Essential GameDev Resources

A curated collection of resources for game developers, organized by category and subcategory for easy navigation.

📋 Overview

This project provides a sleek, dark-themed web interface that organizes helpful resources for game developers. Resources are categorized by topic, making it easy to find tutorials, tools, and references for specific aspects of game development.

⚠️ DISCLAIMER
I do not intend to advertise — this is only subjectively collected information. The resources were taken during the active development of tools and games. Many thanks to the authors of these resources!

Features

• 🎮 Categorized game development resources
• 🔍 Full-text search functionality
• 🌑 Dark mode interface optimized for developers
• 🔄 Latest updates section for newly added resources

👥 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! To contribute:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-resource)
3. Add your resources to resources.json
4. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing resources')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-resource)
6. Open a Pull Request

📁 Project Structure

/
├── index.html                  # Main HTML file for the application
├── app.js                      # JavaScript file for functionality
├── resources
│   ├── categories              # Directory for resource categories
│   │   ├── CSharpProgramming.json
│   │   ├── GeneralShaders.json
│   │   ├── ScreenSpaceShaders.json
│   │   ├── Sounds.json
│   │   ├── Textures.json
│   │   ├── UI-UX.json
│   │   ├── UnityEditor.json
│   │   ├── UnityRuntime.json
│   │   └── VFX.json
│   │
│   ├── images                  # Images folder
│   │   └── ShadowShardTools_Logo_128x128.png
│   │
│   └── categories-list.json    # List of available categories
│
├── updates.json                # Data for the latest updates (potentially dynamic)
├── LICENSE.md                  # MIT License file
└── README.md                   # Optional: A README for project overview and setup

📝 Customizing Resources

Adding New Resources

Add the category.json(in resources/categories) file to add new resources:

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "name": "Category Name",
      "subcategories": [
        {
          "id": "unique-id",
          "name": "Subcategory Name",
          "description": "Description of this subcategory",
          "resources": [
            {
              "title": "Resource Title",
              "url": "https://example.com",
              "description": "Description of this resource"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

After that, add your category to the list in the categories-list.json

Adding Updates

Edit the updates.json file to add new updates:

{
  "updates": [
    {
      "title": "Update Title",
      "description": "What's new in this update"
    }
  ]
}

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgements

• Thanks to all the creators of the resources listed in this collection
• Special thanks to contributors who have helped expand this collection