Reddit reviews The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, Second Edition
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Highly recommend this book if you don't have it already.
And watch tons of GDC talks (free).
These are some I can immediately think of right now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWXsmnlmADc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPy2hytwDLM
Production wise Unreal Engine official has so much learning material, courses, open sourced projects for you to learn. All free. Honestly for beginner there isn't much to spend money on, because game engine company like Epic has made so much money they invested a ton in return to further promote their engine. You just need patience.
Maybe get a Houdini Indie license? That's a rabbit hole you might want to think twice of.
And there're a lot of good stuff on Udemy, also very cheap.
Jesse Schell's "The Art of Game Design" is incredibly informative. Also Mark Brown's YouTube channel is tremendously educative.
Game development, here are some theory books:
Art of Game Design
Play Matters