Resources
A Curated Collection of Game Dev Postmortems, Art Insights, and Creative Talks
This collection is heavily focused on game development (especially indie/creative/design-focused), art/visual creation, and postmortems/insight from experienced creators. There's a strong emphasis on how things are made and the thought process behind creative decisions. It's less about tutorials and more about inspiration, learning from others' experiences, and understanding the bigger picture.
- Hammock Driven Development - Rich Hickey
- Maybe Not - Rick Hickey
- The Early Days of ID Software
- Diablo: A Classic Game Postortem
- Failing to Fail: The Spiderweb Software Way
- Coding Adventure: Marching Cubes
- Coding Marching Squares
- LucasArts - The Early Years
- The Art of Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap
- The Making of Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (part 1)
- Pete Docter - Inside the Creative Community: The Power of Animated Film
- Coding Adventure: Procedural Moons and Planets
- The Secrets of Monkey Island - An Evening With Ron Gilbert (starts at 2:57:40 with very low audio levels)
- Devs Play: Doom Part 1
- Devs Play: Doom Part 2
- Devs Play: Doom Part 3
- Devs Play: Doom Part 4
- Devs Play: Doom Part 5
- Devs Play: Doom Part 6
- Devs Play: Doom Part 7
- Devs Play: Doom Part 8
- Devs Play: Doom Part 9
- Devs Play: Doom Part 10
- Creating a Doom-Style 3D engine in C
- Bottom Up vs Top Down Design in Clojure - Mark Bastian
- Classic Game Postmortem: Maniac Mansion
- The Making of Monkey Island (30th Anniversary Documentary)
- Storytime with Ron Gilbert - PAX Australia 2013 Keynote
- HandmadeCon 2015 - Ron Gilbert
- HandmadeCon 2015 - Mike Acton
- CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++"
- 8 bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box
- ExileCon Dev Talk - Procedural World Generation in Path of Exile
- What is OpenSimplex Noise?
- Justin Falcone: The Origin of HyperCard in the Breakdown of the Bicycle for the Mind
- Classic Postmortem: The Making of Myst
- Myst Co-Creator Rand Miller: Extended Interview | Ars Technica
- 10 Things You Can (and should) Do With SVG // Chris Coyier
- Another World - Director Commentary by Eric Chahi - GameCity 6
- GDC Vault: Classic Game Postmortem - Another World/Out of this World w/ Eric Chahi
- The Manhole 30th anniversary celebration with Robyn Miller
- Dmitry Baranovskiy - You Don't Know SVG
- An Introduction to DOM Events with JavaScript
- Elements of Programming Style - Brian Kernighan
- Simple Made Easy - Rich Hickey
- Computer Science - Brian Kernighan on successful language design
- An AWK love story -- Cody Mello
- Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan at VCF East 2019
- The Making of Spelunky - Documentary
- Shout at the Devil: The Making of Diablo III
- Ruminations Upon The Insidious Ubiquity of Modular Mesh Based Level Design
- design3 - Interview With Derek Yu of Mossmouth
- Jonathan Blow: How Mainstream Devs Are Getting It Wrong
- Tom Betts - The Wilder World of Generation [PROCJAM 2015]
- Ken Williams - Sierra Online - Interview
- Procedural Generation of Sokoban Levels
- Reset Button: The Biggest Game Ever
- stdin / stdout / stderr (beginner - intermediat) anthony explains #050
- Argparse Basics - How I run my scripts via the Command Line
- Git Branches Tutorial
- Create mind-blowing AI RENDERINGS of your 3D animations! [Free Blender + SDXL]
- how to make realistic clouds in blender in 20 minutes
- Procedural scenes in Blender - the "View-Painters" example
- Classic Game Postmortem: Karateka
- Procedural Content Generation in UE5 | GDC 2023
- Procedurally generated content in Sir, You are Being Hunted: a Unite Nordic 2013 presentation
- Open Source Tools for Game Development
- Tim Schafter, Double Fine - XOXO Festival (2013)
- Matthew Inman Keynote | Interactive 2013 | SXSW
- How Rayman Legends Is Made
- Matt Chat 168: Sandy Peterson on Doom, Quake, and Ensemble
- Doom level editing
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask's dungeon design | Boss Keys
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time's dungeon design | Boss Keys
- Classic Game Postmortem: Robotron: 2084
- Meaningful Choice in Game Level Design
- Technical Artist Bootcamp: The VFX of Diablo III
- GDC Classic Postmortem: Warren Robinett
- A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman | Documentary
- Browse the Web Better
- Flopping Successfully: Running a Studio Without a Huge Hit
- Digital Shape Carving with Scott Flanders
- The Witness Documentary
- Death's Door Developers Explain its Design & Philosophy | Noclip
- Coding Marching Squares