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2	2019-10-10	Added links to the Design Tools, Level Design, UI/UX Design, Accessibility, General Game Design, System Design, Unreal Engine 4, Podcasts, Teamwork & Narrative Design sections
3	2019-10-11	Added links: 8x Unreal Engine 4, 1x Unity, 5x General Game Design, 2x Level Design, 3x, Recommended Reading, 2x Podcasts, 1x Teamwork, 1x Design Tools.
4	2019-10-12	Added links: 2x Design Tools, 1x Unreal Engine 4, 4x UI & UX Design, 1x Narrative Design, 2x Level Design.
5	2019-10-16	Added links: 1x Level Design, 9x Recommended Reading, 5x Podcasts.
6	2019-10-28	Added links: 2x Level Design, 1x UX & UI Design, 6x Design Tools, 1x Unreal Engine 4, 1x General Design.
7	2019-10-29	Added links: 3x Design Tools.
8	2019-11-16	Added links: 38x Recommended Reading
9	2020-02-16	Added links: 24x Level Design, 3x General Game Design, 2x Accessibility, 1x Recommended Reading, 1x System Design, 2x Design Tools, 2x UI/UX
10	2020-04-29	Added links: 3x UI & UX Design
11	2020-06-28	Added links: 11x Podcasts
12	2020-07-20	Added links: 5x Accessibility, 4x Unreal Engine 4, [Teamwork changed to Teamwork & Career] 6x Teamwork & Career, 1x General Game Design
13	2020-08-22	Added links: 2x General Game Design. Added new section [Puzzle Design] with 7x links. Added new section [Strategy Game Design] with 11x links. Added new section [Platformer Design] with 10x links.
14	2020-08-27	Added links: 14x System Design
15	2020-10-25	Added links: 19x General Game Design, 1x System Design, 2x UI & UX Design, 8x Level Design, 4x Narrative Design, 1x Design Tools, 2x Unreal Engine 4, 1x Strategy Game Design
16	2021-01-23	Added new section [World Design] with 13x links. (Macro design of game worlds, including world building). Cell 72 from Level Design moved to this section.
17		Added links: 2x UI & UX Design, 5x Level Design, 1x Puzzle Design, 4x Narrative Design, 1x Teamwork & Career.
18	2021-03-18	Added new section [Sound & Music Design] with 32x links.
19	2021-03-23	Added new sections [Esports] with 5x links, [Toxicity] with 10x links. Added 30x links to Narrative Design.
20	2021-04-18	Added new section [Quest Design] with 18x links. Added 20x links to System Design, 3x links to Design Tools.
21	2021-08-22	Added new sections [Pitching & Publishers] with 17x links, [Combat Design] with 24x links, [VR] with 2x links. Added 1x links to General Design, 9x links to Level Design, 8x links to Narrative Design, 5x links to System Design.
22		Added 1x link to Platformer Design, 1x link to World Design, 1x link to Puzzle Design, 1x link to Quest Design, 3x links to Design Tools, 1x link to Unity, 7x links to Teamwork & Career.
23	2021-08-26	Added new sections [Marketing] with 33x links, [QA] with 8x links, [Voiceacting & Mocap] with 10x links. Added 19x links to Accessibility, 9x links to VR, 1x link to Esports.
24	2022-03-29	Added 1x to Level Design, Added 7x to System Design, Added 6x to Combat Design, Added 1x to Teamwork & Career, Added 1x to Narrative Design, Added 9x to Puzzle Design.
25		Added new sections [RPG Design], [AI]. Split up UI and UX & Psychology into two separate sections. Added 10x to RPG Design, Added 19x to AI, Added 12x to UI Design.
26	2023-01-29	Added 2x to Combat Design, 10x to Level Design, 5x to World Design, 27x to UX & Psychology, 3x to VR, 3x to Accessibility, 9x to UI, 2x to Unity, 12x to Sound & Music Design, 6x to Marketing.
27		Added 3x to Puzzle Design, 4x to Teamwork & Career, 2x to Platformer Design, 1x to QA, 2x to Strategy Game Design, 1x to AI, 2x to Recommended Reading, 7x to Narrative, 1x to Voiceacting & Mocap.
28	2023-10-16	Added 14x links to Narrative Design, 1x links to Quest Design, 3x links to Strategy Game Design, 4x links to Sound & Music Design, 3x links to World Design, 1x links to Level Design, 6x links to Marketing,
29		2x links to Combat Design, 1x links to QA, 3x links to UX & Pscyhology, 1x links to VO & Mocap, 2x links to AI, 2x links to General Game Design.
30		I will start marking personal recommendations with ♥, to help people sift through the ever growning list of resources.
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2	The 13 Basic Principles of Gameplay Design	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132341/the_13_basic_principles_of_.php?page=1	General gameplay design
3	Creating A Great Design Document	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131632/creating_a_great_design_document.php	Tips on creating strong documentation for your team and yourself
4	Balancing Multiplayer Games	http://www.sirlin.net/articles/balancing-multiplayer-games-part-1-definitions	How to design and balance multiplayer games
5	Spoiled for choice: The psychology of choice overload in games, and how to avoid it	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/BobTilford/20160810/278859/Spoiled_for_choice_The_psychology_of_choice_overload_in_games_and_how_to_avoid_it.php	Examines how too many choices can be a bad thing, as well as how to avoid it
6	Flaws Of An Undead Genre - What's Wrong With Point & Click Adventures?	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MarcusBumer/20180814/324402/Flaws_Of_An_Undead_Genre__Whats_Wrong_With_Point__Click_Adventures.php	Examines Point & Click adventure issues
7	Effectively Organize Your Game's Development With a Game Design Document	https://code.tutsplus.com/articles/effectively-organize-your-games-development-with-a-game-design-document--active-10140	On how to effectively create a good game design document
8	Magic: the Gathering: Twenty Years, Twenty Lessons Learned	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHHg99hwQGY	♥ Great video with a lot of good game design tips
9	Making Platforming Games	http://subtractivedesign.blogspot.com/2013/02/making-platforming-games.html	Advice on making 2D sidescrolling platformers.
10	Devil May Cry 4 - Designing a Great Boss Fight	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZCZh5cb6s	Analysis of the boss Credo from Devil May Cry 4 and how you it can allow you to design better boss battles.
11	GDC 2004 - Would the Real Emergent Gameplay Please Stand Up?	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLVceaULKLU	Good talk on how you can create emergent gameplay
12	Indie Game Business	https://www.twitch.tv/indiegamebusiness/videos	Channel dedicated to helping (new) indie studios learn what they need to know for success
13	Tim Cain - Building a Better RPG: 7 Mistakes to Avoid	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEewLWDpscA	Tim Cain (creator of Fallout) goes over lessons he's learned over the years from working on RPGs.
14	ZACH-LIKE	https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098840/ZACHLIKE/	Check out Zachtronics’ (creator of Spacechem, Infinifactory and Opus Magnum) Design Documents and unreleased games for free.
15	Gamasutra Deep Dive series	https://gamasutra.com/deepdives	Ongoing series with the goal of shedding light on specific design, art, or technical features within a video game.
16	Anatomy of Quests in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5TH9KakBDw
17	Dirty Bomb official design document	http://db-design.splashdamage.com.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dirty_bomb-game_design_document.pdf	♥
18	Communication and Game Design Documents	http://acagamic.com/game-design-course/communication-and-game-design-documents/
19	GDC - 50 Game Camera Mistakes	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7307qRmlMI
20	How Cameras in Side-Scrollers Work	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdvCO97jOQk
21	Guide to Making Metroidvania Style Games: Part 1	http://subtractivedesign.blogspot.com/2013/01/guide-to-making-metroidvania-style.html	Kynan Pearson also has worthwhile posts on his blog
22	Guide to Making Metroidvania Style Games: Part 2	http://subtractivedesign.blogspot.com/2013/01/guide-to-making-metroidvania-style_16.html
23	Charting Through Pacing of Uncharted 2. Part 1 - Pacing Principles	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/StanislavCostiuc/20190625/345414/Charting_Through_Pacing_of_Uncharted_2_Part_1__Pacing_Principles.php
24	Charting Through Pacing of Uncharted 2. Part 2 - Narrative Techniques	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/StanislavCostiuc/20190701/345850/Charting_Through_Pacing_of_Uncharted_2_Part_2__Narrative_Techniques.php
25	Amplify Your Game Camera - Camera Design	https://medium.com/cg-cookie/amplify-your-game-camera-a9fb4e56570c
26	Beginner balance versus pro balance	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JoostVanDongen/20190819/348966/Beginner_balance_versus_pro_balance.php
27	Dev breakdown of how the exploration was done in God of War (2018)	https://blog.playstation.com/2018/12/05/how-santa-monica-studios-nailed-exploration-in-god-of-war/	Quest design
28	Fighting Game Design w. Dan Fornace: The Power of Silhouettes	https://medium.com/@fornace/fighting-game-design-with-dan-fornace-the-power-of-silhouettes-915fde48318f
29	Mike Stout's blog	http://www.ongamedesign.net/	Has several good posts on various kinds of design
30	Economy Balancing Models	http://www.chaoticstupid.com/economy-balancing-models/	From Mike Stout's other blog, has several good posts on game design
31	Reward Schedules	http://www.chaoticstupid.com/reward-schedules/
32	Enemy Attacks and Telegraphing	http://www.chaoticstupid.com/enemy-attacks-and-telegraphing/
33	Telegraphs 2: Post-attack vulnerability	http://www.chaoticstupid.com/telegraphs-2-post-attack-vulnerability/
34	Changing Player Behavior	http://www.chaoticstupid.com/changing-player-behavior/
35	Boss Battle Design and Structure - by Mike Stout	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/134503/boss_battle_design_and_structure.php
36	Preparation, Strategy, Tactics, and Action: Phases of Challenge	https://pixelpoppers.com/2018/07/phases-of-challenge/
37	Lost Garden	https://lostgarden.home.blog/	Collection of essays on game design theory, art and the business of design
38	Loopholes in Game Design	http://devmag.org.za/2012/05/07/loopholes-in-game-design/
39	Soren Johnson's Game Design Journal	http://www.designer-notes.com/?page_id=638	Several articles on game design
40	Design Is How It Works: Engineering For Designers \| William Besnard Vile Monarch	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cpsoL_b8uI	Techniques used by engineers in industries to be more precise, factual, and to avoid fallacies and biases that come with having to design anything
41	Three methods to use to get better gameplay faster	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTZieB1vJ5Y
42	Focusing on Player Fantasy: What is Means and How to Use It	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQV_CuBy8EI
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2	The Art and Science of Pacing and Sequencing Combat Encounters	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/TravisHoffstetter/20130210/186364/The_Art_and_Science_of_Pacing_and_Sequencing_Combat_Encounters.php	How to pace and design a combat encounter
3	Anatomy of a Combat Zone	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132469/anatomy_of_a_combat_zone.php	Concept of combat zones
4	The Anatomy of a Stealth Encounter	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/TravisHoffstetter/20180719/322423/The_Anatomy_of_a_Stealth_Encounter.php	Stealth encounter design
5	The Importance of Nothing: Using Negative Space in Level Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ99gAb4T0o	Importance of negative space in level design
6	Level Design Guidelines	http://www.mikebarclay.co.uk/my-level-design-guidelines/	Bunch of tips on level design by a professional LD
7	Multiplayer Map Theory (Gears of War)	https://docs.unrealengine.com/udk/Three/GearsMultiplayerMapTheory.html	How EpicGames designed Gear of War multiplayer levels
8	Level Design: Views and Vistas	https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/articles/level-design-views-and-vistas--cms-25036	How to effectively use views and vistas in LD and why they are important
9	A Beginner's Guide to Designing Video Game Levels	https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/a-beginners-guide-to-designing-video-game-levels--cms-25662	Very good example of the design process of a level
10	Guide on creating and using top-down maps	https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1119013915755782144.html	Professional LD shows off their process for creating and using top-down maps, using "Inkscape"
11	Single Player Level Design Pacing and Gameplay Beats	https://worldofleveldesign.com/categories/wold-members-tutorials/peteellis/level-design-pacing-gameplay-beats-part1.php	Designing Singleplayer levels
12	Trello Level Design compendium	https://trello.com/b/AM3ZOmAd/level-design-compendium	♥Contains a lot of links on Level Design
13	Level Design Tips and Tricks	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/TomPugh/20181022/329044/Level_Design_Tips_and_Tricks.php	Some best practices
14	Level Design Papermaps	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR7AfLt1vYk&list=PL0GHpYtoYaLIA3xjjYNNi0iC-1QYguLY3&index=2&t=0s	Youtube series on top down maps
15	Creating Horror through Level Design	https://jaredemitchell.com/articles/creating-horror-through-level-design/	Horror level design
16	Level Design - Puzzle Design	https://www.slideshare.net/sjsivak/game-14460742	Puzzle level design
17	Portal 2 Level Design: From Initial Idea to Finished Level	https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/portal-2-level-design-from-initial-idea-to-finished-level--gamedev-5321	Portal 2 puzzle level design process
18	Portal 2 Level Design: Creating Puzzles to Challenge Your Players	https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/portal-2-level-design-creating-puzzles-to-challenge-your-players--gamedev-4828	Portal 2's puzzle design
19	The Importance of Definitions in Game Design	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LouisMcTague/20190617/344786/The_Importance_of_Definitions_in_Game_Design.php	How defining design in the outset helps several LD's more effectively work together
20	Composition in Level Design	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MateuszPiaskiewicz/20140817/223513/Composition_in_Level_Design.php	The importance of composition in level design and how to do it
21	Level Design Workshop: The Illusion of Choice	https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1023552/Level-Design-Workshop-The-Illusion	How and when to create the illusion of choice for players in level design
22	Practical Guide on First Person Level Design	https://medium.com/ironequal/practical-guide-on-first-person-level-design-e187e45c744c	Comprehensive guide on how to design FPS levels
23	The Door Problem of Combat Design	https://andrewyoderdesign.blog/2019/08/04/the-door-problem-of-combat-design/	How to design inviting combat spaces
24	Level Design Visual Guides	http://bobbyross.com/collections	Several great visual guides on how to design levels
25	Multiplayer Level Design Guide	http://www.nextleveldesign.org/index.php?/content/articles/multiplayer-level-design-guide-patrick-pjw-williams-r145/	Leaning more into arena shooter level design
26	Level Design Workshop: Blockmesh and Lighting Tips	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09r1B9cVEQY	Tips on how to block out your levels and light them properly
27	Level Design Workshop: Blockmesh and Lighting Tips EXTENDED	http://www.davidshaver.net/DShaver_Invisible_Intuition_DirectorsCut.pdf	The extended version of the presentation above ("Level Design Workshop: Blockmesh and Lighting Tips"). Covers what he didn't have time for.
