Awesome Devblogs

Here's a quick collection of links to game developer blogs and/or portfolios that I've found interesting. This repository serves two purposes:

Writing down cool people (and companies) that do cool things
Showcasing various ways to showcase your work

To help showcase different types of portfolios, I've split the list into those that are strictly portfolios, while others are portfolios with a blog attached. Company websites are also included in their own section, reflecting how larger organizations differ in voice and presentation.

Contents

Awesome Devblogs

Portfolio

Portfolio websites focus on introducing a person and their past work.

Anton Palmqvist - Simple and elegant portfolio website
- Mirror's Edge: Catalyst
Ben Porter - Portfolio site w/ project-centric homepage
- Full Project List - a table of all notable past projects, small/personal and large/commercial
Freya's stuff (Freya Holmer) - Math Demiurge known for "Shapes" and "Shader Forge". Highlights current/past/side projects and talks.
Jack Humbert - One-pager landing page for socials and portfolio
Jenn Sandercock - Personal portfolio site with cute and on-brand food theme
- About Jenn - Mini-bio and interactive game bibliography with sorting, filtering, and detail views
Lucas Meijer - One-pager landing page for socials and portfolio (again)
- C++, C# and Unity (this site was previously a blog site, so some posts are still available)
Lithish - Landing page with links to games and art portfolios + blog coming soon
- Xan Farley's Portfolio - Two column format with cover art on the left and brief descriptors on the right
Natalie Burke - One-pager timeline of past works for portfolio
- Unity, Lead Technical Artist

Portfolio and/or Blog

Developer blogs explore past (or present!) problems encountered during development and/or provide tutorial content on solving specific needs. They also often contain a section for showcasing the developer's past works or projects.

Adrian Courrages - Performs in-depth graphics studies on recent games
- Metal Gear Solid V - Graphics Study
- DOOM (2016) - Graphics Study
Alan Zucconi - Quick tutorials and breakdowns of short concepts + portfolio
- Inverse Kinematics in 2D
Alexander Ameye - Blog covering various specific graphical techniques or tools
- 🌀 Circular menus in the Unity Editor
Alex Forsythe - Text-heavy portfolio site covering his personal, commercial, and other works
- Blueprints vs. C++ - How They Fit Together and Why You Should Use Both
- @AlexForsythe on YouTube
Amos - Known for Rust and deep-dives on various systems
- A short (and mostly wrong) history of computer networking
Amit Patel - Interactive explorations of common problem spaces in game development
- Hexagonal grid reference
- Tower Defense pathfinding
ben 🌱 ui - "As I learn new things in Unreal Engine, I like to write them down so I don't forget. 🌱" + portfolio
- Introduction to C++ UIs in Unreal
Bob Nystrom - Language design posts w/ a spice of personal posts
- What the Hero Sees: Field-of-View
Bronson Zgeb - Sharing Unity developer tips and tricks
- Build a better collider importer with Asset Processors
Bruce Dawson - Dives deep into profiling and various fringe topics
- Tricks With the Floating-Point Format
Erin Catto - Developer of Box2D. Posts and publications around physics and "low-level" concepts.
- How to Transform a Plane
- Ragdolls - GDC2012
Evan Todd - Breaks down common problems in games via the "Poor Man's x" Series + portfolio
- The Poor Man's 3D Camera
- The Poor Man's Character Controller
Eevee - Blog, dev blog, portfolio, and pretty much everything else that's relevant to their work or public life.
- ⚠️ Note: This website contains links (with warnings) to content not safe for viewing by minors.
- Particle wipe generator
- Coaxing 2D platforming out of Unity
Erik Nordeus - Open source implementations and tutorials for games and simulation
- How to Tell if You Have Passed a Waypoint? - part of "Use math to solve problems in Unity with C#"
Fabien Sandlard - Analyzes and explores game engines and low-level functionality + portfolio
- Quake 3 Source Code Review
Gabriel Gambetta - Assorted articles on networking, rendering, and writing
- Computer Graphics from scratch
- Fast-Paced Multiplayer
- Fizzlefade
Glenn Fiedler - Deep dives on networking, physics, and common development patterns.
- No longer actively posting here; see Más Bandwidth
- Fix Your Timestep!
- Integration Basics
- Networked Physics in Virtual Reality
Glenn Fiedler @ Más Bandwidth
- Choosing the right network model for your multiplayer game
Internal Pointers - misc. posts on tech, math, IT, etc.
- Writing a custom iterator in modern C++
- Note: One of the few blogs without a portfolio.
Jackson Dunstan
Joe Wintergreen Internet Zone
- Portfolio (separate site)
- Half-life Alyx's Level Design Tools Are Super Great
Liz England - Simple personal site with a plethora of links to works, talks, resume, and resources
- Game Design Library - Library of books on game design, w/o call-outs for her favorites
Michal "Pirat" Kubas - Game artist showcasing environmental and weapon assets + blog.
- Gun modeling for FPP games
MinionsArt Tutorials - A large collection of shader and VFX tutorials, initially for BIRP, and now for URP
- World Position Radius Effects (in Shader Graph)
- Note: This site is more of a hub/collection - each page links out to Patreon/YouTube for the actual content.
Nicky Case - Pioneer of interactive articles (a.k.a. explorable explanations)
- Sight & Light - how to create a 2D visibility/shadow effects for your game
- To Build a Better Ballot
Noel Berry - Portfolio and mini-blog
- Procedural Generation - The Dungeon
Rami Ismail (Levelling The Playing Field) - Sharing lessons learned from developing games as a business, not just a hobby
- Getting Feedback
Simon Trümpler + Blog - Landing page with links out to other platforms for talks/portofolio/blog etc.
- GTA V – Underestimated Glow - Mini-VFX breakdown of how GTA V implements its glowing red traffic lights
Tom Looman - Collection of original tutorials and resources for Unreal Engine
- Unreal Engine Game Optimization on a Budget and Video
Václav Vančura - Design + Development blog, recently focusing on their work at Microsoft
- Visual Studio for Mac 17 Shell

Companies

Company blogs provide players with behind-the-scenes at look at the process. They may also have engineering posts that are relevant to other developers in the industry.

Campo Santo
- Matt Wilde on Visual Effects, Lighting, and Rendering
Chickensoft
- Enjoyable Game Architecture
Godot Engine - Blog - Progress Report
- UID changes coming to Godot 4.4
Red Blue Games
- Animating Top Down 2D Games in Unity
Riot Games Engineering
- Profiling: Measurement and Analysis
- Random Acts of Optimization
Spotify Design - Updates and thoughts around changes to the Spotify UI + UX
- Bringing the Spotify Heart to life
Unity Blog: Technology
- An introduction to IL2CPP internals
Wolfire Games
- ⚠️ WARN: HTTPS not available. HTTP only.
- GDC13 Summary: Animation Bootcamp Part 5/6

One-Off Articles

Contained below is an assorted collections of articles that are not part of a specific blog.

Natalya Shelburne - Practical Color Theory for People Who Code

Platforms

If you're looking to start your own blog, here are some platforms/services that are frequented by the games industry (or adjacent) that provide a space for you to do so.

dev.to - General software engineering platform with a very small game community
Game Developer
- 1500 Archers on a 28.8 by Mark Terrano and Paul Bettner
GameDev.net - A game developer forum with a blog platform
Ludum Dare - Homepage of the Ludum Dare game jam, which has an integrated blogging platform
TIGForums - Blog posts as forum threads on a well-known game development forum

There are other solutions that are less reliant on a platform like Netlify or GitHub Pages, but they will require additional setup on your part.

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To the extent possible under law, Terry Nguyen has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.

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