awesome-game-design

A comprehensive list of Game Design related learning materials, examples and tools.
https://github.com/roobyx/awesome-game-design

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Finished games GDDs:
- Development:
Game Architectural elements
- Postmortems Videos
  - Overwatch - GDC Talk by Timothy Ford about Overwatch's architecture and its ECS usage
Game design tools
- Game Balancing & Systems Design
  - Machinations - Visual design tool for game systems and balancing
- Narrative Design Tools
  - Arrow - Handy, free, open-source tool to design game narrative, develop text-adventures, or create any other kind of nonlinear interactive storytelling document
  - Twine - Open-source tool for interactive, nonlinear stories. Widely used in indie games and education
  - Ink/Inky - Inkle Studios' narrative scripting language, free and open-source, used in games like 80 Days
  - Yarn Spinner - Dialogue system used in Night in the Woods and other narrative-driven games
  - Arcweave - Modern web-based narrative design tool with real-time collaboration features
  - Fungus - Free, open-source visual storytelling tool for Unity
  - StoryPlay - Visual editor for building interactive experiences.
Game development
- Community Resources
  - r/gamedesign Wiki - Curated resources from the Reddit game design community
  - IGDA Resources - International Game Developers Association resource library
  - GameDev.net - Long-running game development community with articles and forums
  - GDC Vault - Archive of Game Developers Conference talks (free and premium content)
  - IGDA Resources - International Game Developers Association resource library
- Game Engines
  - Godot Engine - Popular open-source 2D/3D engine with MIT license, growing rapidly in adoption
  - Defold - Free 2D game engine by King, particularly strong for mobile development
  - LÖVE - Free 2D game framework using Lua, excellent for prototyping
  - Pico-8 - Fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games
- Learning Resources
  - 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development - Comprehensive book on math related to game development (Simply an amazing book about teaching math used in game development in a nice and easy manner) now for Free!
  - COLLISION DETECTION by Jeff Thompson - This book explains the algorithms behind those collisions using basic shapes like circles, rectangles, and lines so you can implement them into your own projects
GDD Creation Tools
- Postmortems Videos
  - Dundoc - Avenge your Game Idea and Plunge into the Future Gaming Portal. Design your game idea the right way
  - Nuclino - A lightweight and collaborative wiki for all your team's knowledge, docs, and notes
  - Affine - Great self-hosted note taking/knowledge base that serves well for GDD creation
  - IMS Creators - Collaborative game design creation tool integrated with project management
Learning materials:
- Development:
  - The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
  - Designer Notes - Soren Johnson's game design podcast and blog
  - A Theory of Fun - Raph Koster's influential book on game design (site with resources)
  - Game Programming Patterns - Free online book by Robert Nystrom covering essential programming patterns for games
  - Game Design Patterns Wiki - Academic collection from Chalmers University of Technology
  - The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
  - Lost Garden - Daniel Cook's influential game design blog with essays and frameworks
  - Asking Gamedevs - Industry Q&A collection from veteran game developers
  - Game Developer Deep Dives - In-depth technical postmortems series
Postmortems:

Programming Languages

TypeScript 1 GDScript 1

Categories

Postmortems: 192 Finished games GDDs: 24 Game development 11 Learning materials: 9 Game design tools 8 GDD Creation Tools 4 Templates and examples: 3 Game Architectural elements 1

Sub Categories

Indie Postmortems 93 AAA Studios Postmortems 73 Development: 38 Classic Game Postmortems (Videos from GDC) 17 Narrative Design Tools 7 Postmortems Videos 6 Community Resources 5 Game Engines 4 Ludum Dare Game Jam Postmortems 4 Learning Resources 2 Special Postmortems 2 Game Balancing & Systems Design 1

Keywords

visual-scripting 1 visual-editor 1 twine-alternative 1 twine 1 story-engine 1 reactflow 1 node-editor 1 narrative-engine 1 interactive-story 1 graph-editor 1 game-editor 1 game-dev-tool 1 decision-tree 1 choice-based-game 1 branching-narrative 1 text-adventure 1 interactive-storytelling 1 interactive-fiction 1 game-narrative 1 game-development 1 game-design 1