28	Radial Level Design (Archived)	https://web.archive.org/web/20191026213725/https://jfgnord.wordpress.com/2017/05/	How to design cities using 'radial design' (original site is no longer online, but it can be accessed through web archive)
29	Playgrounds & Level Design	https://andrewyoderdesign.blog/2019/03/25/playgrounds-level-design/	How to apply the idea of a playground in level design
30	Notes on Welcoming Spaces in Games	https://andrewyoderdesign.blog/2019/04/11/notes-on-welcoming-spaces-in-games/	How to design areas players want to enter
31	Designing Highly Replayable Stealth Levels for Payday 2	https://www.mapcore.org/articles/development/designing-highly-replayable-stealth-levels-for-payday-2-r102/	Replayable stealth levels
32	Architecture in Video Games: Designing for Impact	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DeannaVanBuren/20151012/254238/Architecture_in_Video_Games_Designing_for_Impact.php	Architectural level design
33	Level Design: Rational Game Design	http://slideplayer.com/slide/12246767/	Presentation on Ubisoft's way of managing difficulty curves in level design
34	Maverick (Youtube user)	https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgmX4icpN3HnOOwYtmyYz2w/videos	Posts speed level design videos. Focused more on the artistic side, but can be useful as it deals with things like composition & making good looking scenes.
35	An Approach to Holistic Level Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpOoTAVeEcU	A good video on how to combine gameplay, presentation and narrative in level design.
36	Finding your own path as a professional Level Designer	https://www.mapcore.org/articles/interviews/finding-your-own-path-as-a-professional-level-designer-r92/	Article based on interviews with professional LDs on how to chart your career path
37	Creating a Single-Player Combat Space	https://www.mapcore.org/articles/development/creating-a-single-player-combat-space-r80/	Several part article on how to effectively create good combat spaces
38	Lighting Design for Level Designers	https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1016450/Lighting-Design-for-Level	Focus on improving the knowledge of lighting for level designers so they can design better levels and work better together with enviro artists.
39	Level Design Inspiration Machine	https://leveldesigninspirationmachine.tumblr.com/	A tumblr dedicated to inspirational level design images
40	Designing Better Levels Through Human Survival Instincts	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6411/designing_better_levels_through_.php	Looks at how we can use human psychology and survival instincts to create better levels.
41	Map Design Theory - Insane54 & Mick Raider	https://www.nextleveldesign.org/index.php?/content/articles/map-design-theory-insane54-mick-raider-r164/	Rudimentary level design theory, but with examples from Halo 3
42	Competitive Design Guide	https://www.nextleveldesign.org/index.php?/content/articles/competitive-design-guide-joel-wviperw-mcdonald-r39/	Writeup on designing levels for competitive games
43	Level Progress Diagrams	https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/100569-level-progress-diagrams-%E2%80%93-requiem/	Writeup on level progression diagrams
44	Ten Principles of Good Level Design (Part 1)	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DanTaylor/20130929/196791/Ten_Principles_of_Good_Level_Design_Part_1.php
45	Ten Principles of Good Level Design (Part 2)	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DanTaylor/20131006/197209/Ten_Principles_of_Good_Level_Design_Part_2.php
46	Designing FPS Multiplayer Maps - Part 1	http://www.ongamedesign.net/designing-fps-multiplayer-maps-part-1/
47	Designing FPS Multiplayer Maps - Part 2	http://www.ongamedesign.net/designing-fps-multiplayer-maps-part-2/
48	Spatial Considerations of Architecture Theory	https://www.nextleveldesign.org/index.php?/content/articles/how-have-level-designers-adopted-the-spatial-considerations-of-architecture-theory-charlie-tancock-r214/
49	Deathmatch Map Design: The Architecture of Flow	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/195069/deathmatch_map_design_the_.php
50	How Level Flow Works In Uncharted 4 And The Last Of Us	https://www.nextleveldesign.org/index.php?/content/articles/how-level-flow-works-in-uncharted-4-and-the-last-of-us-trinh-nguyen-r221/
51	Titanfall 2: How Design Informs Speed	https://www.nextleveldesign.org/index.php?/content/articles/titanfall-2-how-design-informs-speed-abhishek-iyer-r236/
52	Sharing Accessible Narratives Through Environmental Design	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/SukhrajJohal/20191209/355337/Writings_on_the_Wall_Sharing_Accessible_Narratives_Through_Environmental_Design.php
53	On Level Design: A Macro Map design and some Ecology!	https://kayin.moe/?p=494
54	Level Design for Combat - Max Pears	https://www.nextleveldesign.org/index.php?/content/nld-originals/level-design-for-combat-max-pears-r127/
55	Level Design for Combat: Part 2 - Max Pears	https://www.nextleveldesign.org/index.php?/content/nld-originals/level-design-for-combat-part-2-max-pears-r163/
56	Level Design for Combat: Part 3 - Max Pears	https://www.nextleveldesign.org/index.php?/content/nld-originals/level-design-for-combat-part-3-max-pears-r229/
57	Action Adventure Level Design, Part 1	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4326/action_adventure_level_design_.php
58	Action Adventure Level Design, Part 2	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4413/action_adventure_level_design_.php
59	Action Adventure Level Design, Part 3	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/5441/action_adventure_level_design_.php
60	Level Design in Battlefield 1	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwjU8okQWvc	By Lead/Senior Level Designer at DICE
61	Level Design Compendium	https://trello.com/b/AM3ZOmAd/level-design-compendium	♥Another collection of useful Level Design content
62	How to handle cover placement	https://medium.com/@iuliu.cosmin.oniscu/how-to-handle-cover-placement-d10580faac66
63	Articulate a visual language system in a level design environment	https://medium.com/@iuliu.cosmin.oniscu/how-to-articulate-a-visual-language-system-in-a-level-design-environment-17fecbcbede9
64	Linear/Multi-path/Open-world	https://medium.com/@iuliu.cosmin.oniscu/linear-multi-path-open-world-level-design-7ef6a6831a05
65	Multiplayer Level Design In-Depth - by Pascal Luban - Part 1	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/130212/multiplayer_level_design_indepth_.php
66	Multiplayer Level Design In-Depth - by Pascal Luban - Part 2	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/130202/multiplayer_level_design_indepth_.php
67	Multiplayer Level Design In-Depth - by Pascal Luban - Part 3	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/130192/multiplayer_level_design_indepth_.php
68	Joel Burgess - Motivating players in Open World games	https://www.slideshare.net/JoelBurgess/gdc2011-motivating-players-in-open-worlds	Slides
69	Joel Burgess - Motivating players in Open World games	http://blog.joelburgess.com/2011/03/gdc-2011-transcript-motivating-players.html#more	Transcript
70	Joel Burgess - Motivating players in Open World games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOK0Bb58dEk	Follow-up talk
71	Freedom as the Cornerstone for Open World Mission Design	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4317/embracing_the_chaos_freedom_as_.php
72	Map drawing tutorials to help you draw better top-down maps	http://vulpinoid.blogspot.com/p/map-tutorials.html
73	Brian Upton: Designing Noninteractive Play Spaces	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCdHafkzAY4	Environmental storytelling, etc.
74	Interesting series of videos on interior design (Playlist)	https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz92k7gg9AcYHbvRJf1JD1sFcnE-xlmd2	Touches on psychology and perception. Useful for level design or to evoke certain emotions.
75	Dev breakdown God of War (2018) exploration implementation	https://blog.playstation.com/2018/12/05/how-santa-monica-studios-nailed-exploration-in-god-of-war/
76	Architectural theory for level designers - Chris Totten	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuKkrfHDHeM
77	Level design of God of War	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSB29qx6sWw
78	Level design cover 101	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUw_7Hk6SmQ
79	Level design Designing Celeste	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RlpMhBKNr0
80	Level Design Workshop: Building New York in Marvel's Spider-Man	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bix1nLgneR4
81	A City of a Thousand Choices: Prague City Hub in 'Deus Ex Mankind Divided' - Sylvain Douce	https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1024003/A-City-of-a-Thousand
82	Hitman Levels as Social Spaces: The Social Anthropology of Level Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpRJuinc9AM
83	The Making Of: Dust 2 - Dave Johnston	https://www.johnsto.co.uk/design/making-dust2/
84	Traversal Level Design	https://www.makinggames.biz/feature/traversal-level-design,11006.html
85	Creating Satisfying Combat Experiences at Insomniac Games	https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014376/Creating-Satisfying-Combat-Experiences-at
86	Silent Narratives: Designing Through the Eyes of an NPC - Len de Gracia, CD Projekt RED	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC8B8gh0UH8
87	Hand-Crafted Variance: Designing Hades' Underworld	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv_vUa7bxks
88	Challenging the player through level design - Parkour in Dying Light 2: Stay Human	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE3VWaX8JY8
89	Level Design and Game Architecture – Environmental Storytelling	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1CTweZvsQ0
90	Environmental Storytelling - Immersive Design Summit	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efrwChSdx_o
91	The Level Design of Fall Guys	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz2bw9ECFaU
92	Secrets of the Sages: MP Level Design	https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/secrets-of-the-sages-level-design
93	Diablo Dungeon Design ft. Ed Hanes	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUFvhDOPA_w
94	Crafting the World of Ori and the Will of the Wisps	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ro4GqEZIPY
95	Basics of Classic FPS Combat Encounter Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB4JMy9OjKk
96	The Basics of Level Art & Level Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfyPRIrCozk
97	One-Liners: Maintaining Variety in Open-World Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5XME4GlTU4
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2	How to Choose a Theme for Your Game	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_sear6P058	Short video on how to define the theme of your game
3	The 7 Types of Short Story Opening, and How to Decide Which is Right for Your Story	https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-7-types-of-short-story-opening-and-how-to-decide-w-5814687	7 different story openings, why they might fit your game and examples.
