game design youtubers

This note last modified August 27, 2026

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• General Design
  • GDC — The Game Developers Conference. Their stuff is usually longer and pretty in-depth
  • Game Maker’s Toolkit
  • Razbuten — has a brilliant “gaming for non-gamers” series about what it’s like to play as a new player
  • Extra Credits — Especially their older stuff
  • Adam Millard
  • Snoman Gaming
• Programming Deep Dives
  • AI and Games
  • Sebastian Lague
  • Acerola
  • Freya Holmer
  • CodeParade
  • 2swap — not games specific, but algorithms that often apply to games
• Development Vloggers
  • JuniperDev
  • Thin Matrix
• Game Industry and Documentaries
  • NoClip
  • People Make Games
  • Ahoy
• Game Philosophy and video essays
  • Jacob Geller — Brilliant video essays, maybe my favorite channel on Youtube
  • Pixel A Day
  • Writing on Games
  • Daryl Talks Games — Psychology and a bit of Philosophy