video game design and development

Starting designers have often asked me what steps they should take in order to improve their projects and/or designs. A lot of the time it comes down to fundamental flaws that I see in a wide variety of projects.

Long, long ago at a GDC far, far away, I introduced the idea that a useful way of looking at gameplay is as "a series of interesting decisions". This comment has since taken on a life and identity of its own and appears irregularly in theoretical discussions of game play and game design.

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.

when i see this ive never seen anything this amazing thing ever. i would have never thought of what redstone can do and it gives me what can be done with redstone

It is a great tutorial for how to use makey makey.

Download Slides: http://gamesauce.org/news/2014/08/20/... Delivered at Casual Connect USA, July 2014

Long, long ago at a GDC far, far away, I introduced the idea that a useful way of looking at gameplay is as "a series of interesting decisions". This comment has since taken on a life and identity of its own and appears irregularly in theoretical discussions of game play and game design.

This is a site informs about the different kinds of levels that you can create in your game. I think this is valuable because it tells you the basics of level designing.

This website has various tutorials showing you many different types of code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, PHP and JQuery) and offers tutorials for beginners who have no idea how to use code as well as tutorials for people who have worked with code before and can create things without being showed how to.

This could help many advanced people who can use redstone to make an epic door. It could also help spark new idea to make people expand on past buildings.

Tutorial on how to build a house on Project Spark using only Voxels! (Directions are also below)

Unity Training is a free program that helps you do everything from making a simple keyboard game to a 3d game with unity. They have made many instructional videos and have seen over 3.5 million views. It is great to learn about game design and design your own game.

This is really cool because it shows you how to create a minecraft escalader with redstone. It will help with Redstonia creations

This is a great, simple, well explained tutorial created by a young person. Very nicely explained

This article describes how to write a Game Design Document that is actually helpful.

This is a very useful video for people who don't have much experience with redstone. It goes over all the basics and goes in to some harder and more advanced things.

A series of educational videos about how to create various things in Project Spark, with a primary focus on the "kode" language that Project Spark uses. By watching these videos you can learn the basics of how to create your own games in Project Spark, as well as some advanced features. Your host is "Mescad', a stay-at-home dad from central Kentucky who loves Computer Science education and enabling creative people to create awesome things in Project Spark. The current production schedule is that a new tutorial video will be uploaded on Monday, Wednesday and Friday each week. Follow @mescad on Twitter or subscribe to this channel to receive notifications when a new video is posted. Comments and questions are always welcome, and I do take requests for videos. Project Spark is a free game creation platform developed by Microsoft's Team Dakota, available on Xbox One, Windows 8, and soon on Xbox 360. Learn more at http://www.projectspark.com/

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.

These resources posted by YoYo Games, the makers of Game Maker Studio include things such as sounds, backgrounds and sprites.

download these sprites to make your game look fancier

This is a great site to find resources you can use as sprites. This sites is great if you need a tutorial on how to do something. It also includes many other links to resources that may help you on your journey through Gm

Research from Rice Yniversity on Teaching Computer Video Game Design