4	Designing For Ludonarrative Harmony	https://www.academia.edu/34283487/Designing_For_Ludonarrative_Harmony	A study on how to design for game narrative harmony (so the gameplay and narrative don't clash)
5	Narrative design resources	http://tom-jubert.blogspot.com/p/narrative-design-resources.html	Short list of narrative design & writing resources suggested by Tom Jubert
6	Games As Literature	https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvaUR_-uJQcu1-c4UfUtEmQ	Channel dedicated to narrative design content
7	Narrative Design, the case of “Horizon Zero Dawn”	https://www.slideshare.net/nzagalo/narrative-design-the-case-of-horizon-zero-dawn	Presentation of the narrative design of Horizon: Zero Dawn
8	A Practical Guide to Game Writing	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6171/a_practical_guide_to_game_writing.php	Good tips on how to write and design a game's narrative, as well as how it supports the production
9	Worldbuilding: the Master Guide	https://blog.reedsy.com/worldbuilding-guide/	Tips on worldbuilding
10	Devs weigh in on the best ways to write and design characters	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/322070/Devs_weigh_in_on_the_best_ways_to_write_and_design_characters.php	Several notable game devs talk about how to best write and design characters
11	The Uneasy Merging of Narrative and Gameplay	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132641/the_uneasy_merging_of_narrative_.php	On the topic of merging narrative with gameplay
12	Human values in game design - an approach for designing emergent storytelling	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JakubStokalski/20181213/332891/Human_values_in_game_design__an_approach_for_designing_emergent_storytelling.php	Talks about emergent storytelling.
13	Self-Training in Narrative Design	https://emshort.blog/2019/01/08/mailbag-self-training-in-narrative-design/	Useful stuff for narrative designers seeking to improve
14	How games are written	https://www.vice.com/en/article/akwk9z/spider-man-developers-want-more-people-to-know-how-games-are-written
15	How to Write a Screenplay or Tell a Better Story	https://byrslf.co/how-to-write-a-screenplay-or-tell-a-better-story-e91b3a2f9bfb	Film School in nine minutes
16	Katarina Gyllenbäck articles on Narrative Design	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/author/KatarinaGyllenback/932286/blogs/page=1	On Gamasutra
17	Katarina Gyllenbäck articles on Narrative Design	https://katarinagyllenback.com/	On her homepage
18	Everything Tells a Story with Hangar 13's Haden Blackman	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbOFzhPX498
19	The System Behind Hades' Dialogue & Narrative	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwdYL0KFA_U
20	Building Non-linear Narratives in 'Horizon: Zero Dawn'	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykPZcG8_mPU
21	Creating a narrative focused mission design document: A Last of Us example	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MichaelHow/20190823/343703/Creating_a_Narrative_Focused_Mission_Design_Document__Last_of_Us_Example.php	By Michael How
22	The Art of World Building - Clara Fernandez-Vara	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBpYXgdsRRA
23	How to Write Realistic Dialogue in Games - - Amanda Gardner	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpEjinGGD44
24	Double Game Narrative - Jousé Monchan	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORdLojIdjrA	General narrative design talk
25	Reflections on Narrative Design - Brooke Maggs	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yPTs0h8Mwg
26	The Life of a Game Story - Anna Megill & Annie Reid	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_K2J6oCDMY
27	Playlist of writing lectures by Brandon Sanderson	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6HOdHEeosc&list=PLSH_xM-KC3Zv-79sVZTTj-YA6IAqh8qeQ&index=2
28	Sparkling Dialogue: A Masterclass - Jon Ingold	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vRfNtvFVRo
29	Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games	https://heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/standard-patterns-in-choice-based-games/
30	How to Build Characters Through Systemic Interaction	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVvkFZq3mqc
31	Stories To Go: Narrative Design for Mobile Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee3QJkAie2s
32	The Changing Face of Game Narratives	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-ghnkx1ph0
33	Narrative Design Principles - Jared Rosen	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xEzVaeYUc8
34	How to Write a Screenplay or Tell a Better Story	https://byrslf.co/how-to-write-a-screenplay-or-tell-a-better-story-e91b3a2f9bfb	Film School in nine minutes'
35	Narrative System Design Basics - Leszek Szczepanski	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPb-eZJL9v4
36	Character Development in Non-Linear Spaces: 'Uncharted: The Lost Legacy'	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoQ6WszwaOU
37	Balancing Storytelling & Design for AAA Video Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyFUdRpYX1k	by Cory Barlog
38	How to Write Comedy - Graham Clark	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubR5ZwitaBc
39	How 1968 Shaped the Characters and World of Mafia III	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj7RlnRMcBw
40	Bringing the Characters of The Outer Worlds to Life (Panel)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrSxwgj2D5w
41	Stories without Stories: The Zen of Strategy Narrative	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JASBqKHcqeY
42	Narrative in Games - the Challenge versus the Expectation	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2-6Bvj_C3U	by David Gaider
43	Revealing the Character's Ghost - Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoT1KNKKeRw
44	Crafting Comedic Moments in Video Games - Leif Oleson-Cormack	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xgf0mi81yM
45	Narrative in Games - Stories Untold	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSdCTynAwoY
46	Story Structure for Level Loaders and Game Devs	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcBb7HHkaB8
47	Designing For Narrative Emotions - Dave Pimm	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=660dz8nlcWk
48	Even Storyless Games Have Some Stories To Tell - Patryk Greszczuk	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK-kX8c3zmQ
49	How to build a game story like a chef - Susan O'Connor	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HX4QRuDVwM
50	Narrative design in an age of dissatisfaction - Leigh Alexander	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF7aFQZZQqw
51	Narrative Structures For Better Game Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyOQ6cOG0Ew
52	Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games	https://heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/standard-patterns-in-choice-based-games/
53	Technical Tools for Authoring Branching Dialogue	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRHl2PLKwfY
54	Dynamic Stories for Dynamic Games: Six Ways to Give Each Player a Unique Narrative	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsSh62mSPZE
55	Next Gen Storytelling - Meriç Eryürek	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNmtvGnEosg
56	Character Trees	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoH82EuXfjg	A technique used to create characters
57	Writing & Narrative Design: A Relationship - Molly Maloney & Eric Stirpe	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HeXxciH1sg
58	Delightful Dilemmas: Writing For Choice-Based Narratives - Charlene Putney	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX0cuILjcRE
59	Storylets: You Want Them	https://emshort.blog/2019/11/29/storylets-you-want-them/	A way of organizing narrative content with more flexibility than the typical branching narrative
60	Evolving Storytelling of Returnal - How to Craft a Haunting Story	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LxK78vx8bs
61	Humor–the Secret Ingredient Your Game Can’t Do Without!	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTv839qOCjY
62	The Words Are The Same: Writing Games Versus Writing Fiction	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRNsV3KiqOk
63	Lore 101: Fantasy Cultures and Practicality	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEbeDCnDeEw
64	Thinking Beyond Story: Interaction as Narrative	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp0DlUMeUH8
65	Narrative Pipelines-From Conception to Release & Beyond	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PecBBZr91r0
66	Visual Storytelling in Modern Videogames	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJGl7sLHp64
67	Procedural Storytelling in Weird West	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8SSZE3bLtQ
68	Children of Morta: Storytelling in an ever-changing world	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AED9o2o1TJk
69	Narrative Through Gameplay	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnYQmumyFXI
70	Narrative Design for everyone	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u-MFcmIrM8
71	Show dont tell - the nonverbal narrative	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWFfBO9osgY
72	Ethics of Sentient AI The Dilemmas of Delamain in Cyberpunk 2077	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-LnNvYyRQ0
73	Constructing characters for The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 - Paweł Sasko	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZR12bWbHCI
74	There are 100 Stories in the Naked City - Storytelling in Battle Royales	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2auGAi8lKeY
75	Trust, Lust and UST - Writing Effective Romance in Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-OAlclK0tY
76	The Narrative Design Survival Guide	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3CNpoE3AtY
77	Emergent narrative through arduous mechanics in P&P RPGs	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTHs5kNP1-M
78	Cut to the Chase Writing for Cinematics in Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hsXUGllyqI
79	The Life of a Game Story - Anna Megill & Annie Reid	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_K2J6oCDMY
80	I've got to See a Man about a Unicorn The Myth of Open-World Story	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot7pIsu39Gc
81	Story, Characters & Worlds - A Compact Masterclass	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by7e7UcucMc
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2	GameDesign Math: RPG Level-based Progression	https://www.davideaversa.it/2018/02/gamedesign-math-rpg-level-based-progression/	The math behind XP based leveling
3	Randomness in Games: A Long-form Analysis	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNs8aB0huoc	♥
4	Save Game Systems	http://www.sirlin.net/articles/save-game-systems
5	Designing Defensively: Guilty Gear	http://www.sirlin.net/articles/designing-defensively-guilty-gear
6	Game Balance and Yomi	http://www.sirlin.net/articles/game-balance-and-yomi
7	Subtractive Design	http://www.sirlin.net/articles/subtractive-design
8	Seeing Whole Systems \| Nicky Case	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCwtsK_FhUw
9	Solvability	http://www.sirlin.net/articles/solvability
10	Balancing Multiplayer Games	http://www.sirlin.net/articles/balancing-multiplayer-games-part-1-definitions
11	Game Design Case Studies - One Designer \| One Game \| One System	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UdVNmbIClM
12	Ranking Systems 01 - What is Skill	https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/ranking-system-1-what-is-skill/
13	Ranking Systems 02 - The Elo Rating System	https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/ranking-system-2-elo-rating-system/
14	Game System Dynamics	http://acagamic.com/game-design-course/game-system-dynamics/
15	The formal systems of games and game design atoms	http://acagamic.com/game-design-course/the-formal-systems-of-games-and-game-design-atoms/
16	The Limitations of Leveling Systems in Game Design	https://game-wisdom.com/critical/leveling-systems-videogames
17	A Systemic Approach to Systemic Design - Mike Sellers	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR8EmTyJz9A
18	The Craft of Game Systems: General Guidelines - By Daniel Achterman	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/128271/The_Craft_of_Game_Systems_General_Guidelines.php
19	A Peek Inside the System Designer's Toolkit - Squirrel Eiserloh	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW-T-wTQ2-w
20	The Human Side Of System Design - Tamara Popovic	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esK8gMKMTII
21	Designing Core Loops	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj5Mzw8QB2E
22	Pillars of Eternity and Proper Attribute Tuning	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvyrEhAMUPo
23	Skill, Matchmaking, and Ranking Systems Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pglxege-gU
24	Three Statistical Tests Every Game Developer Should Know	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl9V0U2SGeI
25	Economy in EVE	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2hsqEvPGWQ
26	Reward Schedules	http://www.chaoticstupid.com/reward-schedules/
27	Loopholes in Game Design	http://devmag.org.za/2012/05/07/loopholes-in-game-design/
28	The Craft of Game Systems: General Guidelines	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/128271/The_Craft_of_Game_Systems_General_Guidelines.php
29	The Sweet Spot of Asymmetric Design - Creative Assembly	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXk8ipUTx24
30	Systems Are Everywhere - Aleissia Laidacker	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gelpn4mksXQ
31	Systemic Game Design for Tabletop Games - Mike Sellers	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNIq02121MU
32	A Total War: Three Kingdoms Campaign Balancing Post-Mortem	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCSGUzsrcJM
33	Witchcraft: The Alchemy of a Crafting-Based Economy	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMXeaOu8VVY
34	How Systems Will Save Us All (Systemic design)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8w1ScEulfU
35	Algorithm Design Basics for Game Designers	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlMXWpvgNkg
36	Thinking in Systems	http://gangles.ca/2018/07/09/thinking-in-systems/
37	Design a Fun and Sustainable Game Economy	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSgIQSLRwtQ
38	Game design tools - Daniel Cook	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwPe3OHR04c
39	Progression Systems and Empowerment \| Design Workshop	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFD_W51vPj8
40	Roguelike Progression Systems	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOfgUFx9RkU
41	Designing Difficulty Progression Using a Procedural Enemy System	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkaN4TH8dgI
42	Creating a Casual Game Progression Curve	https://room8studio.com/blog/games/creating-a-casual-game-progression-curve/
43	Gamedev Economy Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75R0ezHWX_4
44	Keys to Economic Systems	https://gdkeys.com/keys-to-economic-systems/	Economy design
45	Balancing the Economy for Albion Online	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX8f1lE09uY	Economy design
46	How to Reduce In-Game Inflation by Monitoring Your Economic Systems	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T55AXQEUybA	Economy design
47	Economy Balancing Models	http://www.chaoticstupid.com/economy-balancing-models/	Economy design
48	Balancing in Rainbow Six Siege	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZn0hpXnYgs
49	Keys to Meaningful Skill Trees	https://gdkeys.com/keys-to-meaningful-skill-trees/
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2	Level Design Patterns in 2D Games	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AhmedKhalifa/20190610/344344/Level_Design_Patterns_in_2D_Games.php
3	11 Tips for making a fun platformer	http://devmag.org.za/2011/01/18/11-tips-for-making-a-fun-platformer/
4	13 More Tips for Making a Fun Platformer	http://devmag.org.za/2012/07/19/13-more-tips-for-making-a-fun-platformer/
5	How to design levels for a platformer	http://devmag.org.za/2011/07/04/how-to-design-levels-for-a-platformer/
6	Making Platforming Games - Kynan Pearson	http://subtractivedesign.blogspot.com/2013/02/making-platforming-games.html
7	The guide to implementing 2D platformers	http://higherorderfun.com/blog/2012/05/20/the-guide-to-implementing-2d-platformers/
8	Platforming Games 101: Running, Jumping & More	http://www.racketboy.com/retro/platforming-games-101-all-you-need-to-know
9	Super Mario Bros 3 Level Design Lessons, Part 1	http://www.significant-bits.com/super-mario-bros-3-level-design-lessons/
10	Super Mario Bros 3 Level Design Lessons, Part 2	http://www.significant-bits.com/super-mario-bros-3-level-design-lessons-part-2/
11	Super Mario Bros 3 Level Design Lessons, Part 3	http://www.significant-bits.com/super-mario-bros-3-level-design-lessons-part-3/
12	The Platformer Primer	http://mrbossdesign.blogspot.com/2008/10/platformer-primer.html
13	Platformers toolkit	https://gmtk.itch.io/platformer-toolkit	Interactive learning tool for basics of platforming
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2	City-Building crash-course	https://citybuildingcrashcourse.wordpress.com/	♥A crash-course for world-builders on cities and architecture
3	Guide to the Creation and Depiction of Fantasy Cities	https://www.cartographersguild.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=83308&d=1462281795	By The Cartographers' Guild - Basically how to build old real world cities
4	Lengthy List of Different Architectural Styles	https://historyplex.com/different-architectural-styles
5	World Building with Architecture	https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025311/World-Building-with
6	New Bordeaux − World Building the City of Mafia 3	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzTZvVy9RlQ	♥Mafia III's Nathan Cheever (Lead World Designer) and Petr Zavesky (Lead Architect) share the history, process, and challenges creating New Bordeaux, their fictional version of New Orleans.
