This is a tutorial on Youtube about GameMaker. This resource could definitely help a beginner who is new to GameMaker, and needs to no the basics about programming, rooms, sprites, sounds, etc.
Playfic is an online community that lets you write, remix, share, and play interactive text-based games with the world. The site includes tutorials on creating your own text-based adventure games.
Code Spells is a game, now in beta, that teaches basic Java programming through a game. The game has an RPG element and in order to cast spells, the player must 'program' their character to cast.
This blog post features interactive fiction authoring tools used to create interactive fiction (i.e. text based adventure games. ) The tools featured are: twine, Inform7, TADS, Quest, and ADRIFT.
Whilst surfing the web, I found not another sprite page, but a forum containing MANY sprite page links! Individual sprite pages are useful, but this is a solid block of links leading to different sprite, background, etc pages! The guy who posted this forum is quite helpful to us who are too lazy to look for pages ourselves.
The Scholastic Level Up program offers curriculum for grades 7 - 12 in video game design across the curriculum. The program focuses on the use of Gamestar Mechanic and Activate
This wiki is a storehouse of resources, ideas and fun stuff for a small group of educators using video games with their students. It's pretty Minecraft focused at the moment, but I'm sure that will change. Check out the Minecraft Club Hub wiki to see what we're learning while we play!
These tutorials are all for Game Maker. The tutorials should help you start building games with the software and learn how the scripting works. They have small script examples.
Interested in creating a Choose your Own Adventure Game? You can do it using google forms and the page navigation feature thanks to the logic branching capabilities. Game on!
The STEM Video Game Challenge is running through March. Participants can register now and utilize a number of free game design tools to create their own game or submit a design document with an idea for a new game. The contest is open to US residents in grades 6 through 12.
This page points you to several different sites that will help you create your own games : Platform Creator, Physics Puzzle Maker, The Algorithm Crew. and Classic Shooters