This is a list of links to resources I’ve found helpful. All of these are 100% free to access/use unless explicitly stated otherwise.

Tools

• Engines: Godot
• Music: LMMS
• 3D Modeling: Blender
• Vector graphics: Inkscape
• Cross compilers: OSXCross, XCode target table
• Search engines:: searx

Libraries

• Godot: Godot Rust, Heightmap Terrain

Assets

• Everything: OpenGameArt.org
• Sound/Music/Samples: Freesound

Documentation / analyses / guides / articles / …

AKA “I really need another way to categorize this”.

3D Rendering

• LearnOpenGL
• Physically Based Rendering in Filament
• DOOM (2016) - Graphics Study
• Introduction to Acceleration Structures
• Per-Object Motion Blur
• Pre-rendered Backgrounds & Depth Compositing
• Low-Level Thinking in High-Level Shading Languages
• View Frustum Culling
• Optimized View Frustum CullingAlgorithms for Bounding Boxes

ECS

• Building an ECS #2: Archetypes and Vectorization
• ECS FAQ

Multiplayer

• Source Multiplayer Networking
• Latency Compensating Methods in Client/Server In-game Protocol Design and Optimization

Interpreters

• value representation in javascript implementations

OS Dev

• RISC-V instruction cheat sheet
• Agner’s x86 instruction tables
• Writing an OS in Rust
• Linux System Call Quick Reference
• Microsoft FAT Specification
• Executable and Linkable Format (ELF)
• Acronyms relevant to Executable and Linkable Format (ELF)
• [OASIS Open Standards][doc oasis open standards]

Web

• badssl

Other

• Shareware Amateurs vs. Shareware Professionals
• In-depth: Matrices, rotation, scale and drifting
• The Myth of RAM
• General Game Design
• The No Twinkie Database
• Beware of the Performance of RW Locks
• Lua 5.3 Bytecode Reference
• IEEE Standard 754 for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic
• HOWTO: Devuan ROOT on ZFS and MultiBoot
• Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It’s a Seductive Mirage
• EasyPeasyMethod

Funsies

• Shadertoy