video game design and development

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.

This site can help you decide how fast or slow you want the image to appear how it's moving. It is a useful resource

This provides sprites and backgrounds. It is a nice website that helps you to use many different kinds of sprites. I hope that nobody has contributed this yet.

The Game Design Tool Kit

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 resource is a whole list of sprites that work well with the Game Maker software. This is valuable because if you need some sprites, look no further, there are hundreds on this site (including Nyan Cat)!

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

This post discusses three tools used to design and write interactive fiction. The tools range in difficulty.

Get Lamp is probably the definitive (if not only) documentary on the text adventure genre of games. The advent of the text adventure was a defining moment in the game industry as it was essentially the first time that companies were developed specifically to write and produce computer games.

This site is really helpful if you are a beginner that doesn't know what to do first. This website also includes a schedule that you can follow as you get better at designing games. You can use this site to find new tricks and tips as well as features and audios to add into your game. Furthermore, this site includes FAQs if you're still confused. Finally, this page shows you how you can enter your game in competitions and contests if you believe that your game truly is one of a kind.

This is a very good guide for how to use gamemaker

This is a great beginner guide to game maker. It has all different levels of difficulty.

This page has numerous articles about how to design an effective game and aesthetics etc. I read and got great ideas about what I could incorporate into my game.

Ren'Py is a visual novel engine that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell stories with the computer. These can be both visual novels and life simulation games. The easy to learn script language allows you to efficiently write large visual novels, while its Python scripting is enough for complex simulation games. Ren'Py is open source and free for commercial use. It supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Android.

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. AGS provides everything you need from within one easy-to-use application. Create, test and debug your game, all in one place. Why wait? Get cracking on your first game now!

Guest blog post by Marianne Malmstrom on Net Family News website. Great insight on using Minecraft in education.

Looking Glass is the successor to Storytelling Alice. It was designed to teach computer programming skills to middle school students through digital storytelling. Add characters and objects to your story and drag and drop commands to program the story.

This is a set of resources I have created including videos and 'how to' examples of game maker skills and concepts. The examples use game maker 8.1 and will soon be accompanied by examples using Game Maker Studio.

This video shows the basic format used in creating an interactive story / text based adventure using the Inform software. The video is great as it definitely provides the viewer with the belief that creating a text based adventure with this tool is definitely viable!

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.