Resources

K-12 Resources

description Introductory Game Software Brochure

description Resource Guide 2019

Resources

link Start Making Games website

Unreal Engine 4

One of the primary game engines used right now for 3D game development, featuring a strong C++ usage and various tools such as blueprints to streamline development.

Unity3D

One of the more accessible game engines used for game development, with C# as the primary code language and various tools and plugins to develop both 2D and 3D games.

CryEngine

Godot

Stride

How to use Xenko on Lab Computers:

  1. Click “download package” from this website.
  2. Right click the downloaded .nupkg and unzip it with 7zip
  3. Go to the lib folder and click on “Xenko.GameStudio.exe”. It may take a little bit to load for the first time.

Amazon Lumberyard

Game Maker Studio

C++: The language of choice for various engines, including Unreal Engine 4.

C#: Another language used by several engines, including Unity3D Engine.

Latest C# Resources for Unity:

Blender

Maya

3DS Max

Poliigon (textures and materials)

Krita

Inkscape (Vector)

OpenToonz

FreeSound

Free Music Archive

Cakewalk (Digital Audio Workstation)

Kenney

Teams usually use Git for collaboration. A few popular Git clients are:

Some Git hosting sites:

Jobs

link Local Game Companies

link GameDevMap (Maryland)