fronkongames / awesome-gamedev

A curated collection of resources to game development.

Hi 👋 I'm Martin Bustos, a indie game developer and asset store publisher

• 🔭 I am currently working on a zombie card game, a framework for game development and assets for Unity.
• 📝 I write articles on my web.
• 💬 Ask me about game development and Unity ([email protected]).

Game Development

• Game:Work, a framework to develop Unity based games.
  • Foundation: architecture-agnostic code and tools.
  • Core: a micro-kernel framework with dependency injection and event-driven communication.
  • Modules:
    • Local Data: async load/save local data with compression, encryption and integrity check.
    • Scene: async scene loading management module.
    • Tween: tween / easing module.
• Tools, utilities for video game development.
  • Tiny Tweens: a complete and easy to use Tweens library in one file.
  • Build History: keep a history of all the builds you do.
  • Code Wizard: generation of customizable code templates for Unity.
• Datasets, related to video game development.
  • Global Game Jam Dataset (huggingface, kaggle), information about games and participants of the 'Global Game Jam'.
  • Steam Games Dataset (huggingface, kaggle), the largest dataset with information on games published on Steam.
• Articles.
  • Awesome GameDev, a curated collection of resources to game development.
  • Unity Is A Harsh Mistress 💔, a calm analysis of Unity's latest business plans and a conclusion.
  • Design Patterns In Game Development, a tutorial on the use of Design Patterns in game development.
  • Introduction To Go, the oldest board game still played today.
• Twitter Bots, related to game development.
  • One Game Idea A Day, generates game ideas using Machine Learning.
  • Game Development Daily News, news, resources and job offers about game development (and its Spanish version).
  • Unity Store Deals, searches for all asset offers in the Unity Store.
  • Cant Refuse Offer, Unity Store assets with good ratings and offers.

Assets for Unity

• Artistic Bundle, enhance your creativity and get a unique style with this effects bundle.

  • Oil Paint, transform your games into pieces of art (demo, youtube).
  • One Bit, a hipster, original and versatile look using a dithering with blue noise (demo, youtube).
  • Tilt Shift, tilt-shift style miniature scene (demo, youtube).
  • Color Isolation, isolates areas by color and applies effects (demo, youtube).
  • Sharpen, vibrant details, crisp images (demo, youtube).
  • Tonemapper, maps HDR into LDR using different algorithms (demo, youtube).
  • Comic, simulates the printing technique used in comics and newspapers (demo, youtube).
  • Neon, neon synthwave effect (demo, youtube).
  • Spark, adds bloom and ray-of-light effects (demo, youtube).
  • Radial Blur, increases the feeling of speed and adrenaline (demo, youtube).

• Spice Up Bundle, a large selection of effects to give juice to your games (youtube).

  • Damage, a visual indicator of health and damage received (demo, youtube).
  • Drunk, now you can let players know that they are drinking too much (demo, youtube).
  • Stoned, too many potions of questionable origin? This asset simulates any of its effects! (demo, youtube).
  • Frozen, experience a realistic and immersive freezing effect (demo, youtube).
  • Speed Lines, anime speed lines (demo, youtube).
  • Blurry, blurred vision based on previous frames (demo, youtube).
  • Double Vision, dual vision effect with steroids (demo, youtube).
  • Rain, simulates the raindrops on the screen (demo, youtube).
  • Ghost Vision, the vision of strange creatures (demo, youtube).
  • Scanner, cameras, monitors and robots (demo, youtube).
  • Death Screen, the last screen (demo, youtube).
  • Purkinje, night scenes, as seen by the human eye (demo, youtube).
  • Broken Screen, real-time glass fractures (demo, youtube).
  • Pulse, focus on one point on the screen (demo, youtube).
  • Shake, like in an earthquake! (demo, youtube).
  • Night Vision, the most versatile, configurable and economical solution for your night vision effects (demo, youtube).
  • BodyCam, like the one used by police officers, perfect for FPS (demo, youtube).
  • Lens Flare, easy to use and with many settings (demo, youtube).

