video game design and development

Activate offers a variety of challenges encouraging students to solve problems through game design using Game Maker.

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

Use the free Sprite Maker tool to create your own sprites. It is really easy to use and you can very quickly create a character with his own unique outfit. You will be creating your own sprites in seconds. When you have finished customizing you can export out your sprite and use it in your game.

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!

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.

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.

This article is extremely useful if you are looking for a website that provides numerous links to different websites, each involving a different aspect of game design.

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

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.

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

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.

Multi-format Export When combined with additional export modules, GameMaker: Studio™ can take your game's single codebase and produce ready-to-run executables and store-ready apps for multiple platforms with a single click. it iS A GREAT tool into exploring game maker and has turtrials and alot of cool games to play so if you are struggiling this is for you.

Yes, this is a Wikipedia website. But it is valuable. It tells you the history of Game Maker, what it is, and the most valuable part of all, it tells you a little bit about Game Maker language. Can be useful for multiple things in Game Maker

There is a large number of tutorials available on the Game Maker Community. If you need help with Game Maker, this is a good resource.

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 link will bring you to a forum that provides tips and tricks for game maker. It also provides access to discussions about common questions with the software.

This website is all about Game Maker. It is a forum and people post all sorts of things like game ideas, and games that are a work-in-progress. This is valuable because you can connect to the Game Maker community, and generally make better games.

Gaming in education is a really big deal, and a very fun way to get students more involved and interested in education. Board games, video games, even active outdoor games all have an important place in education, and these videos share more about their role in learning. Check out #49 :)

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.