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PCGamer article about the release of two new (as of Oct 2012) Interactive Fiction authoring tools.

Unity Training is a free program that helps you do everything from making a simple keyboard game to a 3d game with unity. They have made many instructional videos and have seen over 3.5 million views. It is great to learn about game design and design your own game.

This sprite resource provides hundreds of sprite sheets that can be used for gamemaker. It has topics relating to games, and has topics in alphabetical order. This website is really useful for gamemaker games as it can be used for the adventure games

This post contains many useful tricks you can use when creating your game. For example, it gives you tips on how to make your game quicker and more efficient to run. It also helps you on what sprites you should use to make your game better.

To change things up, this isn't a sprite page. This is a tutorial page for gamemaker that shows many different step/code relevant things.

SpriteLand is a resource for your graphic projects. We have plenty of free graphics/sprites for use in your use. We also have fun animations, games and webcomics for you to enjoy. Play and have fun with our collection ofgames; immerse yourself in the onlineanimations andwebcomics; and enhance your own projects with thegraphics section.

blog post by David Wees describing the process of creating a Choose Your Own Adventure game using google forms.

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!

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 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.

This looks like it will help me with my sounds in the current game i am making. Try it out and please give feedback.

This is a useful resource for beginners in Game Maker, showing all the different things the program is capable of. It's also good for people who aren't sure whether they want to buy it or not, because it describes the program very well and gives a review of it before the tutorial starts.

This guy is great for Game Maker walkthroughs!

'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!

This is the site where the GameMaker community resides. Publish your games here to share them with the rest of the community. Play and rate games created by other GameMaker users.

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.

9 year old Caine Monroy built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad's used auto parts store. Check it out. This has a lot to teach us all about game design!!!

this shows you everything from game art to programming, and shows links to other sites with extensive info. It shows more than enough enough info than you need to really know, so it is useful for an online resource.

Twine allows you to design and write interactive fiction / text based adventures. Twine provides a graphic interface that links the parts of your stories together and provides a map that can change based on the organization / reorganization of the elements of your story. The completed story is outputted as a text based adventure that can be shared and played online.

This blog post does a nice job of defining flow and fiero, two key concepts for game designers to keep in perspective.