video game design and development

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.

Mr. Walters is a teacher teaching game design. He utilizes gamestar mechanic and Portal 2. Interesting post about iterative design using Portal 2.

This Ben 10 game lets you build your own action games or play millions of games made by other players. The easy and intuitive level editor lets you quickly build awesome levels to challenge your favorite Ben 10 aliens.

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 tutorial will guide you through the process of creating a platform game including gravity, vertical speed, collisions, etc.

This video teaches you how to make a platform game, including how to use gravity, how to use jumping, and everything else that you would need to make a platformer game.

Sploder is an online game creator. Create fun games that you can publish and share with friends. Sploder provides a variety of game building tools including a platform builder, physics game builder, retro arcade game builder, shooter, 3d adventure builder.

There're lots of cool sprites here. You have fruit and vegetable sprites, treasure sprites (genies?), animal sprites, and more! The page also has links to other pages on this website - the other pages have lots of enemy sprites that you can use, too.

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.

Learn how to incorporate external sensors and input devices into your Scratch projects. We'll examine a variety of projects, utilizing different input devices, that participants can remix and share.

A collection of projects for Let's Get Physical with Scratch: Sensors, Robots & Consoles BYOD session at #ISTE13. More @ http://techkim.wikispaces.com/cs4all.

This article by Sharon Boller rebuts Ruth Clark's points regarding the ineffectiveness of games to teach.

This is like the Teacher's Edition text for use with gamestar mechanic. It includes lesson plans, guides to each quest, and much more.

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.

This website is the Gamemaker Community. You can share your games with other players, get tips and tricks from other game makers, learn how to make your game better, and chat with other players on this forum. This website also has a FAQ page that can help you with your game.

This site provides an introduction to interactive fiction and some guidance in terms of downloading and playing text based adventure / interactive fiction games.

textadventures.co.uk provides a web based and desktop (Windows only) tool for creating text based adventures (interactive fiction). The stie also serves as an online community to share your creations.

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

This is a very helpful video tutorial on how to make a platformer game in Game Maker 7, but it does also apply to Game Maker 8. It goes through the basics by actually showing you how to make the objects on-screen.