• Retro Bundle, a great collection of retro effects, simple to use and with many configuration options (youtube).

  • ASCII, the old-school ASCII effect with steroids! (demo, youtube).
  • CRT TV, makes your game look like on an old television (demo, youtube).
  • Old Films, the best way to replicate the look of old movies (demo, youtube).
  • Spectrum, mimics the legendary ZX Spectrum 8-bits computer from 1982 (demo, youtube).
  • Handheld 8-Bit, imitates the graphics of the 8-bit handheld console Game Boy (demo, youtube).
  • Vintage Filters, a great collection of vintage filters inspired by Instagram effects (demo, youtube).
  • Old Computers, emulates the color palettes of old 8-bit and 16-bit computers (demo, youtube).
  • VHS, mimic VHS as true as possible (demo, youtube).

• Glitches Bundle, digital and analog glitches to increase the realism of your games.

  • Color Blindness, simulates the most common vision defects (demo, youtube).
  • Corrupt Memory, cyber-attacks, hardware failures, etc (demo, youtube).
  • Interferences, simulate video transmission failures (demo, youtube).
  • VHS, accurately emulates an old VHS tape (demo, youtube).
  • Distortions, distortions effects to increase the awesomeness of your games (demo, youtube).
  • Cheap Camera, emulates the defects of cheap cameras with poor quality digital sensors (demo, youtube).
  • Bad GPU, simulates the effects of a broken GPU (demo, youtube).

• LUTs Bundle, the largest collection of LUTs of the entire store.

  • Cyberpunk, apocalyptic future, looking cool (demo, youtube).
  • Vintage, nostalgia for the past (demo, youtube).
  • Anime, vibrant tones, unique contrasts and a cinematic touch (demo, youtube).
  • Synthwave, neon-drenched cyberpunk worlds (demo, youtube).
  • Colors, flood your games with colors (demo, youtube).
  • Places, the right color for the right place (demo, youtube).
  • Cinematic, the color of the movies, in your games (demo, youtube).
  • Fantasy, worlds of fantasy and color (demo, youtube).
  • Unreal, colors from other worlds, stunning looks (demo, youtube).
  • Action, colors for action! (demo, youtube).
  • Horror, the colors of fear… (demo, youtube).
  • Sci-Fi, futuristic and dystopian looks (demo, youtube).

• Sprites Mojo, a collection of 2D effects to add more juice to your games (demo, youtube).

Games published

Powernauts (Android, iOS), Teachlabs, CTO / Lead Game Programmer.

Motorama (Steam), Freedom Factory Studios, CTO / Lead Game Programmer.

Naraba World (PC, Nintendo DS), Freedom Factory Studios, CTO / Lead Game Programmer.

Baobab Planet (PC, Online), Freedom Factory Studios, CTO / Lead Game Programmer.

Brico Party aka Fix It (PC, Wii, Nintendo DS), Freedom Factory Studios, CTO / Lead Game Programmer.

Fritz Chess (PC, Wii, PS3), Freedom Factory Studios, CTO / Lead Game Programmer.

Cycling Evolution aka Radsport Evolution (PC), Freedom Factory Studios, CTO / Lead Game Programmer.

Zed City (PC, Online), Play Wireless, Lead Game Programmer.

Summer / Winter Battle (PC, Online), Bety Byte / Coca Cola, Game programmer and Tools.

Hurakan Condor (PC, Online), Bety Byte / Port Aventura, Coca Cola, Game programmer and Tools.

Acción Rescate (PC), Bety Byte / Bimbo, Game programmer and Tools.

Futbol 11 (PC, Online), Bety Byte / Coca Cola, Game programmer and Tools.

Universal Mediterránea (PC), Bety Byte / Universal Warner Bros, Game programmer and Tools.

Tunnel Of Love (PC, Online), Bety Byte / Coca Cola, Game programmer and Tools.

PC Fútbol 2001 (PC), Dinamic Multimedia, Game programmer and 3DSMax Tools.

Technologies And Tools