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This is a link to the recording of Dr. James Gee's webinar on Designing Games for Learning held on 12/8/2011

Yes this site is part blog, but on this site you can download a game maker sprite editor. This is valuable because it can do everything listed on the info part of the site. You can make better games with more sprites because you can have more graphics then just the bunch that came with game maker.

This video is a review of Portal 2, it goes over the basics and the storyline of the game. By watching this you can also learn how to review video games.

There are tons of cool sprites here! Just check out the background section, for example: so many amazing bgs to choose from! I think this is a place where you can find ripped sprites or fan-made sprites from several games (I'm not sure which ones), but if you're looking for some anime-style sprites to incorporate, this is the place to go! :D The pixels themselves are great.

Adventure Game Studio provides the tools to make your own adventure, for free! Bring your story and artwork and slot it in, and let AGS do the rest. Download AGS from the site and start designing your own adventure games.

This is a great website to create animated sprites and pixel art.

I believe that this site is a good site for sprite editing because you can zoom in and add a LOT of detail to a sprite. You get a whole lot of colors to choose from, to create your character. The website has a pretty basic layout and their are the tabs on the left.

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/

The famous adage "do what you love and the money will follow" may not always come true, but it could be an accurate message for video gamers who can learn how to design the next hot game.

Brad Nelson (independent developer of the forthcoming Lone Wolf) will lead a hands-on workshop that provides information on designing and developing a video game. A short lecture will cover the basic design strategies of developing a video game, including the game's purpose and it's intended audience.

BlockStudio: Make games without writing code! This is a valuable website because it gives anyone more freedom and make it more creative without the the difficult tasks of programming it! Make amusing and engaging games without making hard for yourself! You can not only can make your own games on Block Studio you can also mod games to get to know the website more and keep progressing as a game designer and reviewer! Enjoy!

Game Maker tutorials for anyone new to programming and game design. Great set of simple to follow tutorials in using Game Maker.

This was originally posted by Eric, but the link has been updated so I switched to the newer site.

There are many sprite sites out there, and many of them have sprites others don't. So, to save you the trouble of googling multiple sites for a specific sprite, I'm posting a THIRD sprite site. I know of a couple more, too. This one is great because they copied the sprites from their favorite videogames. There are many users, all posting sprites!

This is a site that list 50 of the best game design blogs out there. This is valuable because you have access to a lot of blogs where you can get ideas and valuable information that could be used to your game. This website list the top 50, and that's good because you know you're probably not going to get a blog that goes off topic talking about tacos and benie babies.

The Game Design Tool Kit

Blog post by Matt Roberts on the basics of the Interactive Fiction / Text Based Adventure genre of games.

This site walks you through the basics of adventure games including an Introduction to Interactive Fiction and how to download and play Adventure Games.

Looking Glass is the successor to Storytelling Alice. It was designed to teach computer programming skills to middle school students through digital storytelling. Add characters and objects to your story and drag and drop commands to program the story.

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.

Zatun prides itself of providing the most creative and best quality concept art, concept design and character design for your video game projects.