7	Building Beauclair in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vEfH9SJ9mY
8	Atmospheric science	https://mythcreants.com/blog/how-to-color-your-map-using-science/
9	Plate tectonics - the wilson cycle, Erosion and transport, Types of rock, Basic climate geography and how this matters for world building	https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/1atjp8/i_think_yall_guys_could_profit_from_a_little/
10	Gelogical world building	https://mythcreants.com/blog/crafting-plausible-maps/
11	Historical maps of cities of the world	http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/
12	Long list of World Building resources	https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/wiki/reading_list
13	Collection of videos going through flora, fauna, space, climates, etc	https://www.youtube.com/c/Artifexian/playlists
14	Principles of castle design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJkXRDKdAcM
15	Lessons in Open World Design: A Ghost Recon Story	https://medium.com/super-jump/lessons-in-open-world-design-a-ghost-recon-story-3f9658987acc	by Jean-Baptiste Oger (Lead Game Designer at Ubisoft Paris)
16	Building the Oldest House in Control / Stuart Macdonald (Remedy Entertainment)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06mA3oSV2Q
17	Cities in games. How to create believable urban environment	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7o4e_e1JbM
18	World Building pipeline of Dying Light 2	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksViCy1Yi8I
19	Urban Design and the Creation of Videogame Cities	https://medium.com/@KonstantinosD/urban-design-and-the-creation-of-videogame-cities-f56449f74d7f
20	Designing Virtual Worlds with Richard Bartle	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dK95Q2kQpg
21	Creating Worlds through Design Thinking	https://gdcvault.com/play/1021752/	Talk on how to create familiar but unique environments, creatures, objects, etc.
22	Cities in games. How to create believable urban environment	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7o4e_e1JbM
23	Is there an Open World Designer on board?	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Usl5uArSdU
24	Building Better Towns for Open World Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r98OeNwdjC0
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2	Viewer-centric design for eSports and interactive game streams	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YNTwCg4aAA	by Christpher Hamilton
3	Women in eSports - Womenize! Games and Tech Cologne	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V6fXBIj3es
4	Interactive Livestreaming and the Future of Esports	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xop4LHBmW2I
5	Esports Insider	https://www.youtube.com/c/EsportsInsider/videos	Esports Insider is a channel for esports business news, insights, events, podcasts, and consultancy.
6	StarCraft II's Game Design: How to Build an eSport	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIv5UgCbDho
7	What makes an esport? Teamfight Tactics' worthiness as a competitive game	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7T0_uW8CCE
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2	How To Combat Toxic Player Behaviour - Control Conference 2015	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0alufOTlj8E
3	Play Nice: the Science and Behavior of Online Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbYQ0AVVBGU
4	The Rage of the Quitter panel - PAX West 2017	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f42Hnpmjd30
5	Losing in Multiplayer Games - PAX Australia	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycvbOjRTX5A
6	How to Mitigate Abuse and Cultivate Communities	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHCOF0K4uI8	by Gabriella Lowgren
7	Overview of the Fair Play Alliance’s Work and Positive Systems in Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyRfP1t9jgo
8	Recognizing & Rewarding Teamwork - Kam Fung (Riot Games)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B5B5qc5q4s
9	Exploring Toxicity in Games (Panel) - Game UX Summit ’17	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXlvybUzD_s
10	Reducing Toxicity in Games - Ben Lewis-Evans (Epic Games)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMYoCuZ3Fa8
11	Hate Speech in Digital Games - Sonja Gabriel	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um2aRzKPYXU
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2	Defence Against the Dark Arts: An Intro to Games Marketing – Lauren Clinnick	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXLlIyg0KYU
3	The 0 $ marketing game plan - Victoria Tran	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJZpMFczNKk
4	Your Game is Not Amazing If Nobody Sees It	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbEDmI7wUV0
5	Promoting Your Game With Your Wallet And Sanity Intact	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Nd7yzuWu8
6	Stick to Your Guns. Dicovery problems - Pavel Šebor	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzXDSjd8BT4
7	What Scuttled Brigador's Launch? - Hugh Monahan	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdPWKDYfPE8
8	25 Tips For Video Game PR - Audra Mclver	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWrwVB90FoA
9	Meme Marketing: How To Drive Engagement With The Internet's Fads	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8nssAyIKLw
10	The Right Way To Market PC And Console Games In 2020	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-DIlkaIoXU
11	Marketing talk - Matt Trobbiani	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUikS5ojUSk
12	How to think PR & branding! - Peter Jakobsen	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXrvHD9p8ek
13	Basics of PR Specifically Tailored for Indie Developers - Jacki Vause	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCKZw0oQ2zk
14	Market Research Tips For PC Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9fTfbQuhgE
15	Marketing Authentically-Reaching Your Audience By Knowing Your Customers – Kate Distler	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Zx1K7V6t8
16	Your marketing Guide; Targeting Press, Players and Content Creators - Lauren Clinnick	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNyWDK--oTQ
17	Social Media And Influencer Marketing On A Budget - Michael Schade	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJdOy_u-huQ
18	Working as and with an Influencer - An Insight from two Perspectives	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQPLNYuPpUA
19	Generating Global Buzz: Creating Influencer-Led Communities Without Breaking the Bank	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihBKLE5xRsE
20	Why do Influencers Matter for Your Game, and How to Work with Them - Veera Rouvinen	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIX5470WUYU
21	Convince players to buy Your game with a proper trailer	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHpWmb5ZXyc
22	Your Game Trailer sucks. Here’s why and how you can fix it!	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGumvc0MsAI
23	The 9 Do’s and Don’ts of Game Trailers	https://gameanalytics.com/blog/dos-and-donts-of-game-trailers/
24	Trailers and Narrative Marketing	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DR4WarfahA
25	Cinematic Trailer for Games - Ryan Wong	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk9gMJbf0To
26	How to make better game trailers	https://wireframe.raspberrypi.org/articles/how-to-make-better-game-trailers
27	Video Game Trailer Academy	https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIGLRMCk1Wi8eD4iDKL6bOPFFAKAINQbv
28	Trailer Made: What Makes a Successful and Memorable Game Trailer	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWd7F0z1W_Y
29	How Game Devs Can Optimize Their Steam Page	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AboM4OHNbTk
30	So You Want to Have a Kick-Ass Steam Page	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LiviuBoar/20190612/344650/So_You_Want_to_Have_a_KickAss_Steam_Page.php
31	How Your Game Can Make the Most of New Tools on Steam	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJzkaRJVAxI
32	How to Improve the About This Game section on your Steam store page	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JoeHenson/20210510/381143/How_to_Improve_the_About_This_Game_section_on_your_Steam_store_page.php
33	The Store Page: Your Best Marketing Tool	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgbsCjP4PbY
34	Marketing for Game Devs: Store Page	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MichaelWagner/20210503/380761/Marketing_for_Game_Devs_Store_Page.php
35	Co-op Mission of Product and Marketing Teams in Pursuit of a Win	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHE1oXiDK7Y
36	How to plan long-term marketing strategy in the extremely dynamic mobile games industry	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4XZJ5YuaKU
37	Tips & Tricks to Promoting Your Games in China	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Fa1CBhUjA
38	How Can I Improve My Steam Page?	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5kRVk-Nxh4
39	Show the Dream, Not the Job	https://www.derek-lieu.com/blog/2020/2/25/show-the-dream-not-the-job	Tips on making trailers
40	The Best Debug Tools For Game Capture	https://www.derek-lieu.com/blog/2018/5/1/the-best-debug-tools-for-game-trailer-capture
41	Power of Game and Music Collaborations: Reaching and Engaging the Masses	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLyBk-P5HnA
42	Deadly Sins of Trailer Making: how to avoid mistakes in videogames marketing	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA4VxgsWDoc
43	The best influencer marketing practices and the most common mistakes you can make	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pP_VCVsA68
44	How to increase wishlists & game sales from China? Growth marketing tactics & case study	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWGP2gHwn0E
45	How to Market A PC Game	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh9CBk0FHSM
46	Introduction To Modern Game Marketing: A Practical Guide On The Basics	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDdsdeyGFIE
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3	Ensuring the Quality of your Quality Assurance: the studio guide on getting the most out of your QA team	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsASqlBLi2M
4	Best-Practice Quality Assurance for Small Teams	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ_vtRYCHD0
5	Automated testing -Dan Nilsson	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-FLXrTzR90
6	What You Need To Know About Game QA (Panel)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjiZNe8LW-U
7	Beginning a Career In Quality Assurance	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoHQKUe3aH4
8	How I learned to stop worrying and love QA (the role of QA)	https://youtu.be/1pjzT546RDw?t=435
9	QA needs pro players - A look at testing fighting games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSXYQESkOrQ
10	QA Sapper guide: Stable releases and controlled explosions	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFWjxZXKEHM
11	OA Sapper Guide - Stable Releases and Controlled Explosions	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXSuGhAys30
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2	Taking voice to the next level - Mark Estdale	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlWvX7_Sn2I
3	VO Masterclass - Mark Estdale	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vWYNVszizY
4	Neuroscience, the Secret Service & Producing Better Voice Content - Mark Estdale	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY6g8XzXltQ
5	Voice Recording Production and Direction - Kathy Smart	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdd4_8tkxk4
6	Finding The Right Voice Actors For You Game - Aimee Smith	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsBUJWG1Jr8
7	How to (NOT) prepare for mocap session! - Adrian Perdjon	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kon1gZDxcmQ
