People to follow

There are a lot of content creators, Game developers and programme enthusiasts who love to use explore and explain how these programme’s work, Give Advice, Marketing tips and more.

Here are some people, channels, websites, and resources to look at:

Unity

Brackeys

Brackeys has been making Unity Tutorials for over 10 Years, so there is a lot of free tutorials up for grabs. Alongside this, there is also a link to their Assets website for commercial or personal use in your games; either pay what you want or download them for free!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Brackeys

Website: https://brackeys.com/

Asset site: https://devassets.com/

Code Monkey

Code Monkey is a Unity Awards winner for best YouTube Tutorial series, with hundreds of videos on his YouTube Account.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CodeMonkeyUnity

Website: https://unitycodemonkey.com/index.php

Shaders Bible

Covers everything to do with using shaders in Unity in order to create some really cool visual effects; they also sell their Unity Shaders Bible, which is the ultimate guide to mastering shaders, with over 380 pages. Shaders is blending art with programming to produce high-quality graphics.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ushadersbible

Unreal Engine

Tom Looman

Tom makes Unreal Engine Courses & Games and he is a UE5 Consultant.

He has a great website with lots of articles and resources like:

Unreal Engine C++ complete guide
Game optimisation
Save system
Using blueprint system
And lots more!

Website: https://www.tomlooman.com/ue4/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/t_looman

Blender

Grant Grabbit

Grant has 1000’s of videos on his YouTube and also Streams every day at 4pm, where people can join in and learn how to use Blender.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@grabbitt

Website: https://www.gabbitt.co.uk/course-filter/beginner

Blender Guru

Andrew has been using blender since 2003 and has probably the most popular YouTube series for Blender tutorials.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@blenderguru

Website: https://www.poliigon.com/

Imphenzia

Imphenzia makes music, sound effects, game development assets, games, and all sorts.

With over 500 Videos on YouTube.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Imphenzia

Website: https://imphenzia.com/

Roblox Studio

Alvinblox

Is the go-to for Roblox tutorials with Over 44 million video views and more than 190 tutorial videos published.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AlvinBlox

Godot

There is huge library of videos on YouTube, but here is a couple of channels I’ve found to help you with Godot.

Godot Tutorials

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GodotTutorials/videos

Free Code Camp

Free code Camp is all about coding in multiple programmes and languages

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp

Godot Tutorial Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EFKe24X8vI

Kickstarter

Trent Cute

Trent Cute is a Copywriter & Kickstarter Coach at Gentleland; he has some great advice on how to run a successful Kickstarter campaign.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ItsTrentChute

General Advice & Tips

GameDev.TV is a passionate group of instructors helping thousands to start their Game Dev journey with online courses.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Gdevtv

Rick Davidson

Career Coach at Gamedev.TV

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rick_davidson

Jason Thor Hall

You may have seen his YouTube shorts, but he is a lot more than that.

He started in the games industry in 2004 on World of Warcraft Vanilla. He’s worked for Blizzard Entertainment, Amazon Games Studios, the United States Department of Energy, and now works for Pirate Software. He’s got three black badges from DEFCON, two for cryptography, and one for tele phreaking. He’s a programmer, hacker, game developer, and all-around giant nerd.

His website is great and has a ton of resources; he also streams on twitch every day, has some great general advice, and is very funny.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PirateSoftware/shorts

Website: https://www.develop.games/

Matt Hacket

Matt has an amazing web site, filled with tons of resources to help you get started. He is a game dev, doing regular podcasts and has published a book called ‘How to make a video game all by yourself’.

He has made some great cheat sheets like this steam page cheat sheet

Generally, really useful practical advice and tips.

Website: https://www.valadria.com/start-here/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Valadria/featured

Twitter: https://twitter.com/richtaur

Bite me Games

Bite me Games channel has some great general advice, tips and insight into game development.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bitemegames/featured

Marketing

Chris Zukowski

He is an Indie marketing expert, game marketing consultant and strategist; he has helped Games-as-a-Service companies, indie publishers, and small to single-person teams understand their audience and communicate with them in a more personal way. He specializes in optimizing your marketing for the Steam algorithm, creating fantastic Steam pages that sell themselves, and setting up Email marketing campaigns that your fans will look forward to opening.

He has a few freebees too; like a free course on setting up a steam page and a free digital book ‘60 Game marketing mistakes you should avoid’

Website: https://howtomarketagame.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdventureMtn