Resources

📦 Assets and Packages

• Yarn Spinner: Open-source tool for writing game dialogue
• Kenny: Free game assets
• freesound: Find any sound you like
• ComfyUI: Design and execute advanced stable diffusion pipelines using a graph/nodes/flowchart based interface
• Eleven Labs: Convert text to speech online for free with our AI voice generator. Create natural AI voices instantly in any language

🥳 Fun Times

• My First 10 Years of Game Development: A YouTube video by Sebastian Lague
• 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds: Text adventure game
• Lost Pig: Text adventure game
• Queers in Love at the End of the World: NSFW Text adventure game
• With Those We Love Alive: Text adventure game
• The Tiniest Room: Text adventure game
• Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development: From Concept to Playable Game with Unity and C#: For a more structured learning approach to Unity and programming, a book by Jeremy Gibson Bond
• A Dark Room: Content Warning (GORE) A minimalist text adventure
• Thirty Flights of Loving: Radical art simplification, cinematic use of camera, not explaining very much

🗺️ Guides for Concepts

👩‍💻 C-Sharp

• Unity C# Intermediate Scripting Tutorials: Comprehensive playlist of important C# concepts that commonly used in Unity scripting
• Coding in C# in Unity for Beginners: The very basics of coding, like variables, functions and classes, and how to use them in Unity
• Brackeys: Brackeys allows anyone - no matter their budget - to create top-quality games
• The C# Player’s Guide: An entertaining programming book that teaches you C# through games

👩‍💻 C++

• The Cherno

🥽 Virtual Reality

• Valem Tutorials
• Meta Quest Build Your First App

🤳 Augmented Reality

• Get Started with AR Foundation in Unity
• Project-Based Augmented Reality Course with Unity Engine and AR Foundation

📱 iOS: Swift and SwiftUI

• Introducing SwiftUI
• Introduction to SpriteKit
• Create a Multiplayer iOS Game
• Unity Apple Game Center Documentation
• Apple Unity Plug-Ins

📱 Android (Kotlin)

• Modern Android App Architecture
• Android Basics in Kotlin
• Android Permission Requests
• Android Studio and Kotlin Tutorial - Music Player

💎 Computer Graphics

• The Graphics Codex: A digital reference and learning resource for computer graphics
• Experimental Augmented Reality User Experience: A paper on computer graphics from the Human-Computer Interaction perspective
• Vulkan Tutorial: A tutorial by the Kronos group on Vulkan

👾 Asymptotics

• Berkeley CS 61A: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Berkeley CS 61B: Data Structures
• PathFinding.js
• VisuAlgo
• Big-O Cheat Sheat
• USFCA Visualizations
• Data Structures Wikibook
• Khan Academy: Adding & Subtracting Vectors: Build your intuition on adding and subtracting vectors

🛠️ Guides for Tools

🐱 Git

• GitHub Hello World
• Berkeley CS61B Using Git
• Berkeley CS61B Weird Technical Failure Scenarios
• Git Documentation
• A Hacker's Guide to Git

♾️ Perforce

• Perforce Tutorial
• Perforce Youtube
• A Visual Guide to Version Control: An article on version control concepts
• Helix Visual Client (P4V): Download Helix Visual Client (P4V)

🟪 Visual Studio

• Visual Studio for Unity QuickStart

🟦 Visual Studio Code

• Visual Studio Code Extensions
• Learn to Code with Visual Studio Code
• Set up Visual Studio Code for Unity on Macs
• Unity for Visual Studio Code

🎮 Unity

• Unity Lego Microgame
• Learn Unity
• GameDev.tv
• Complete C# Unity Game Developer 3D
• Kodeco: Introduction to Unity: Learn about the Unity Interface and how to create your first game in Unity with this Unity Tutorial for Beginners. By Brian Moakley.
• Kodeco: How to Make a Game like Bomberman with Unity: Ever want to blow up your friends? Learn how to make a game like a Bomberman with Unity 3D in this step by step tutorial that will have you setting bombs off with ease. By Brian Broom.
• Noob Tuts: Unity GameObjects and Components: An article that explains Unity and how to work with it effectively.
• Brackleys: Scriptable Objects: Includes an example of how scriptable objects are useful
• LinkedIn Learning: Unity 3D: Login with USC ID or your LinkedIn account

🎮 Unreal Engine

• Unreal Sensei
• GameDev.tv
• Unreal Engine Learn

🎮 Godot Engine

• Godot Engine GitHub
• Godot Tutorials
• GDQuest
• Godot Docs
• Games from Scratch
• KidsCanCode
• Learn GDScript From Zero

🍩 Blender

• Blender Guru
• Blender Tutorials
• Chris Holt

💪 Interview Preparation

❤️ Mentorship

• ADPList: Find mentorship
• The Blind: Advice and salaries
• trueup: Job Listings
• Pramp: Interview Prep
• USC Handshake

📝 Resume and CVs

• STAR Method
• Action Words
• Berkeley Resume Samples

⌨️ Technical Interviews

• Neetcode.io: Programming Questions
• Leetcode Game Theory: Practice Questions
• Take-Home Projects: Technical Exams
• Coding Interview Patterns
• Cracking the Coding Interview

🎨 Portfolio

• GitHub Profile README
• Sean Allen
• National Portfolio Day
• Figma Portfolio Templates