video game design and development

To new spark users this site will help with everything you need to know including videos and a chat room. There is some to help with every aspect of a game you want to build on the Xbox one.

Piskel is a great site to make and or edit sprites. It is very useful and easy to use. It is one of the best sprite editors out there.

Piskel, free online sprite editor. A simple web-based tool for Spriting and Pixel art. Create pixel art, game sprites and animated GIFs. Free and open-source.

Piskel is an easy to use and very effective tool for creating pixel graphics for GameMaker: Studio and other programs. Animations can be made right in the web based app!

Research from Rice Yniversity on Teaching Computer Video Game Design

There is a lot of good information in this article that connects to real world game developing.

This is an article that contains 12 important tips on game design. I think it can be very helpful.

These should be fun to try out at home. A lot of them look really interesting!

This gives great tips for using game maker and improving your game.

this is a good idea and it shows the thought procsess so you can change stuff and make it your own

Video game reviewing gives people an idea of how good or bad a game is, if you want to learn a little bit about making a review, read this article.

Video game reviewing gives people an idea of how good or bad a game is, if you want to learn a little bit about making a review, read this article.

This Link is to a wep page that gives specific information on how to create levels in Portal 2, how you can generate great ideas for creating your game and how you can playtest your game to see if it is ready to be released into the public to play and test.

These may be common knowledge, but they're good reminders/tips for everyone to abide by -- especially those procrastinators out there (myself included)!

This video tell you how to make a test chamber in Portal 2. It is very helpful for people who want to make a test chamber, but don't know what they should do to make one.

If you are new to minecraft, then this will help you play the game and understand all of the crafting recipes in the game when you are playing survival.

On this website, if you look on the left, there's a link called Gamepedia Forums (under gamepedia) to add a Suggestion and/or request. It's kind of like Eco forum, except you can do DIFFERENT GAMES OTHER THAN MINECRAFT

READ THIS I U LIKE MINECRAFT!!!! this link will bring you to a website were you can download adventure mod packs. They are a ton of fun.Go to the website to read more. FYI the gameplay will be much smoother if you have a gaming computer.

Since the reviewer quests just started, I thought this video will help. It helps you to learn about how to review video games if you don't know how to start.

This website explains how to set up everything in a Portal 2 game that you create, so if you miss any class by pull outs or something else, like myself- you could try so learn it on here

Here are some great, high-quality art pixel sprites for you to use! Scroll down to find the download links for the pixel sprite files.

A great site telling you what each piece does in portal, so if you want to use them in your levels later!

For those of you that are having a tough time with the Portal 2 story mode or editor, try using these 6 tips to try and do better in Portal 2.