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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?

The Four Elements of Game Design: Part 1
What is a game? What matters when designing one? Here's a look at the elements of game design, and how to ensure your game follows the most fundamental game...
Darran Jamieson
25 Jan 2017
Game Design
Lighting in Unity 5
Unity supports several technologies and components. Some of the key components are the lighting and illumination techniques. In Unity you can illuminate a...
Orlando Pereira and Pedro Pereira
24 Jan 2017
Unity 3D
Show Us What You've Made With Envato for a Chance to Win $250!
Have you created something using a tutorial here on Envato Tuts+ or another Envato product? You can submit it to this month's Made With Envato contest for a...
Andrew Blackman
15 Jan 2017
Promotion
Basic 2D Platformer Physics, Part 6: Object vs. Object Collision Response
In this part we'll use the collision detection mechanism to build a simple but robust physical response between the objects.
Daniel Branicki
12 Jan 2017
Game Physics
How to Create an Animated Waterfall
Learn a trick to create an animated waterfall with only one texture, inspired by '90s games: perfect for a mobile game!
Matteo Sciutteri
11 Jan 2017
Unity
Basic 2D Platformer Physics, Part 5: Object vs. Object Collision Detection
In this part we'll start working towards making it possible for objects to not only interact physically with the tilemap alone, but also with any other...
Daniel Branicki
5 Jan 2017
Game Physics
Unity 2D Joints: Slider, Relative, Spring, and Friction Joints
This tutorial will focus on explaining how 2D physics joints work in Unity and how to use them to achieve great effects (without sacrificing the game...
Orlando Pereira
28 Dec 2016
Unity 2D
Unity 2D Joints: Distance, Hinge, Target, and Fixed Joints
Unity is a well known, well documented, and very recognised game engine. It's a multi-platform solution, and it also allows you to create games or...
Orlando Pereira
21 Dec 2016
Unity 2D
Redesign Your Display List With Spatial Hashes
A common way to organize your game objects is by putting them all into one big sorted list. This can be very inefficient once you have a large game world...
Omar Shehata
5 Dec 2016
Game Development
All Courses Reduced to $3 for Cyber Monday!
You can buy any course on Envato Tuts+ for just $3 on Monday, 28 November 2016. You can choose as many as you want from our library of almost 1,000 courses...
Andrew Blackman
24 Nov 2016
Promotion
Teaching Millions Worldwide: 3,000 Tuts+ Translations Published!
3,000 translations and counting, what a milestone! This post will take a look at the Translation Project, what it’s achieved, and where it’s headed.
Ian Yates
16 Nov 2016
Translation
Using Displacement Shaders to Create an Underwater Effect
Displacing pixels is a simple technique that can produce visually stunning effects. In this tutorial, I'll show you how you can create a realistic underwater...
Omar Shehata
7 Nov 2016
Shaders

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