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Is there any good books or tutorials on how to get started in games development? I would love to take it as a hobby but the tutorial scene is so saturated I find it hard to cut through the chaff, so it would be nice if someone from this community could recommended a good starting place.

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handmade hero. https://handmadehero.org/

I wouldn't recommend handmade hero, especially to someone who's just getting started. First two weeks of handmade hero could be skipped by just using SDL, rather than rolling out Windows specific windowing, rendering and audio.

I found the Unity-Tutorials from https://unity3d.com/de/learn/tutorials very insightful. They provide a nice starting point. Plus Unity has a big asset-store, which is handy especially if you're on your own.

A bit simpler and great for getting started is Construct3, which is a HTML5-Game-Editor which runs in the browser. They did a great job with the App. https://www.construct.net/

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