When I started to build my career in the gaming industry six years ago, I often wondered about game development. Starting from finding a common understanding of how online games are developed and operated, to private questions such as how best to advertise a particular game. Then there was little structured information on the creation and promotion of games , the newcomer to understand and find the answers was extremely difficult. Virtually the only source of information was own experience and advice from more experienced colleagues. Now the situation has changed dramatically. Information on the gaming industry is so much that you risk to just drown in it. In order to simplify the process of obtaining the knowledge I need , I structured and made notes for myself on all sources of information about game devs . Further in the article I offer all this information in a convenient form for general use.

Game development sites

Specialized Internet resources have always been one of the easiest ways to get information. If you have not found the article you need, you can always ask on the forum or in the comments to posts on a related topic. And even have a chance to get an answer!
Under the spoiler, you will find a table in which I listed the most popular Russian game development resources with brief personal notes on each.
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Facebook Communities

It so happened that Facebook became the platform for the crowd of people from the gaming industry. Vkontakte and LinkedIn also have gamedev communities, but they are less tusovny. Therefore here I will provide links to groups in FB.

Profile literature

There are few Russian-language game-development literature - just a couple of books on marketing in games from Russian authors and several translations of the most famous foreign books on game design. It is worth noting that there is a lot of English literature and most people from gamedev read it in the original. Today we are talking only about Russian-language resources, so under the spoiler I present to your attention books in Russian.

Conferences

Another way to gain new knowledge, and most importantly new acquaintances in the gaming industry, is to participate in specialized events: conferences, exhibitions, competitions. The most famous are DevGAMM, White Nights, before it was a GDC. But this is only the tip of the iceberg. There are many other specialized events, new ones constantly appear. To keep track of all of them and understand exactly which ones it would be useful for you to go to, I prepared a list of catalogs of such events.

Education

The above is essentially self-education. And there is also a comprehensive professional education in the field of game design and management of online gaming projects. Currently, there are three educational institutions in Moscow that provide the following services: RealTime School, Scream School and the Higher School of Business Informatics of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (VSHBI). Traditionally, under the spoiler, my notes about education in these places.



This concludes the review of useful resources on how to learn to make games. If there is something to add to my lists, then write in the comments - I’ll be happy to add to the article marked upd and a link to the author of the material.

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