Index of resources

This page is a catch-all index of resources that may be useful to C7 developers, whether technical material, relevant discussion, or similar source code. Please add, remove, or highlight as warranted.

Bold links indicate recommended reading

[!] indicates code/instructions specific to Unity or other engine, but the concepts are applicable

Compiled information

• Summary table of alternatives
• My original proposal document
• Modiki: Independent Game Ideas
• My curated list of relevant GitHub repos

Godot

(be aware of pre-4.0 resources)

Engine

• Docs: Official docs
• Site: Official forum
• Docs: Godot Best Practices
• Docs: Godot C# Style Guide
• Docs: Godot GDScript Style Guide
• Docs: Project Organization
• Docs: Project Settings
• Docs: Your First 2D Game
• Docs: Godot Beginner's Guide (unofficial)
• Tutorials: GDQuest Godot Tutorials
• Course: Learn GDScript From Zero
• Video: Learn the GODOT Game Engine in 50 Minutes
• Videos: Godot Engine Tutorials
• Video: Every Node in Godot
• Reference: Godot Tutorials - List of Video and Written Tutorials
• Video: GodotCon Online January 2021
• Thread: Godot guide for Unity developers
• Thread: Quiver: Godot 4 indie platform

Feature demos

• Source: godot-awesome-splash
• Video: How to Make an Isometric Tilemap Godot Tutorial 3.2
• Video: Design and Code a Title Screen in Godot 3 (tutorial)
• Thread: How to save and load the game using resources
• Thread: Godot 4 video tutorial on RPG inventory system
• Thread: Custom nodes/systems that I used to finish my game

Projects

• Videos: Godot Mobile RPG
• Videos: Tower Defense in Godot
• Videos: Godot Action RPG Series
• Videos: Learn the Godot Engine and Create a Platform Game
• Videos: Make Your First 2D Game with Godot
• Videos: Dedicated Multiplayer Server
• Source: Godot Open RPG
• Source: Godot Logger
• Thread: Modot, a C# mod loader
• Thread: Plugin to link C# events in the Inspector
• Thread: Zelda-inspired inventory system & UI
• Thread: GDScriptify documentation tool
• Reference: awesome-godot (dated)

Programming skills

C#/.NET

• Videos: C# Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners
• Videos: HTL Leonding C# Course 2020-21
• Course: Codecademy C#
• Course: CSharp-From-Zero-To-Hero
• Docs: Microsoft C# Documentation index
• Docs: Microsoft C# Tutorials
• Docs: Microsoft C# Programming Guide
• Courses: Microsoft Learn .NET modules
• Article: Building C# Objects Dynamically (ExpandoObject)
• Articles/Book: C# in Depth
• Thread: Tasks and Await/Async in .NET
• Tutorials: Learn C# by Building a Simple RPG
• Reference: awesome-dotnet
• Reference: awesome-dotnet-core
• Reference: awesome-dotnet-core-applications

Game programming

• Articles: Amit's Game Programming Information
• Article: Vector Math for Game Dev Beginners
• Thread: Networking of a turn-based game

Development processes

Software Engineering

• Docs: GitHub Docs
• Article: A practical guide to writing technical specs
• Videos: Clean Code : Uncle Bob : all lessons
• Reference: programming-principles
• Video: Using Git Like a Pro: Master-Only Workflow, Branching Strategies, and Hacks and transcript/notes

Agile

• Article: When is a User Story “Done?”— Acceptance Criteria and the Definition of “Done”
• Article: A product manager’s guide to release planning
• Article: Super-powered continuous delivery with Git
• Article: Test Driven Development (TDD) for the Masses

Open source

• Articles: Open Source Guides
• Ebook: Producing Open Source Software
• Ebook: The Architecture of Open Source Applications
• Article: Can one person run an open source project alone?

Software architecture & design patterns

Game patterns

• Article: How to Design the Data Structure for a Turn Based Game
• Article: Writing a Game Engine from Scratch - Part 1: Messaging
• Article: What's a way to implement a flexible buff/debuff system?
• Article: Extending Behavior Trees (AI)
• Ebook: Game Programming Patterns
• Videos: Game Programming Patterns [!]

.NET architecture

• Reference: .NET Architecture Guides
• Docs: Logging in C# and .NET
• Docs: Managed Extensibility Framework
• Book: Dependency Injection in .NET
• Source: Stringly.Typed
• Source: MediatR

General architecture

• Reference: System Design Primer
• Articles: Summary of Clean Architecture
• Docs: Refactoring Guru (OO design patterns)
• Articles: S O L I D Principles (OO)
• Videos: SOLID Unity3D [!]
• Reference: awesome-software-architecture
• Reference: awesome-software-architecture (different list)
• Reference: Awesome Domain-Driven Design
• Videos: Event Sourcery Full Course
• Thread: 6 Event-Driven Architecture Patterns

Gamedev skills & resources

(not Godot specific)

Game Design

• Videos: GDC Vault free sessions
• Video: Overcoming analysis paralysis through radical experiments
• Article: Strategy Game UI Dos and Don'ts
• Article: How to Tackle Build Micromanagement Tedium in 4X Games?
• Thread: If you were designing a game like Civilization, what game mechanic would you add?
• Docs: Game Accessibility Guidelines
• Reference: YouTube channels related to game design
• Ebook: Top 5 game derailing mistakes to avoid

Feature demos

• Articles: Undiscovered Worlds terrain generation
• Videos: Mostly Civilized: A Hex-Based 4x Game Engine for Unity [!]
• Tutorials: C# and Shader Tutorials [!]
• Tutorials: Hex Map Tutorials [!]
• Tutorial: Civilization VI Fog of War [!]
• Tutorial: Procedurally Generating Wrapping World Maps in Unity C# [!]
• Tutorial: Isometric Depth Sorting [!]
• Tutorial: Promises for Game Development [!]
• Article: Rules for a Future-Proof 2D Render Order
• Tutorial: Isometric Depth Sorting [!]
• Thread: RPG with procedurally generated worlds
• Source: HexMapLibrary [!]
• Source: UCompile Runtime C# script engine [!]
• Videos: Procedural Terrain Generation [!]

Resources

• Site: GameDev.net
• Source: odin-serializer [!]
• Audio: Civ-themed music (my list)
• Reference: Awesome gaming (and other topics)
• Reference: Complete List of GameFromScratch.com tutorials
• Reference: Guide To Free Game Development
• Tool: Scenario (AI asset generation)

Game case studies & postmortems

• Article: A Very Detailed Dive on Master of Orion 1’s AI
• Articles: Interstellar Space: Genesis
• Articles: Making a space 4X game
• Articles: Three Hundred Mechanics
• Article: The only way to go fast, is to go well (TDD from Factorio)
• Docs: Freeciv Events Tutorial [!]
• Ebook: official modding guide for Humankind [!]
• Article: Chopping Down the Tech Tree Part One and Part Two
• Thread: What are your favorite mechanics in 4X games?
• Thread: How would you solve the problem of colonization cancer?

Civilization Miscellanea

Technical knowledge

• Docs: Civilization Modding Wiki
• Thread: Encyclopedia of Modding
• Thread: Da Rules (editor settings explained)
• Thread: FUBAR Editor Documentation
• Thread: AMB Format Analysis
• Thread: The Civilization III Save Format

Analysis & lore

• Audio: DevGameClub podcast interview with Soren Johnson
• Video: Soren on AI
• Video: Sid Meier's Psychology of Game Design
• Video: Soren Johnson: Theme Is Not Meaning
• Video: Play Early, Play Often: Prototyping Civilization 4
• Video: Soren Johnson and FilthyRobot discuss Old World
• Video: A Civilization 3 Retrospective
• Thread: Procedurally Generated History: paper by Rhye & Soren Johnson
• Article: Soren on diplomacy
• Article: Soren on developing Civ (Civ4 manual)
• Article: The History of Civilization
• Article: Civilization's past and future as told by its lead designers
• Article: Designing Civilization VI 's distinctive districts system
• Article: City management, mayhem and Sid Meier's wisdom: Making Civilization VI
• Thread: What are some conceptual blindspots of the Civilization series of video games?
• Thread: In games like Civilization... should technology need to be "maintained"?
• Thread: In your opinion what would the mythical Civ killer look like?

Other Civ-related projects

Civ3 prior work

• IndieCiv subforum and source
• C3X
• C3CPatchFramework
• Civ3 Show-And-Tell
• Civ 3 Enhanced Map Replays

Other Civ

• FreeCiv website and source
• freeciv-android
• Power of Planets and client source
• Civ2 TOTPP
• Civ II Clone thread
• Modiki: Civ4 SDK
• Call to Power 2 source and Linux port
• C-Evo
• CivOne
• Statebuilder
• Unciv - FOSS Civ V for Android+Desktop
• MaximumCiv
• civ-2d
• PocketCiv

Other open-source projects

Godot

• LegendsOfMajesticSteel
• Whiteboard Software
• Mad Productivity

4X

• OpenSAGE
• OpenSpace4x
• stars-nova
• OpenXcom
• Wesnoth
• Master of Magic Java Rewrite
• VCMI Project (HOMMIII engine)
• Open Realm of Stars

Other games

• Open Source Game Clones
• Games on Github
• OpenRA
• 0ad
• openage
• OpenTTD
• SOSCSRPG
• JRPG
• Shape Of Things That Were

Related Communities

Discord

• Civ3 Single Player
• Civ3 Multiplayer League - Suede's server
• Godot Engine - official
• C# - huge, very active
• C# Inn - project focus
• Code2gether - C# collaboration focus
• Stareye Atlas gamedev community
• Reddit's r/gamedev

Reddit

• https://www.reddit.com/r/godot
• https://www.reddit.com/r/madewithgodot
• https://www.reddit.com/r/indiedev
• https://www.reddit.com/r/4xdev
• https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev
• https://www.reddit.com/r/truegamedev
• https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedevelopment
• https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedesign
• https://www.reddit.com/r/themakingofgames
• https://www.reddit.com/r/devblogs
• https://www.reddit.com/r/csharp
• https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet

Other