Mostly a link dump. Mini Games for Ideas on game mechanics - https://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/ https://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/ - https://abagames

Mostly a link dump. Mini Games for Ideas on game mechanics - https://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/ https://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/ - https://abagames.github.io/action-mini-game-mechanic-tags/index.html https://abagames.github.io/action-mini-game-mechanic-tags/in... Gameboy Development on restricted hardware (make something fun without a huge focus on graphics) - https://gbdev.io/ https://gbdev.io/ - https://hh.gbdev.io/ https://hh.gbdev.io/ Developers in the South Korea area if you're trying to find people to mentor / intern with. - https://www.gamedevmap.com/index.php?country=South%20Korea&state=&city=&query=&type= https://www.gamedevmap.com/index.php?country=South%20Korea&s... Dwarf Fortress to make you feel like you accomplish nothing and other people are so productive its ridiculous (mild sarcasm, DF has lots of neat simulationist ideas, and "Toady" is ¯¯\_@©_/¯¯ organized. The dev map is crazy to look at. Like, it makes you feel vaguely insane.) - https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ - https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html People trying to figure out what a "fun" game even means in terms of Live Action RolePlaying (mileage may vary on applicability to Space Zero and digital games) - https://analoggamestudies.org/2014/10/o-jogo-do-bicho-pushing-the-boundaries-of-larp-in-brazil/ https://analoggamestudies.org/2014/10/o-jogo-do-bicho-pushin... - https://petterkarlsson.se/2013/03/19/the-monitor-celestra-battlestar-galactica-larp/ https://petterkarlsson.se/2013/03/19/the-monitor-celestra-ba... Games in terms actual militaries on Earth and the insights for modern day conflicts (that often get ignored by superiors) - https://warontherocks.com/2019/04/how-does-the-next-great-power-conflict-play-out-lessons-from-a-wargame/ https://warontherocks.com/2019/04/how-does-the-next-great-po... Technical stuff if you want "graphical resolution" - https://learnopengl.com/Introduction https://learnopengl.com/Introduction - https://www.learnopengles.com/android-lesson-one-getting-started/ https://www.learnopengles.com/android-lesson-one-getting-sta... - https://webglfundamentals.org/ https://webglfundamentals.org/ - https://webgl2fundamentals.org/ https://webgl2fundamentals.org/ Shadertoy, gaze upon the abyss of shader development and 100,000 shaders (iq's stuff is absurd what's accomplished in a shader) - https://www.shadertoy.com/results?sort=newest https://www.shadertoy.com/results?sort=newest - https://www.shadertoy.com/user/iq https://www.shadertoy.com/user/iq Inigo Quilez - MATH ... who wrote Shadertoy - https://iquilezles.org/articles/ https://iquilezles.org/articles/ Scryfall, 30,000 Magic the Gathering cards, and 30 years of game design mechanic development - https://scryfall.com/search?as=grid&order=name&q=%28game%3Apaper%29 https://scryfall.com/search?as=grid&order=name&q=%28game%3Ap... SteamDB, to look at the 800 games that get release "every, single, week" and how few get "any" signups. - https://steamdb.info/upcoming/?lastweek&sort=peak_desc https://steamdb.info/upcoming/?lastweek&sort=peak_desc