video game design and development

This site is quite similar to the one that I posted before. One huge difference is, although it does have less sprites, it also has sounds, backgrounds and many other things like that. One special thing also on this site is custom sprites. My previously posted site only has videogame sprites. This site has some sprites people custom made from their favorite show, comic, etc. It could be very useful to you!

These sprites are the right sprites for your game!

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.

This site has links to a number of articles related to utilizing Role Playing Games as a vehicle to teach / encourage creative writing.

Interesting article from the Wall Street Journal. The article speaks to the idea that research shows positive effects of gaming on the brain.

From YoYoGames Wiki Game Maker Scripts are used in Game Maker to execute code. A Game Maker script is basically a function, capable of taking arguments in, and returning a certain return value. The advantage of scripts over regular pieces of code is that they could be performed more than once, saving file size, memory, and also making the code simpler to read, understand, and edit.

Thanks to Jacob for this one... Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends. This track teaches JavaScript and leads you to creating games with JavaScript.

The site describes how the portal and portal2 can be used for creativity in game design and development. This site is valuable because this year in class we will be learning how to use portal and portal 2 and this webpage can be used to aid students that do not understand the game

The site describes how the portal and portal2 can be used for creativity in game design and development. This site is valuable because this year in class we will be learning how to use portal and portal 2 and this webpage can be used to aid students that do not understand the game.

This website is a list of the top 100 games today.This is valuable because it gives you plenty of ideas of that games you can play. You get also get game ideas for games you make.

This is a list of 21 good tips for designing adventure games. Not all of the tips really pertain to the students in Mr. Isaacs' game design and developement class, but most are good to keep in mind when designing a game

This episode of +Teachers Teaching Teachers was recorded in Minecraft. We were Livecasting from +Joel Levin's / @MinecraftTeachr 's server with +Liam O'Donnell / @liamodonnell , Chad Sansing / @chadsansing , +Diana Maliszewski / @MzMollyTL , and +Denise Colby / @Niecsa .

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.

Teacher website to support video game development course

MinecraftEdu is the collaboration of a small team of educators and programmers from the United States and Finland. We are working with Mojang AB of Sweden, the creators of Minecraft, to make the game affordable and accessible to schools everywhere. We have also created a suite of tools that make it easy to unlock the power of Minecraft in YOUR classroom.

Tutorials teaching how to program using GML for Game Maker.

This youtube video will show you step by step how to find and create an animated image from a sprite sheet.

This wiki includes many links to images, sounds, etc. that can be used based on creative commons or creator permission

This is an interesting article about new games, and what people do before they buy them. This article show that people use the internet more and more these days to see if a game is worth buying. Game development companies like EA and Ubisoft are taking advantage of this. You should read this article, because it is informative and interesting

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.

With AT&T's support, GameDesk is taking its model nationwide, helping to improve student outcomes across the country. "Up until now we have only been able to support schools here in LA. With AT&T's support, we're going to be able to scale up and get these new learning tools out there for everyone," explained Lucien Vattel, founder and executive director of GameDesk.

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.