Game Dev Hub
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Welcome to the Game Dev Hub, your ultimate resource for all things game development. Created and maintained by Heathen Engineering, this knowledge base provides comprehensive insights, practical guides, and powerful toolkits to help you build better games.
Whether you're a hobbyist, indie developer, or a seasoned professional, our resources are designed to support your creative and technical journey. From general game development concepts to specific toolkits and platform guides, you’ll find everything you need to bring your game ideas to life.
While our premium tools and assets are available for purchase, this Knowledge Base and our Discord community are free for everyone to use, ensuring that all game developers, no matter the budget, can benefit from our resources.
A concise roadmap to jumpstart your game development journey. It covers essential skills, best practices, and practical guides—from coding fundamentals and engine selection to advanced techniques in testing, publishing, and beyond. If you're ready to transform your passion into a career, this is your starting point for mastering the art and science of game development.
Simplify Steamworks integration with our Toolkit for Steamworks SDK. Easily implement features like Achievements, Workshop, Multiplayer, and Steam Cloud with robust, ready-to-use modules.
If it can be done with Valve’s Steamworks, you can do it faster, easier, and more reliably with our Toolkit. Hundreds of successful games have shipped with it — check out some on our page.
A comprehensive collection of tools designed to streamline common tasks in Unity game development. From realistic physics like ballistics and buoyancy, to intuitive UX systems like drag-and-drop and tooltips, our toolkit helps Unity developers save time and improve gameplay mechanics. Build better games faster with powerful, flexible tools for a wide range of needs.
Our Toolkit for Unreal offers easy-to-integrate systems for RPGs and inventory-based games:
Index Grid System: Build flexible, grid-based UIs with draggable, rotatable items and layer support.
Dialogue System: Branching dialogues for dynamic conversations, easily compatible with save systems.
Both tools are in progress and available first to GitHub Sponsors and Patreons.