8	Getting excellent voice acting into your indie game	https://gamasutra.com/blogs/ErikHermansen/20210628/384195/Getting_excellent_voice_acting_into_your_indie_game_1.php
9	How to become a voice actor for video games	https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-07-07-how-to-become-a-voice-actor-for-video-games
10	Collaborative Approaches to Getting Great VO Performances	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYpWNHk4wm4
11	Directing Voice Actors - Sally Beaumont	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2fZifakLL4
12	Again But Better: Working with Voice Actors - Mike Bodie	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sumrwl_NJp4
13	Give your character a voice	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiK6tpWWo-g
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2	Level Design Summit: VR Lessons Learned in the Level Design of 'Blood & Truth'	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbOPAHwQmhk
3	Level Design in Virtual Reality - Linnea Harrison (Neat Corporation)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKVdUF7FOyc
4	Please Stop Making People Sick! - Mark Schramm	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SLtnmNgiSQ
5	The Unsolved Challenge of VR Locomotion	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6doUrM08DQ
6	A Heuristic Checklist for VR Design - Daniel Smith	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXIwZUmVWIE
7	Playtesting in VR: Takeaways - Laura Glibert	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGmc1FSqp5g
8	Tips for Indie VR Devs to Create Better VR FPS games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ro8W6jmLAQ
9	Put that planet to the left! - UX design in VR	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_olEyqXnC4
10	A Crash Course on VR Game Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9O-dbW_9lo
11	Game design for VR: Breaking Rules	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxKYqxA4LlM
12	VR Locomotion Vault	https://locomotionvault.github.io/	Huge database on VR locomotion
13	Get your hand out of my face! Making believable characters in VR	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na2ELfYRLAk
14	How NOT to Build a VR Arcade Game	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj8841GQuyc
15	Leap Into VR/AR Design	https://www.toptal.com/designers/ui/vr-ar-design-guide
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2	The Art of the Game Pitch - Tim Willits	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc9XKdAQ2Js
3	Pitching Games to Publishers - Cheryl Vance	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hnKW49uVYA
4	What Do Publishers Want? - Langer Lee	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEDgiUzw_34
5	Optimizing your pitch for Funding - Pontus Mähler	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo7MW33fwM0
6	How to tame a Game Publisher? Dos & Don'ts in getting your Game signed - Callum Underwood (Raw Fury)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSrGhxdmXY
7	What I Need From A Pitch; A Tale of Magic and MVPs - Johan Toresson (Raw Fury)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AApcsvWvK0A
8	You Only Pitch Once – Getting Game Pitches Right The First Time - Gregan Dunn	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYsve2eySjA
9	Pitching, Marketing and Business Advices for Game Developers - Sean Kauppinen	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSWZKSX11yo
10	Lessons from Both Sides of the Pitching Table - Colin Macdonald	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNn_jHcXR-c
11	Prototypes, publishing, pitching	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/SimonCarless/20201117/373897/Prototypes_publishing_pitching_oh_my.php
12	How to Make a Publisher Fall in Love With You at First Sight - Nikita Vladimirov	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM1I5mI9FmI
13	30 Things I Hate About Your Game Pitch	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LTtr45y7P0
14	Surviving Pitching Nightmares - Walid O. El Cheikh	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcdFc3D8_GE
15	Prototype, Pitch, Product - Rami Ismail	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF0S-vQL95A
16	10 reasons why an investor will say no to your game company	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uTQSr0E0wQ
17	How to successfully pitch to the publisher - Helge Peglow	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zeTpKy3ir4
18	Playlist from IndieGameBusiness with a lot of talks on Pitching & Crowdfunding	https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoZS-4WQ8F2SvaibW8qCotveO-ZRW4vW7
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2	Taking an Axe to God of War Gameplay	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX8Jn3XPoWQ
3	The lethality contract and combat balance in Ghost of Tsushima	https://blog.playstation.com/2020/11/25/honoring-the-blade-the-lethality-contract-and-combat-balance-in-ghost-of-tsushima/
4	Combat Design - Mark Acero	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHG3-Nwc4VM
5	AAA Combat Design \| Naughty Dog Panel @ PAX Prime 2014	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBNf2CHRQ8E
6	Authored vs. Systemic: Finding a Balance for Combat AI in 'Uncharted 4'	https://gdcvault.com/play/1023949/Authored-vs-Systemic-Finding-a
7	Controlling Chaos Designing Compelling Combat in Action Games - Adam Bormann	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoyX9-iEYYs
8	Unsynced: The Last of Us Melee System	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox2H3kUQByo
9	Deep Inside The Guts Of A Successful Attack	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU9MdlN1tas
10	Cancels' in combat	http://pushing-buttons.blogspot.com/2008/01/combat-cancelled.html
11	What Makes Combat Fun (archived)	https://web.archive.org/web/20130817044703/http://flark.net/blog/posts/33/what-makes-combat-fun
12	The Fundamental Pillars of a Combat System	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/175950/the_fundamental_pillars_of_a_.php?print=1
13	Darkstalkers and the Twelve Principles of Animation	https://art-eater.com/articles/darkstalkers-and-the-twelve-principles-of-animation
14	What's In A Punch? Sakura's Fierce Punch in SF4 vs SF5	https://art-eater.com/articles/what-s-in-a-punch-a-comparative-analysis-of-sakura-s-fierce-punch-from-street-fighter-4-vs-street-fighter-v
15	Design in Detail: Changing the Time Between Shots for the Sniper Rifle from 0.5 to 0.7 Seconds for Halo 3	https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1012211/Design-in-Detail-Changing-the
16	Analysis: The Simplest Fighting Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sUVNqNSo5M
17	Embracing Push Forward Combat in DOOM (2016)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KQNpQD8Ayo
18	Devil May Cry 5's Director On Making An Unforgettable Action Game	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gew2-DNi1bs
19	Devil May Cry 5: Creating a Standout Action Game	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWi5gjxdh4o
20	Controlling Chaos Designing Compelling Combat in Action Games - Adam Bormann	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoyX9-iEYYs
21	Devil May Cry 4 - Designing a Great Boss Fight	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZCZh5cb6s
22	Bayonetta's Enemy Design - Dancing with Danger	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HcvGEHRS9Q
23	How Action Games Encourage Skill	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inEZ3917P3w
24	Keys to Combat Design: Anatomy of an Attack	https://gdkeys.com/keys-to-combat-design-1-anatomy-of-an-attack/
25	Keys to Rational Enemy Design	https://gdkeys.com/keys-to-rational-enemy-design/
26	When Will The Attack Land	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-hQOq3pbCQ	Animation talk, but touches on things people & games often miss, like at 8:37 enemy telegraphing missing a pose
27	Enemy Design in Bayonetta 2 - Part 1	https://www.platinumgames.com/official-blog/article/6701
28	Enemy Design in Bayonetta 2 - Part 2	https://www.platinumgames.com/official-blog/article/6806
29	Angel/Demon Sound Design in Bayonetta 2	https://www.platinumgames.com/official-blog/article/6727	Also showcases attack telegraphing
30	09 to '19: A Decade of Approachability in Fighting Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TivpMwuGzeM
31	Fighting Games Explained - Character Archetypes	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnymxhfyCmE
32	Boss Up: Boss Battle Design Fundamentals and Retrospective	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Ymh4Ge5j8
33	Combat Designer Jason's blog	http://jasondeheras.com/blog
34	Boss Monster Pipeline: Developing Fun F2P Encounters	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdGnvBNDU-4
35	Punch Feel Good: How to Design Satisfying Action Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkjTeRHV5vo
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2	Articles on RTS design	https://waywardstrategy.com/category/rts101/
3	How we play RTS and what is wrong - Article	https://www.competitivegamedesign.net/rts
4	What Makes RTS Games Fun: Accessibility Woes of RTS - Article	https://gamecloud.net.au/features/opinion/what-makes-rts-games-fun-accessibility-woes-of-rts
5	What Makes RTS Games Fun: Why We Play RTS - Playlist	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m1cii3veqI&list=PLQnCYzupbmdZyMHtqfONplLhs3L5JZ7k5&index=10
6	Keith Burgun writes about strategy game design	http://keithburgun.net/
7	How do we improve resource harvesting in Real Time Strategy games?	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/BrandonCasteel/20191217/355793/How_do_we_improve_resource_harvesting_in_Real_Time_Strategy_games.php
8	Gaming Culture: Whatever happened to the RTS Genre?	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BbBSBsSFXY
9	Forum focused on strategy games	http://www.strategycore.co.uk/forums/
10	Real-Time Strategy “Level Design” (Archive)	https://web.archive.org/web/20180928173736/https://www.ultimaratioregum.co.uk/game/2013/09/07/real-time-strategy-level-design/
11	Real-Time Strategy “Level Design” II (Archive)	https://web.archive.org/web/20180828020122/https://www.ultimaratioregum.co.uk/game/2014/04/27/real-time-strategy-level-design-ii/
12	Designing for Tactics and Strategy (Archive)	https://web.archive.org/web/20181218140253/http://www.mostdangerousgamedesign.com/2013/10/designing-for-tactics-and-strategy.html
13	Designing Systems for Strategy Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgZ80qDXhts
14	Final Fantasy Tactics & Combat Initiative Systems	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtUNI59UzMU
15	Turn based tactical design fundamentals	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM6ZTAcnEkE
16	Understanding modern turn based tactical design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcBU8iyu4U0
17	Designing Systems for Strategy Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgZ80qDXhts
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2	Vector 2020: Jonathan Hamel on Puzzle Design Best Practices in Action/Adventure games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRYZO-5SvLk
3	Level Design Workshop: Solving Puzzle Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xBJwrm9C8w
4	DOs and DON'Ts of Honest Puzzle Game Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zVjdEhHmGo
5	What Makes a Good Puzzle? \| Game Maker's Toolkit	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsjC6fa_YBg
6	How to Design Logical Puzzles in Video Games -- Critical Thought	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWE3Ro4lZ0A
7	A Critical Thought on Puzzle Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlPokDZWN3Q
8	A podcast episode on puzzle design	https://game-wisdom.com/podcast/puzzle-design
9	The aesthetics of puzzle game design	https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/how-to-make-a-puzzle-game
10	Puzzling Out Puzzles	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BooAVnmCBmw	Sara Verrilli, researcher and game designer from the MIT Game Lab, talks about just what makes a puzzle, a puzzle.
