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Resources

Primary Engines:

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.

Alternative Engines:

CryEngine

Godot

Xenko

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

Languages:

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:

1. Microsoft .NET 4.x in Unity

2. A guide on Asynchronous programming using Coroutines and TAP.

3. Another resource on Async and Await in Unity.

3D Modeling:

Blender

Maya

3DS Max

2D Art:

Krita