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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.

Yes, this is a Wikipedia website. But it is valuable. It tells you the history of Game Maker, what it is, and the most valuable part of all, it tells you a little bit about Game Maker language. Can be useful for multiple things in Game Maker

This is a great video that goes over the basics of game maker studio.

This video (and channel) deals with making a simple Platform game using the game maker language. You can see how the D&D actions of GM are translated into code, and how much you can manipulate them to do what you want, instead of being limited by the D&D's format. For someone with no previous experience with GM or coding, these videos can be very useful as an intro to what you can do with the software.

Tutorials teaching how to program using GML for Game Maker.

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.

Ren'Py is a visual novel engine that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell stories with the computer. These can be both visual novels and life simulation games. The easy to learn script language allows you to efficiently write large visual novels, while its Python scripting is enough for complex simulation games. Ren'Py is open source and free for commercial use. It supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Android.

The Pew Research Center reports that approximately 97% of teens play video games in their free time. Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subject-areas have used programming and game design to teach 21st Century skills, but what can an English class do to leverage the potential of game-based learning?

Thanks to Jacob for this resource including 30 free downloadable ebooks that teach a variety of programming languages.

Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, with financial support from the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, Intel Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Google, Iomega and MIT Media Lab research consortia. Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.

A series of educational videos about how to create various things in Project Spark, with a primary focus on the "kode" language that Project Spark uses. By watching these videos you can learn the basics of how to create your own games in Project Spark, as well as some advanced features. Your host is "Mescad', a stay-at-home dad from central Kentucky who loves Computer Science education and enabling creative people to create awesome things in Project Spark. The current production schedule is that a new tutorial video will be uploaded on Monday, Wednesday and Friday each week. Follow @mescad on Twitter or subscribe to this channel to receive notifications when a new video is posted. Comments and questions are always welcome, and I do take requests for videos. Project Spark is a free game creation platform developed by Microsoft's Team Dakota, available on Xbox One, Windows 8, and soon on Xbox 360. Learn more at http://www.projectspark.com/

Here is a brief list about different game development tools such as Construct2, StencylWorks, Adventure game Studio, among others. This blog post is in Spanish.

'Sup everyone! Okay, so I provided this website for GameMaker! Inside, there's tons of links that teach you the basics, and of course, the advanced use, polishing your game, and GameMaker "Language". It's ordered pretty neatly, and is very easy to understand. Please use this website to your heart's content!