11	Gorogoa: Puzzle Design is Visual Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gKCdUqdxDo
12	"That doesn't seem to work" - An adventure game puzzle design cheat sheet	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5V5GzuEHRs
13	Elyot Grant - 30 Puzzle Design Lessons - Part 1	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCHciE9CYfA
14	Elyot Grant - 30 Puzzle Design Lessons - Part 2	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUi2vMZajco
15	Elyot Grant - 30 Puzzle Design Lessons - Part 3	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsbfkMuaUxs
16	A Story of Boxes, and How Players Can’t Think Outside of It	https://gdkeys.com/a-story-of-boxes-and-how-players-cant-think-outside-of-it/
17	Puzzle Design - Scott Kim	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A0x87t4jvA
18	Problem-solving strategies and learning in The Witness - Megan Pusey	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFGMvF7Q3qA
19	Inside Inside's Puzzle Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqbiy4tChbs
20	A Story of Boxes, and How Players Can’t Think Outside of It	https://gdkeys.com/a-story-of-boxes-and-how-players-cant-think-outside-of-it/
21	Designing and Integrating Puzzles in Action-Adventure Games	https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/designing-and-integrating-puzzles-in-action-adventure-games
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2	Pillars of Eternity and Proper Attribute Tuning - Josh Sawyer	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvyrEhAMUPo
3	Reputation Overload - The Evolution of RPG Reputation Mechanics - Josh Sawyer	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OrUhqgueAE
4	The Evolution of RPG Mechanics: From Die Rolls to Hit Volumes - Josh Sawyer	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsduEcSrchE
5	Breaking the Mold RPG Evolution	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xChOXFJ83-g	Basically post-mortem of Pillars of Eternity 2
6	Making RPGs That Stand the Test of Time - Brian Fargo	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUI8tsO2_EI
7	Building a Better RPG: 7 Mistakes to Avoid - Tim Cain	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEewLWDpscA
8	PAX West Panel - Heroes, Villains, and You: Player Choice in Game Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yftGPkZxnKk
9	Looking Back and Moving Forward with Pillars of Eternity	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0RW3upLoJI
10	Guide to all the different Anti-Grind Mechanics that JRPG developers have made over the years	https://www.reddit.com/r/JRPG/comments/m5u2we/guide_to_all_the_different_antigrind_mechanics/
11	Balance in Single-Player CRPGs - Josh Sawyer	https://jesawyer.tumblr.com/post/161302725596/balance-in-single-player-crpgs
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2	Analysing AI Behaviour in Total War \| Creative Assembly	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NM78eM_yME
3	Banishing Player & Designer Grind With Emergent AI & Procedural Content - Dave Mark	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyJpO0HdqCg
4	A House Built on Sand: Engineering Stable and Reliable AI	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBusUGlnmWI
5	From Shodan, to Big Daddy, to Elizabeth: The Evolution of AI Companions - Ken Levine	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efv9Mgwk8SU
6	AI's not Skynet: A guide to Artificial Intelligence w/ Ian Gore	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFXe8bsbrKM
7	An Eye for AI (Enjoyable AI) - Yoeri Staal	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yeCbzm1Dw8
8	AI in Video Games - Aleksander Kauch	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRxvPTnFJVo
9	How to Create AI for Strategy Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUjtDdKM6oc
10	Introduction to AI - Dan Violet Sagmiller	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWT0caIDkqg
11	AI and Games channel	https://www.youtube.com/user/tthompso
12	Building the AI features for Wolcen: Bloodtrail	https://www.gamedeveloper.com/disciplines/building-the-ai-features-for-wolcen-bloodtrail
13	Designing AI and animation using the virtual actor metaphor	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv9hP7bgymc
14	Fighting Sequelitis: Creating Combat NPCs for 'Tom Clancy's The Division 2'	https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1026290/Fighting-Sequelitis-Creating-Combat-NPCs
15	Designing AI for Killer Instinct	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yydYjQ1GLg
16	Marvel's Spider-Man' AI Postmortem	https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025828/-Marvel-s-Spider-Man
17	AI in the Awesomepocalypse Creating the Enemies of Sunset Overdrive	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O66mmqOjEy0
18	AI Postmortems: Assassin's Creed III, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and Warframe	https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1018058/
19	Free Range AI: Creating Compelling Characters for Open World Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDCFMITrtHc
20	Downloadable: Cheat Sheets for AI, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Deep Learning & Data Science PDF	https://becominghuman.ai/cheat-sheets-for-ai-neural-networks-machine-learning-deep-learning-big-data-science-pdf-f22dc900d2d7
21	Advanced Randomness Techniques for Game AI	http://www.gameaipro.com/GameAIPro/GameAIPro_Chapter03_Advanced_Randomness_Techniques_for_Game_AI.pdf
22	Behavior Places - breathing life into the world of Dying Light 2: Stay Human	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPISdwSTcfs
23	Creating NPCs' perception system from the ground up	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lYzE7ewaiY
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2	Building Non-Linear Narratives in Horizon: Zero Dawn	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykPZcG8_mPU
3	Creating quests in the open world of Horizon Zero Dawn	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-v2uKImGW8
4	Balancing Action and RPG in Horizon Zero Dawn Quests	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8WDPmwOHKg
5	Anatomy of Quests in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5TH9KakBDw	♥
6	Birth of a Quest: The Warble of a Smitten Knight (The Witcher 3)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loGZGaeso4s
7	Designing The Witcher 3's Most Famous Quest	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gvVp9cP8xc
8	The Process of Quest Design On Witcher 3	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-bdlcnXBn8
9	Quest Design in Linear Media	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/NathanSavant/20210111/376020/Quest_Design_in_Linear_Media.php
10	Quest Design - when story and gameplay collide	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igwagmuu8ws
11	Ghost of Tsushima - The Art of Compelling Quest Design	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/SukhrajJohal/20201120/374076/Ghost_of_Tsushima__The_Art_of_Compelling_Quest_Design.php
12	Creating a narrative focused mission design document: A Last of Us example	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MichaelHow/20190823/343703/Creating_a_Narrative_Focused_Mission_Design_Document__Last_of_Us_Example.php
13	The Quest for the Custom Quest System	https://www.gamedev.net/articles/game-design/game-design-and-theory/the-quest-for-the-custom-quest-system-r4728/
14	Four Steps to Detailed Quest Lines	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MattChristian/20110622/89680/Four_Steps_to_Detailed_Quest_Lines.php
15	Designing side quests? Study these 7 games	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/314812/Designing_side_quests_Study_these_7_games_and_some_Chris_Avellone_pointers.php
16	How Obsidian Designed The Outer Worlds' Quests	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_4dbG7RVeQ
17	Side Quests In RPGs: The Good & Bad	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMGjpVIcEdE
18	360 Approach for Open World Mission Design in Far Cry and Assassin's Creed	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knWzlR8mGWA
19	God of War (2018) dev on designing worthwhile quests	https://blog.playstation.com/2018/12/05/how-santa-monica-studios-nailed-exploration-in-god-of-war/
20	Implementing Bounty Hunting in Mafia III	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaviTejaSanampudi/20210510/381134/Implementing_Bounty_Hunting_in_Mafia_III.php
21	Key Quest Design Lessons from The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 - Paweł Sasko	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EalV7jWpkgY
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2	The Sound Of Hyper Light Drifter - Akash Thakkar	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhIBmq2r9bw
3	How Sound Design Can Up Your Game	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0C8a4uG-NE	Goes over what sound design is and how it can help your game
4	Psychology of Sound Design - Rob Carr	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeJdQZGORjI
5	Music in an Open-world Survival Game - Kevin Patzelt	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLFX9QIvqtk
6	Elements, Language & Integration of Music Storytelling in Games - Ivana Ancic	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ErDiKrna9g
7	Giving a Voice to the Machines of Horizon Zero Dawn - Pinar Temiz	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPF9TANVlYA
8	Sound Design for AAA Games - Juan Uribe	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSZ-KZ-mH7M
9	Does your sound have vision? - Dan Sugars	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K69i-ORpAM
10	Adaptive Music in Video Games - Adam Sporka	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FB8bO--0jU
11	Music Defines a Game's World - Chel Wong	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSPPozqu_1c
12	Importance of sound in video games - Jan Kadanec	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBvOMnumqxA
13	Collaboration between Game Developer and Game Music Composer	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9gPnN195vA
14	How to talk and work with game composers - Jade "JDWasabi" Leamcharaskul	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5-RH7gLERc
15	Audio: The Invisible, Untouchable, Ultimate Creative Paradigm	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHkVZcbr7G8
16	All the Feels: How Narrative & Audio Can Work Together - Anna Irwin-Schutze	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n26VrOP_t7c
17	Originality Factor in Fallout Composition - Inon Zur	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfuV3g5Q9dU
18	Single Player to MMO - Audio Creation for The Elder Scrolls Online	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPByCpwoh4
19	Your Strategy Guide for Being A Game Audio Designer	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nf4uORXSB0
20	Working in Game Audio and Sound Design Masterclass - Bjørn Jacobsen	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLOmk6ly_CE
21	Music for Games by Az Samad	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYrtYZj5k10
22	Game Sound Design & Ambisonic Recording: Recording for the Future - Richard Devine	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuu36w76rhA
23	The Philosophy of the DOOM(2016) Soundscape - Chad Mossholder	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J4d-rjMtXw
24	The Sounds of Don't Starve - Matt Marteinsson	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW50eXhB7wI
25	Scoring For Video Games - Shaun Chasin	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzRlvRBqwPc
26	Manufacturing Innovation in Game Audio - Andrew Beck	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSzA0fdcJeQ
27	Performance-Based Sound Design - Matt Piersall	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=492ppIyinGA
28	Mixing for Games Levels and More - Jocelyn Daoust	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDPHnumf7l4
29	From Immersive soundscapes to Mass battles - Creative Assembly	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rOky8rp3QU
30	Effective Audio in Game Design - Kevin Regamey	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Z4ad3qBoQ
31	Managing Complexity in Game Audio - Creative Assembly	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDHiuebBBYg
32	Sound Design in AAA Games (Panel Discussion)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7q9nFH0dHQ
33	Creating and Implementing Vehicle Sounds for Games - Mike Caviezel	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwhycFQQedM
34	Work smarter, not harder - systemic approach to open-world audio in DL2: Stay Human	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHxIWJtzvgg
35	From 'Spyder' to 'Sackboy: A Big Adventure' in Interactive Music	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPV258XyNy8
36	A Look into Games Music Composition	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEgbYMAAun0
37	The Third Eye of Sound Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr2HQUb7TC0
38	Angel/Demon Sound Design in Bayonetta 2	https://www.platinumgames.com/official-blog/article/6727
39	The creative process behind Samorost 3 soundtrack	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21_C4L667xw
40	Spreadsheet with Game Audio Learning resources	https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fcuhGEesLC_PWCwY3dIwLgF774sKswOwIcZECWiH7Xo/edit#gid=0
41	The Basics of Recording Audio for Digital Video	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9cP1WHL0Zo
42	The Last Of Us - Why Nobody Talks About The Music	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TYNLe8qjMc	Analyzing the intricacies of the music & sound design
43	The sound design of Hearthstone	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYKL3uozCfQ
44	The sound design secrets of Horizon Zero Dawn	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIAmi88akl0
45	Dead Cells' music making and other stuff	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewiWqQ3pK8A
46	Impact of music and SFX in immersive games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su965MGuFz4
47	Sounds of Cyberpunks Night City	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M77IVAlN3w8
48	What to expect and how to talk to your sound person	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpZhDkmLlFg
49	Behind the Split Screen Sound of It Takes Two A Story	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrOHf5dvTps
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2	What every game designer should know about human psychology	https://gamasutra.com/blogs/MichaelMoran/20201214/375229/What_every_game_designer_should_know_about_human_psychology.php
3	6 Mistakes That'll Drain the 'Juice' Out Of Your Game	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MikeSalyh/20201124/373974/
4	User Experience Points	https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmPzC-j7-a6FvDzJpUG2LCH4v5OXsndQu	A video series discussing user experience design in video game
5	Spoiled for choice: The psychology of choice overload in games	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/BobTilford/20160810/278859/Spoiled_for_choice_The_psychology_of_choice_overload_in_games_and_how_to_avoid_it.php
6	Laws of UX	https://lawsofux.com/
7	Generating And Guiding Visual Interest	http://howtonotsuckatgamedesign.com/2013/11/generating-visual-interest/
8	UXLx - User Experience Lisbon	https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvoEJgCYu1e6kvUvx7lN7kw/videos	Channel dedicated to UX design
9	Game UX Style Guide: Why Do You Need One?	https://gameanalytics.com/blog/game-ux-style-guide.html	The importance of Game UX style guides, and why you might need one.
