Game Development Resources

Engines

  • Unity

    • Great tooling for 2D, 3D development.

    • Good community and good first-party support.

    • Exports to pretty much any platform you can think of (including web)

    • C# scripting - easy if you are familiar with c-inspired languages (c, cpp, java...)

    • Most any modern indie and AAA titles are made with Unity.

    • Requirements vary, dedicated graphics card recommended, but will work on mid to upper lower tier machines if you are patient enough.

    • THE main engine for XR developement.

  • Godot

    • great 2d tooling. 3d tooling is lacking compared to other mainstream engines but is being improved.

    • great community support.

    • Exports to most platforms (console support is a bit iffy)

    • officially supports GDScript (Python like) and c#. Third-Party support is available for a few other languages.

    • Open Source!

    • No jobs (yet)

    • very lightweight. needs a pc that can run atleast 5 chrome tabs (or a flagship smartphone).

    • has XR support

  • Unreal

    • Arguably the best 3D developement pipeline in a mainstream engine. 2D support is meh.

    • Made by a game studio that uses their own engine, so battle-tested by default.

    • good community and first-party support

    • Scripting done visually (Blueprints) or through c++.

    • optimization will take concious effort.

    • if you see a modern indie game with mind-bogglingly realistic graphics, its a safe bet to assume it was made in C#.

    • has decent XR support

    • no web builds in later versions

    • Source Available, NOT Open Source.

  • Many Other Options

  • Or go engineless if you are comfortable with programming custom graphics, physics, audio, networking, input management, and UI Systems.

Engine Specific Resources

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