Game Design & Development Tutorials

Free tutorials and online courses to help you learn game development from experienced industry instructors, for building and designing your own games. Join our community to learn new skills, theory, game dev software, and more. What would you like to learn?

How to Create an Animated Waterfall
Learn a trick to create an animated waterfall with only one texture, inspired by '90s games: perfect for a mobile game!
Matteo Sciutteri
11 Jan 2017
Blender
Basic 2D Platformer Physics, Part 5: Object vs. Object Collision Detection
In this part we'll start working towards making it possible for objects to not only interact physically with the tilemap alone, but also with any other...
Daniel Branicki
5 Jan 2017
Game Physics
Unity 2D Joints: Slider, Relative, Spring, and Friction Joints
This tutorial will focus on explaining how 2D physics joints work in Unity and how to use them to achieve great effects (without sacrificing the game...
Orlando Pereira
28 Dec 2016
Unity 2D
Unity 2D Joints: Distance, Hinge, Target, and Fixed Joints
Unity is a well known, well documented, and very recognised game engine. It's a multi-platform solution, and it also allows you to create games or...
Orlando Pereira
21 Dec 2016
Unity 2D
Redesign Your Display List With Spatial Hashes
A common way to organize your game objects is by putting them all into one big sorted list. This can be very inefficient once you have a large game world...
Omar Shehata
5 Dec 2016
Game Development
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Andrew Blackman
24 Nov 2016
Promotion
Teaching Millions Worldwide: 3,000 Tuts+ Translations Published!
3,000 translations and counting, what a milestone! This post will take a look at the Translation Project, what it’s achieved, and where it’s headed.
Ian Yates
16 Nov 2016
Translation
Using Displacement Shaders to Create an Underwater Effect
Displacing pixels is a simple technique that can produce visually stunning effects. In this tutorial, I'll show you how you can create a realistic underwater...
Omar Shehata
7 Nov 2016
Shaders
Create Clothing for a Character With Blender
Creating clothes for a game character can be difficult, to say the least. In this tutorial, we will use Blender to teach you how to create both fitted and...
Sandra Gerber
1 Nov 2016
Character Design
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Andrew Blackman
18 Oct 2016
Promotion
Building a Beat 'Em Up in Game Maker, Part 3: Combo Attacks, More AI, and Health Pickups
This article will continue the series on developing a Beat Em Up in Game Maker by expanding the abilities of our AI enemies, by introducing a Combo system,...
David Silverman
14 Oct 2016
Platformer
Building a Beat 'Em Up in Game Maker, Part 2: Combat and Basic Enemy AI
This article will focus on creating a dynamic camera, making BattleRegions or areas for combat to take place, and giving the enemies the ability to start...
David Silverman
12 Oct 2016
Platformer