10	Understanding the Success of Fortnite: A UX & Psychology Perspective	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/CeliaHodent/20190723/347166/Understanding_the_Success_of_Fortnite_A_UX__Psychology_Perspective.php	Extensive examination of the UX of Fortnite
11	How Onboarding Should be Applied to Tutorials	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JoshBycer/20190829/349623/How_Onboarding_Should_be_Applied_to_Tutorials.php	How to design for new players to your game
12	The Gamer's Brain: How Neuroscience and UX Can Impact Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIpDLa585ao	♥Goes over how knowing things about how the brain works can help you give players the experience you want
13	A Different Approach To Difficulty	https://gamecareerguide.com/features/1769/a_different_approach_to_.php	Pros and cons of various difficulties and possible ways to solve issues
14	Dealing With Death: Streamlining The Player Experience	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/134947/dealing_with_death_streamlining_.php	Examples and ideas on how to lessen the blow of dying in videogames
15	5 Tips to Improve Your Game’s User Experience	https://gameanalytics.com/blog/5-tips-to-improve-your-games-user-experience.html	UX design tips
16	Freedom Fallacy: Understanding "Player Autonomy" in Game Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vct13OhIio
17	Environmental Psychology (playlist)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8I4BDUXTWo&list=PLA2E69FC89640C272&index=6	Parts 5, 10, 12-16 seems most relevant
18	The Psychology of Video Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9dICZboMkU
19	UX Maturity at DICE: A Bottom-Up Approach to UX Buy-In	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwDR-HHHwJk
20	Ghost Recon: Wildlands Case Study: Looking through the lens of self-determination theory	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwnlSf2_pyc
21	Using psychology to maximise game design and player understanding	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doedr1Zh8Eo
22	Advanced Game Feel	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EABa8X3lEPM
23	Self-Determination Theory and Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkBLoWYbjRk
24	The Psychology of Player Engagement	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG5P55jJ2UQ
25	Four Lenses for Designing Morally Engaging Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co2k6nqSATM
26	To Err is to Play: Human Error and Game Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyuR2fKvQ20
27	Pacing the flow of information in AAA Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AAGisN8Lh4
28	Lessons learned designing the Onboarding of Ghost Recon Wildlands	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmADOarkIgA
29	Evolution of a Role: UX and UI Tech Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p2_tj76OVA
30	Bridging the Gap Between UX Principles and Game Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Pqsk74Jc0
31	Disempowerment Fantasies: How taking power away from players can create better games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O9r1ma0F1g
32	UX without UI — Creating User Experiences in Action Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mESuaYdB_g4
33	We don’t Have Time for UX - Developing Tools in a Fast Paced Environment	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFWlDgfCeMQ
34	The UX of Post-Game Statistics in PvP Mobile Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knWRZH2u9Xc
35	Atmosphere in games: Easy tricks to insure immersion	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWoV3UmPNVw
36	How to design with feedback and game feel in mind	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCKI9T3sSv0
37	Crafting an Experience: Designing a Game Feelings First	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ7pljOIO9Q
38	UX Lessons Learned on Destiny	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWYplcb3fgo
39	Advancing UX Maturity in Game Studios - Celia Hodent	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krv51iq8FVg
40	Creating Meaningful UX Processes For Indies On a Budget	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8-Yl0Gm-iw
41	Presence in Practice: Affinity vs. Contrast in Video Game UX	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgRSk9eQEIw
42	Hooked: how pokies are designed to be addictive	https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/ng-interactive/2017/sep/28/hooked-how-pokies-are-designed-to-be-addictive
43	The players-focused approach throughout the game development cycle	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WOiKwlDYdg
44	"Is this fun?": Practical tactics to integrate player insight throughout development	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwTbRWvvh1c	Proper playtesting and red flags
45	How to Engage Players: A UX Approach to Onboarding & Motivation	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAn2h_ibc7I
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2	The Ten Commandments Of Video Game Menus	https://kotaku.com/the-ten-commandments-of-video-game-menus-5955855	Things to consider when designing menus
3	7 Principles of Icon Design	https://uxdesign.cc/7-principles-of-icon-design-e7187539e4a2
4	The only advice you will need to make a great game UI/UX	https://medium.com/ironequal/the-only-advice-you-will-need-to-make-a-great-game-ui-ux-74a0db8de642	Well-rounded guide on how to design UI with good UX
5	4 tips on typography in UI design	https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/4-tips-on-typography-in-ui-design/	How optimizing your typography helps create better UI
6	UX/UI in Destiny	http://www.cand.land/destinydocs	David Candland (UX/UI on Halo and Destiny series) shares detailed walkthroughs of his work
7	UX/UI in Halo	http://www.cand.land/halodocs	David Candland (UX/UI on Halo and Destiny series) shares detailed walkthroughs of his work
8	Making of the user interface in Endless Legends	https://www.makinggames.biz/feature/making-of-the-user-interface-in-endless-legends,9338.html	Process and takeaways from the UI design of Endless Legend (a strategy game)
9	Diegesis and designing for immersion	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/GabrielNaro/20180801/323232/Diegesis_and_designing_for_immersion.php	Tips on designing for in-world and in-narrative UI
10	What Makes AAA Game UI - Constantine Gavrykov, Kamil Krupski Wargaming	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq6CJTdwfz8
11	"We’ll fix it in UI" - David Candland (Bungie)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnxZxQpDsJg
12	Destiny's Tenacious Design and Interface	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp4NZ8i80QI
13	Art Direction for AAA UI	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjbxxbmJCh0
14	The Psychological Basis for UI Design Rules	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gw2bnwQRno
15	Practical Tips for Great UI Animation - Pablo Stanley	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmXVxkWjLT8
16	UI in Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh_ZFB2jwOo	Has timestamps, etc in description
17	More than just pictures: Creating accessible iconography - Leiker	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5MNDZ7EAdA
18	Good Design, Bad Design	https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8K0_g1wdQeoxta9RyvTK-DnhU4jI2QJN	Playlist of videos looking at UIs in games
19	Keys to Efficient User Interfaces	https://gdkeys.com/keys-efficient-user-interfaces/
20	Making UI for Total War: a UI design pipeline - Creative Assembly	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSoW-8xkaQs
21	UI Design in Bayonetta 2	https://www.platinumgames.com/official-blog/article/6733
22	Dark UIs. The Good and the Bad. Dos and Don’ts.	https://www.toptal.com/designers/ui/dark-ui
23	Long Dark: Survival game HUD UI	https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/long-dark-survival-game-hud-ui
24	The fundamental UI element most games miss	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaGvhTTvNVo
25	Menus in Video Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To6DO-Rj5vE
26	Menus & HUD: the Temporality Perspective	https://gdkeys.com/menus-hud-the-temporality-perspective/
27	Paralanguage in Games	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40GwEf4bFuA
28	UI Design resources	https://www.notion.so/onewithmachines/WE-CAN-FIX-IT-IN-UI-9f588869324a45e2b2d0595546ce77d1
29	Hearthstone: How to Create an Immersive User Interface	https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022036/
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2	Twine	http://twinery.org/	Narrative	FREE - Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. Useful for narrative design.
3	Mipui	https://www.mipui.net/app/	Level	FREE - Top down level design tool. Draw out maps, place icons, change how the grid looks under "Map". Once you start editing the link can be saved for future work.
4	articy:draft	https://www.articy.com/en/	Narrative	PAID - Very powerful narrative design tool. Has a 14 day free trial. Acceptable cost of ~50-60€ per month for 2-3 users, gets more expensive with more users.
5	Just Sketch Me	https://justsketch.me/	Documentation	FREE - Poseable mannequin. Useful for visualizing character movement and such in for example documentation.
6	Dungeon Painter Online	http://pyromancers.com/dungeon-painter-online/	Level	FREE - Top down level design tool. Draw out maps, place icons, etc.
7	Scrivener	https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview	Narrative	PAID - Writing tool. Has a 30 day free trial.
8	Write or Die	https://writeordie.com/	Narrative	FREE - Basically forces you to write either by annoying you or by using Kamikaze mode (narrative designers recommends this) to have it delete if you havent written after a set time.
9	Noclip	https://noclip.website/	Level	FREE - Fly around in levels from various games.
10	yED Graph Editor	https://www.yworks.com/products/yed	General	FREE - Create various graphs & diagrams. Useful for planning flowcharts and such.
11	yED Graph Editor (online)	https://www.yworks.com/yed-live/	General	FREE - Same as the above, but it's the online version.
12	Draw io	https://www.draw.io/	General	FREE - Graph & diagram tool.
13	Loopy	https://ncase.me/loopy/	General & System	FREE - Create loops to test out, for example, how various system affect eachother in a visual manner.
14	Machinations	https://machinations.io/	General	FREE - Graph & diagram tool. Can also visualize your active flow at work.
15	Aspect Ratio Calculator	https://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/aspect_ratio/	General	FREE - Calculate aspect ratio
16	Inkarnate	https://inkarnate.com/	World Building	PAID - Create world and city fantasy maps
17	Wonderdraft	https://www.wonderdraft.net/	World Building	PAID - Create world maps
18	Level Design references	http://level-design.org/referencedb/index.php?/category/29	Level Design	FREE - Comprehensive screenshot collection of videogame levels
19	Combination Generator	http://textmechanic.com/text-tools/combination-permutation-tools/combination-generator/	System	FREE - Allows you to combine different symbols and generate their potential combinations
20	AnyDice	https://anydice.com/	System	FREE - Dice Probability Calculator
21	Videogame generator	http://orteil.dashnet.org/gamegen	General	FREE - Generates random game ideas
22	Go Moodboard	http://www.gomoodboard.com/	General	FREE - Online moodboard that requires no sign-up to use
23	Fantasy Map Generator	https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/	World Building	FREE - Generate world maps
24	Fantasy city generator	https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator	World Building	FREE - Generate fantasy city maps
25	Game Icons	https://game-icons.net/	UI	FREE - Huge library of free (so long as you credit the authors) game icons
26	Moqups	https://moqups.com/	UX/UI	PAID - Web app that helps you create and collaborate in real-time on wireframes, mockups, diagrams and prototypes.
27	Terrain Party	https://terrain.party/	World/Level building	FREE - Site where you can (for free) select real world mountains/landscape shapes and save them as heightmaps that you can then import into for example UE4 or other engines.
28	Open Street Map	https://www.openstreetmap.org/	World/Level building	FREE - Site where you can (for free) select real world cities and roads, save them and import them into game engines.
29	Open Street Map UE4 plugin	https://forums.unrealengine.com/community/released-projects/105486-plugin-openstreetmap-importer	UE4	FREE - A plugin someone created for UE4 that is used to use the above open street map data.
30	Hack n Plan	https://hacknplan.com/	General	FREE - Task management tools. Good if you work in teams.
31	Trello	https://trello.com/	General	FREE - Task management tools. Good if you work in teams.
32	ChatMapper	http://www.chatmapper.com/	Narrative	PAID - Tool for writing and testing nonlinear dialogue and events.
33	Confluence	https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence	Documentation	PAID - Basically a form of wiki service. Good for online documentation for you game.
34	Balanced Stat Gen	https://creative-ed.itch.io/balanced-stat-gen	General	FREE - Tool to help you with balancing stats and such for an RPG type game.
35	Collection of interactive maps - 1	https://mapgenie.io/	Level/World design	FREE - Useful for examing world & level design
36	Collection of interactive maps - 2	https://www.ign.com/maps	Level/World design	FREE - Useful for examing world & level design
37	Real world name generator	https://www.behindthename.com/random/	Narrative	FREE - Select and generate various real world names
38	Blog with games explaining math	https://datagenetics.com/blog.html	System	FREE
39	Page with useful Excel formulas and such	https://exceljet.net/formulas	System	FREE
40	Excel spreadsheets in Python with openpyxl	https://realpython.com/openpyxl-excel-spreadsheets-python/	System	FREE
41	Interface in game	https://interfaceingame.com/	UI	FREE - Reference for UI in games
42	Playpeep	https://playpeep.tumblr.com/	UI	FREE - Reference for UI in games
43	Game UI Database	https://www.gameuidatabase.com/	UI	FREE - Reference for UI in games
44	Trelby	https://www.trelby.org/	Narrative	FREE - Multiplatform, screenwriting program
45	Ren'Py	https://renpy.org/	Engine	FREE - Visual novel engine
46	Fungus	https://fungusgames.com/	Narrative	FREE - Narrative extension for Unity
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2	Game Accessability Guidelines	http://gameaccessibilityguidelines.com/	Great site that breaks down how to design for various levels of accessibility
3	Coblis	https://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/	Upload an image and visualize color blindness
4	APX Design Patterns	https://accessible.games/accessible-player-experiences/	Helps you understand what accessibility issues various people can experience in games (Scroll down a bit on the site)
5	Accessibility Score Card	https://twitter.com/LadieAuPair/status/1009494887740260352	Fill in the score card and get a general idea of how accessible your game is
6	Designing for Disability - GMTK	https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc38fcMFcV_vvWOhMDriBlVocTZ8mKQzR	Game Makers Toolkit video series on how to design for disability
7	Designing Main Menu Screens for Visually Impaired Gamers	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/TomGantzer/20200113/356281/Designing_Main_Menu_Screens_for_Visually_ImpairedGamers.php
8	Collection of articles, resources, papers and guidelines	https://igda-gasig.org/how/for-developers-researchers/
9	Game Accessibility (IGDA-GASIG) Discord	https://discord.gg/H5wtW4C
10	Douglas Pennant’s GDC talk on color blindness	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbFs9ghIIEI
11	Ian Hamilton - Accessibility for Disabled Gamers	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umU9xavDJqQ
12	Importance of Good User Experience Design for Mobility Accessibility	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=006jfzCrMtQ
13	Brian Allgeier - Spider-man: Embracing accessibility at Insomniac	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ_RdQ2BSx0
14	Simple Accessibility Practices to Expand Games’ Reach	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk0NfrkAgmw
15	Xbox Accessibility Guidelines	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c0zuTZqFgw
16	Xbox Accessibility Guidelines	https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/accessibility/guidelines
17	The Importance of Good User Experience Design for Mobility Accessibility	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=006jfzCrMtQ
18	What Accessibility Features Are Best for Your Game?	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqjcaIsetVQ
19	How UX Can Spearhead your Accessibility Push - Alex Neonakis Naughty Dog	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFcRwY2gj-8
20	Game Accessibility: Building on Rock - Ian Hamilton	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaSKOCAJOgk
21	Design considerations and best practices for subtitling your game - Kari Hattner	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enHEA2Lk_kg
22	IGDA Game Accessibility SIG Youtube channel	https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKWG26bBd7TOiaLtc_crqvw/videos
23	Last of Us 2 Accessibility options	https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/the-last-of-us-part-ii/accessibility/
24	Game Accessibility, the right thing to do	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PTJFrdlYNU
25	Designing Better Controls with Xbox Adaptive Controller	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj-2XVxzqCc
26	Design Barriers for Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing Gamers - Jasmine Granados	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNaY1qWI3l4
27	Make your game Accessible with Issac Goodfellow	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFCP3tUgoqk
28	Accessibility User Research in The Last of Us 2 - Kevin Keeker	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Nd8a29Ue4
29	Accessibility in Game Design and Development	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcFHcRyErTw
30	Can I play that?	https://caniplaythat.com/	Site about how accessible games are
31	Game Access	https://gameaccess.info/	Information on games, equipment and software for physically disabled players.
32	Accessibility Best Practices: In-Game Communication	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buofGNw88rc
33	How to make your game (in)accessible in 4 simple steps	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esk9JbWmUMc
34	Accessibility Best Practices: Mobility Considerations	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XBjj69-uK0
35	Last of Us remake Accessibility features	https://blog.playstation.com/2022/08/26/the-last-of-us-part-i-full-list-of-accessibility-features/
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3	Unity Presents: Tips and Resources for Prototyping Your Game Ideas	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RyZ0RULFdY
4	Memory Management in Unity	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mxixc0q2wk
5	Target 60fps Unity URP Performance Optimisation & Analysis for mobile devices	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjcNSjf7tvw
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2	Tips on Modular Level Design in UE4	https://80.lv/articles/tips-on-modular-level-design-in-ue4/	How to level design with different mesh pieces
3	Unreal Engine 4 Lighting Masterclass (Summary)	http://www.tomlooman.com/lighting-with-unreal-engine-jerome/	Summary of the official EpicGames video on lighting.
