Game Art & Design

Founded in 2003, DiGRA is the premiere international association for academics and professionals who research digital games and associated phenomena. It encourages high-quality research on games, and promotes collaboration and dissemination of work by its members.

ESAC represents major video game console makers, publishers, large and small independent developers as well as national distributors.

Founded in 2010, Full Indie is a Vancouver-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting our local game dev community. We aim to provide independent game creators with opportunities to demo their games, network with other indies, and learn from their community.

The Hand Eye Society is a Toronto not-for-profit dedicated to supporting and showcasing videogames made primarily as a form of creative expression.

TIGA is the network for games developers and digital publishers and the trade association representing the video games industry. Our core purpose is to strengthen the games development and digital publishing sector. We achieve this by campaigning for the industry in the corridors of power, championing the industry in the media and helping our members commercially.

We are a Council of independent Member organisations—a global network that shares common issues, commitments and standards. Members create a unified voice for the global design community and drive a high level dialogue on the leading role design plays in society, culture and the economy. ICoD is the world’s largest representative of professional designer entities.

The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is the world’s largest nonprofit membership organization serving all individuals who create games.

GDC Vault is a trove of in-depth design, technical and inspirational talks and slides from the influencers of the game development industry, taken from over 20 years of the worldwide Game Developers Conferences.

Game Developer was first founded in 1997 as Gamasutra and has strived since its inception to be a leading resource and reference for game development and industry knowledge.

GamesIndustry.biz is the market leading website and community for news and information about the global video games industry. The site has a significant and qualified global audience, with over 130,000 registered users spanning every part of the industry, from design, development, publishing, marketing, distribution or retail all the way through to media, freelance and students. Leading news content, with opinion-forming industry interviews and analysis, are added daily, while the site boasts one of the largest recruitment databases for video games-related roles, and a comprehensive guide to the events that span the games business.

A video game culture festival running since 2004 with a focus on video game culture and independent video game development.

Unity is a cross-platform game engine that has since been gradually extended to support a variety of desktop, mobile, console and virtual reality platforms.

With Unreal Engine, you can bring amazing real-time experiences to life using the world’s most advanced real-time 3D creation tool.

free open source 3D content creation suite featuring tutorials, education, galleries, and links.

A Modelling, Animation and VFX engine used in modern Film and Gaming.

Youtube tutorials from the Feng Zhu Design School

At The Art Society, we inspire, empower, and engage artists everywhere. Whether helping you become a better artist, informing you of the latest happenings in the global art community, or empowering you with the knowledge and tools you will need to land your next job, The Art Society is here to inspire, inform, educate, and recruit.

Concept art, artists, news and inspiration from movies, video games, animation.

Explore a collection of video games interfaces, screenshots, and clips. Take a look at all the fragments that make up a video game, and find inspiration for your designs.

The Game UI Database was created as a free resource for UI/UX Designers in the games industry. It was built to aid in the discovery of new inspiration, and to provide a fast and efficient way of searching for reference materials.