going into detail.

To live up to the "learn" part of the name of the repo, more time should be spent on giving resources for absolute beginners to learn more about general graphical programming (the math, rendering, interactivity), an extra section on the most basic basics should be added. Even for people who have years of experience can benefit from some lesser known basics.

I see that some very basic resources are already in here, but I would like to see them presented separately in an extra section so that there is no need to search for them for a long time (especially as this list will continue to grow). A structure that takes beginners and readers right by the hand.

I've picked out a few here that I had very good experiences with and learned a lot from:

• TheCodingTrain (Dan Shiffman) is a very wholesome person who takes every programming beginner by hand with joy and verve, and programs small games and complex algorithms in an understandable way and nicely visualized.
• CodingMath (Keith Peters) has a very beginner friendly and understandably written series on math for graphics programmers. It goes over many topics ans sort of gives a rough overview of what graphical programming is. While his series is over (unfortunately), these days he writes blog posts as Bit101 (he is also on github with the same name). It's important to watch his videos as he talks about verlet integration, tweening and easing in a very understandable way.
• Freya Holmér puts a big focus on shaders and interpolation in her videos. It's written entirely in Unity. She also provides many visualizations about trigonometry on her Twitter. If it's about some, actually known, trigonometric problem, she probably has a visualization of it, which explains it amazingly simple, on her Twitter. Her talk at the IndiaGDC is also worth watching
• AdamCYounis deals entirely with pixelart and pixelart algorithms in Unity. He's really good at pixelart and you learn an incredible amount just from watching him.

And here are two people who have a lot of essays about game design:
Game Design Thinking and Razbuten

As a newcomer into gamedev I found very helpful the list of game engines by language compiled by the github/itch.io game off (e.g. Help - I've never created a game before!)

• - Several resources are twitter threads, which are unstable for a whole host of reasons (tweets can be deleted, accounts get suspended or deleted all the time, etc). For longevity, extract all links and any relevant text from these threads and store them in an archival-friendly format.

• - Several resources are youtube playlists, which are unstable for similar reasons to twitter threads. For longevity, extract all video links from each youtube playlist to a separate file (preferably markdown) and link them beneath the playlist, just in case a playlist gets lost. A tutorial on how to extract a youtube playlist: https://dtomoffcpa.medium.com/youtube-playlist-to-linked-list-in-excel-why-not-3a96297e980c

The internet archive is your best friend and is a great place to start, though it is not a silver bullet as sub-links are sometimes missed in the archival process.

Here is a collection of open source game engines. I think it's useful for learning game dev.
You can see the overview of open source game engine and which engines are becoming popular, which can be used as a reference for technology selection.

Hello, I found some broken hyperlinks:

• https://www.gamesparks.com/the-ultimate-list-of-free-and-low-cost-developer-tools-and-resources/ (file: README.md, error: ENOTFOUND)
• http://sigbovik.org (file: README.md, error: EAI_AGAIN)
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DLccwkSK1B8fJ3TV4X1-8ktiDmzgnelkNMamZfz3hYE/edit (file: README.md, status code: 410)
• https://www.sunyoungkim.org/class/old/hci_f18/pdf/The-Design-of-Everyday-Things-Revised-and-Expanded-Edition.pdf (file: README.md, status code: 404)
• https://www.gameindustrycareerguide.com/how-to-become-a-video-game-producer/ (file: README.md, status code: 404)
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/14jsiaFOXuBi9QsXOF2DJVFXCRP4RwqGY3xmMHlqf3y4/edit (file: README.md, status code: 410)