4	True First Person Camera in Unreal Engine 4	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/FabricePiquet/20180621/320400/True_First_Person_Camera_in_Unreal_Engine_4.php	How to create a first person camera view with a full body 3D character mesh.
5	Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial	https://www.raywenderlich.com/771-unreal-engine-4-tutorial-for-beginners-getting-started	Has a lot of good Unreal Engine tutorials. Linked is an introductory one.
6	Blueprint UE	https://blueprintue.com/	Allows to the sharing and copying of unreal blueprints. You just copypaste blueprint scripts into or from it.
7	Nitrogen (Youtube user)	https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw28L3tO3x2WCdq7cjgLMBQ/videos	Posts a lot of UE4 tutorials
8	Mathew Wadstein (Youtube user)	https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOVfF7PfLbRdVEm0hONTrNQ/playlists	Posts videos explaining how to use nodes, functions, etc. inside of UE4.
9	underscore	https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNNv_Y_XoWcDWhmKuBCXdZw/videos	Posts various UE4 tutorials
10	Tom Looman	https://unreal-engine-4.zeef.com/tom.looman	Collection of useful UE4 related tutorial links. This site also has a lot of other good UE4 tutorials.
11	Unreal Engine 4 Resources	https://ue4resources.com/plugins	Has free sample projects with various solutions, as well as plugins.
12	UE4 lighting troubleshoot wiki	https://wiki.unrealengine.com/LightingTroubleshootingGuide	Has solutions to common lighitng issues
13	Tharle VFX	http://www.tharlevfx.com/unreal-4-material-editor-math	Bunch of UE4 tutorials, more focused on VFX
14	Dokipen	https://www.youtube.com/user/DokipenTechTutorials/videos	Youtube channel dedicated to tech art inside UE4.
15	Official Epic learning portal for UE4	https://www.unrealengine.com/academy
16	Example projects designed to help newcomers learn UE4	https://ue4resources.com/	You can download them and poke around in them, etc.
17	Unreal Engine 4 cheat sheet	https://twitter.com/TychoBolt/status/1143052161485561856
18	Site mostly focused on common mechanics found in shooters	http://shootertutorial.com/
19	Jess's UE4 Tutorials	https://jesshiderue4.wordpress.com/
20	Aurora Gameworks - tutorials	https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCTNHXRaoC_sXnxhRKLZqjg/videos
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3	Game Directions on Collaborative Teams	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r6JSHlq7WU	Josh Sawyer (Obsidian Entertainment) giving tips on how to work as a team and as a game director/team leader
4	Soft Skills for Game Developers	https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/SteveThornton/20200701/365709/Soft_Skills_for_Game_Developers.php	Steve Thornton put together some tips on improving your soft skills (working with others)
5	10 tips on what to do and what not to do when applying for jobs	https://twitter.com/jjsaunders/status/1088876626270670848	Jessica Saunders shares some tips
6	Improving the Culture of Critique: Communicating Across Disciplines	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvz8MqQfzUk
7	A Producer's 10 Lessons Learned the Hard Way	https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/167831/a_producers_10_lessons_learned_.php
8	Getting started in Game Development	https://www.startmakinggames.com/
9	Lists companies currently with open job postings	https://www.gamedevstudios.com/	Does not list them if they're related to gambling/mobile.
10	Job site listing for the game industry	https://gracklehq.com/
11	Game Programmers The Heart of the Machine - by Josh Sawyer	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maZnkDIbLQs	How designers and programmers can better communicate and work together
12	The Surprising Science of Meetings \| Dr. Steven Rogelberg	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWIlZosXxCM	Talk on how to improve meetings for everyone.
13	Advocating for Yourself When Your Manager Doesn’t, Can’t or Won’t	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zynymKpG3uQ
14	How to Cultivate Healthy Teams Now and Later	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xWWl2YexF8
15	Beyond Game Design	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igPKym-Imso	Talk on Soft Skills
16	Mindfulness: How to Call Off the Emotional Attack Dogs \| Paul Ekman	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG3fOOT7xWQ
17	Teamwork: How to Harness the Most Powerful (Game Dev) Tool on Earth	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrQKEIHUVys
18	A Survival Guide for Game Developers	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaRnAXozc58	Important Soft Skills
19	How to prepare yourself for Game Production (by Creative Assembly)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldKamkB-_ws
20	How To Become A Video Game Writer	https://www.gameindustrycareerguide.com/how-to-become-a-video-game-writer/
21	Getting A Job In Game or Narrative Design	http://katiechironis.com/2018/05/13/getting-a-job-in-game-or-narrative-design-pt-1-preparing-yourself/
22	How to Apply for a Game Writing Job	http://www.annamegill.com/blog/2017/10/24/how-to-apply-for-a-game-writing-job
23	From Student to Designer	https://lizengland.com/blog/2014/05/from-student-to-designer-part-1/
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2	The AIAS Game Maker’s Notebook	https://www.interactive.org/Interviews/the_game_makers_notebook.asp	Interviews with industry veterans
3	Script Lock	https://scriptlock.simplecast.com/	Narrative design podcast
4	The Writing Game	http://thewritinggame.libsyn.com/	Narrative design podcast
5	Dev Game Club	http://www.devgameclub.com/	Veteran game devs plays classic videogames and talk about them. Also contains interviews with the developers of said games.
6	Level Design Lobby	https://leveldesignlobby.libsyn.com/	Veteran level designer runs a podcast (and patreon at www.patreon.com/leveldesignlobby ) on level design.
7	Pretentious Game Ideas	https://podtail.com/podcast/pretentious-game-ideas/designing-for-narrative-lucas-j-w-johnson/	(No new releases since 2018)
8	Level Design Podcast	https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/fckey-90218/Level-Design-Podcast	Podcast focused on answering questions people have on level design.
9	The psychology of videogames	https://www.psychologyofgames.com/podcast/	Focused on the psychology behind game design.
10	The Game Design Roundtable	https://thegamedesignroundtable.com/
11	Game Dev Loadout	https://www.gamedevloadout.com/podcast/
12	Keith Burgun's podcast	http://keithburgun.net/category/podcast/
13	Designer Notes	https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes	(The site has a several other podcasts as well)
14	Playmakers	http://brightblack.co/playmakers
15	The Debug Log	http://thedebuglog.com/category/podcast/
16	Looking Glass Studios Interview Series	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub_7L9H6oMc&list=PLStBc643FQTBOx-WC5yU2ZyN0WJA_fXQB	Interview series from people at Looking Glass Studios
17	Game Makers: A Ubisoft Podcast	https://pod.link/1496638257
18	Irrational Games Podcast	https://irrationalgames.ghoststorygames.com/tag/irrational-podcasts/	(No longer updated, but has a number of interesting interviews with industry people)
19	The Collective	https://www.thecollectivepodcast.com/
20	Game Artist Podcast	https://blog.vertexschool.com/game-artist-podcast/	Game art focused
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2	Video Game Storytelling: What Every Developer Needs to Know about Narrative Techniques	Evan Skolnick	Narrative	Provides a foundation for how to contruct a game's narrative
3	Wireframe	Various	General	FREE/PAID - Game developer focused magazine with developer guides. Free .pdf, paid physical.	https://wireframe.raspberrypi.org/issues
4	Slay the Dragon: Writing Great Video Games	Robert Denton Bryant	Narrative	Focused on improving your writing for videogames
5	101 things I learned in architecture school	Matthew Frederick	Level Design	Helps broaden your understanding or architecture
6	The design of everyday things	Don Norman	Level Design/General	Focuses on affordance (basically, how intuitive something is)
7	Understanding Comics, The Invisible art	Scott McCloud	Level Design	Interesting parts on visual communication
8	The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses	Jesse Schell	General	Great well-rounded book on game design.
9	A Theory of Fun for Game Design	Raph Koster	General	Easy to read general design book. Well-suited for budding game designers.
10	Level Up!	Scott Rogers	General	Another great read on general game design.
11	Game Design Workshop	Tracy Fullerton	General	Yet another classic general game design book
12	Procedural Storytelling in Game Design	Tanya X. Short, Tarn Adams	Narrative	On a relatively new area of storytelling in games.
13	Architecture: Form, Space, & Order	Francis D. K. Ching	Level Design	Focus on teaching architectural design.
14	Challenges for Game Designers	Brenda Brathwaite	General
15	Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design	Ernest Adams	General
16	Advanced Game Design: A Systems Approach	Michael Sellers	General
17	Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals	Katie Salen Tekinbas	General
18	Players Making Decisions: Game Design Essentials and the Art of Understanding Your Players	Zack Hiwiller	General
19	Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture	Johan Huizinga	General
20	Designing Games	Tynan Sylvester	General
21	An Architectural Approach to Level Design	Christopher W. Totten	Level Design
22	Level Design: Processes and Experiences	Christopher W. Totten	Level Design
23	Preproduction Blueprint: How to Plan Game Environments and Level Designs	Alex Galuzin	Level Design
24	The Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation, and Cognition	William J. Mitchell	Level Design
25	Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter	James Gurney	Level Design
26	The Game Narrative Toolbox	Tobias Heussner	Narrative
27	Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development	K.M. Weiland	Narrative
28	Story Structure and Development: A Guide for Animators, VFX Artists, Game Designers, and Virtual Reality	Craig Caldwell	Narrative
29	Pixar Storytelling: Rules for Effective Storytelling Based on Pixar’s Greatest Films	Dean Movshovitz	Narrative
30	Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel	Lisa Cron	Narrative
31	Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation	Francis Glebas	Narrative
32	Creating Places (The Art of World Building Book 2)	Randy Ellefson	Narrative
33	On Writing and Worldbuilding: Volume I	Timothy Hickson	Narrative
34	Write Characters Your Readers Won't Forget	Stant Litore	Narrative
35	The Gamer's Brain: How Neuroscience and UX Can Impact Video Game Design	Celia Hodent	Psychology & UX
36	Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products	Nir Eyal	Psychology & UX
37	The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business	Charles Duhigg	Psychology & UX
38	Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions	Dr. Dan Ariely	Psychology & UX
39	The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide	Leah Buley	Psychology & UX
40	Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability	Steve Krug	Psychology & UX
41	Game Feel: A Game Designer's Guide to Virtual Sensation	Steve Swink	Psychology & UX
42	Game Thinking: Innovate smarter & drive deep engagement with design techniques from hit games	Amy Jo Kim	Psychology & UX
43	Bottlenecks: Aligning UX Design with User Psychology	David C. Evans	Psychology & UX
44	The Aesthetic of Play	Brian Upton	Psychology & UX
45	Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games and Their Impact on the People who Play Them	Jamie Madigan	Psychology & UX
46	Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience	Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi	Psychology & UX
47	Game Programming Patterns	Robert Nystrom	Misc
48	Directing Video Games: 101 Tips for Creative Leaders	Brian Allgeier	Misc
49	Video Game Law: Everything you need to know about Legal and Business Issues in the Game Industry	S. Gregory Boyd	Misc
50	Maximizing Game Feel Through Sound: A Composer/Sound Designer’s Approach to Upgrading your Game’s Impact	Akash Thakkar	Misc
51	Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames	Stephanie Boluk	Misc
52	Mismatch - How Inclusion Shapes Design	Kat Holmes	Accessibility
53	Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing	Wendy Despain	Narrative
54	Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames	Chris Bateman	Narrative
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