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This is a good article about video game and design.

This is a great post about the history of Visual Programming Languages. The author also has produced an infographic about different visual programming languages like Scratch, Alice, Kodu Game Lab, Stencyl, etc. and their special abilities.

As a novice gamer, I find this site so helpful. It gives its reader a play by play for everything in game design! This site has a section for everything you can possibly imagine! Topics from Status to Story. You should defiantly check out this site and maybe even add to it!

This website explains how to set up everything in a Portal 2 game that you create, so if you miss any class by pull outs or something else, like myself- you could try so learn it on here

READ THIS I U LIKE MINECRAFT!!!! this link will bring you to a website were you can download adventure mod packs. They are a ton of fun.Go to the website to read more. FYI the gameplay will be much smoother if you have a gaming computer.

To new spark users this site will help with everything you need to know including videos and a chat room. There is some to help with every aspect of a game you want to build on the Xbox one.

If you are new to minecraft, then this will help you play the game and understand all of the crafting recipes in the game when you are playing survival.

On this website, if you look on the left, there's a link called Gamepedia Forums (under gamepedia) to add a Suggestion and/or request. It's kind of like Eco forum, except you can do DIFFERENT GAMES OTHER THAN MINECRAFT

This is a good guide for new people to minecraft. This can be helpful to others who are not sure how to play, that teaches you the basics,and how to survive the first night. I believe that this guide would be great for our students also because it will encourage more people to play minecraft and see if they like it and enjoy it. Finally, this might eventually help people start to build their own things and adventures or mini games! I hope this helps new players!

This site is actually a teacher's site for their own class. The resources listed on the side have information on different programs and sprites that can be done. I think this is helpful because it is another game design class and this may be helpful to learn from.

Awesome maple story Sprite Sheet

RealTutsGML has lots of tutorials, whether it be making an RPG in GameMaker, the basics in Java, or a platformer in Java. His site is absolutely amazing, and I learned so much from it.

This article talks about Unreal Engine 4, a professional game engine that I hope to learn and use for my 20% time project. Unreal Engine 4 is used by many developers around the world to create great graphic intensive games, and I hope to do the same and take full utilization of this awesome tool.

This site provides an introduction to interactive fiction and some guidance in terms of downloading and playing text based adventure / interactive fiction games.

This post discusses three tools used to design and write interactive fiction. The tools range in difficulty.

This video shows the basic format used in creating an interactive story / text based adventure using the Inform software. The video is great as it definitely provides the viewer with the belief that creating a text based adventure with this tool is definitely viable!

Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world's best-known writers of IF.

This is like the Teacher's Edition text for use with gamestar mechanic. It includes lesson plans, guides to each quest, and much more.

Guest blog post by Marianne Malmstrom on Net Family News website. Great insight on using Minecraft in education.

I think this site could be useful for all sorts of reasons. First of all, this particular page offers a way for characters to maybe move their mouth if they are talking, or move their legs while walking.