Game Design & Development Tutorials

Free tutorials and online courses to help you learn game development from experienced industry instructors, for building and designing your own games. Join our community to learn new skills, theory, game dev software, and more. What would you like to learn?

Introduction to Axial Coordinates for Hexagonal Tile-Based Games
With the help of axial and cubic coordinates, this tutorial will explore the creation of the classic Tetris game using hexagonal tiles. The tutorial explains...
Juwal Bose
15 Aug 2017
Tile-Based Games
How Tuts+ Has Helped People in Their Careers
Here's a look at how some of your fellow learners have used the skills they've learned on Envato Tuts+ to help them make progress in their careers.
Andrew Blackman
1 Aug 2017
News
Adobe Alternatives: Animation Software
Welcome to the final entry in our series exploring the creative software we have at our disposal outside the familiar world of Adobe. In this article we’ll...
Kezz Bracey
1 Aug 2017
Animation
Basic 2D Platformer Physics, Part 8: Slopes
In this part we'll be implementing the collision with slopes or other custom tiles, adding one-way slopes, and making it possible for the game object to...
Daniel Branicki
20 Jul 2017
Platformer
Basic 2D Platformer Physics, Part 7: Slopes Groundwork
In this part we'll lay down the groundwork needed to add support for slopes and other kinds of custom tiles to the game's physics.
Daniel Branicki
18 Jul 2017
Platformer
Adobe Alternatives: Pixel Art Applications
In this article we'll be looking at five alternative applications for pixel art, and the tools they include that can help pixel artists along.
Kezz Bracey
17 Jul 2017
Pixel Art
SpriteKit Basics: Putting It All Together
In this post we'll build a simple game from scratch. Along the way, we'll touch on some of the most important aspects of the SpriteKit library.
James Tyner
13 Jul 2017
iOS SDK
Introduction to Vuforia on Unity for Creating Augmented Reality Applications
This tutorial is going to cover how to implement a basic augmented reality application with Vuforia SDK on Unity. Throughout the tutorial, you are going to...
Dogacan Bilgili
13 Jul 2017
Augmented Reality
Grab 16 Free Stock Photos and Design Assets From Envato Elements
Download 16 free images and design assets, to give a small taste of what Envato Elements has to offer. They all have a simple, flexible single-use license.
Andrew Blackman
13 Jul 2017
News
Balancing a Closed Economy in Multiplayer Games
Read about the basic building blocks of a multiplayer economy, and how designers keep them balanced.
Kyle Speaker
5 Jul 2017
Multiplayer
Now Available on Envato Elements: Unlimited Stock Photos
Welcome to unlimited stock photos on Envato Elements! Along with everything else, you now get access to 240,000 high-quality images to download.
Andrew Blackman
26 Jun 2017
News
How to Create a Low Poly Floating Island in C4D
Learn Cinema 4D quickly and easily by creating a Floating Island Landscape. Follow this tutorial step by step for use in video games, graphic design and...
Jonathan Lam
20 Jun 2017
Low-Poly