video game design and development

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

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.

A pretty good help for beginner game designers.

For those interested in programming and game development, this channel has videos on creating a game from scratch using Java. There are many similarities with GML; even if you are not interested in programming with Java, you can learn a lot of things useful in GM too.

This is a great video that goes over the basics of game maker studio.

This video (and channel) deals with making a simple Platform game using the game maker language. You can see how the D&D actions of GM are translated into code, and how much you can manipulate them to do what you want, instead of being limited by the D&D's format. For someone with no previous experience with GM or coding, these videos can be very useful as an intro to what you can do with the software.

This website is a bit of a hub for other tutorials, giving links to other resources and compiling them all in one helpful place. It's good to have a place to see everything else there.

This is a useful resource for beginners in Game Maker, showing all the different things the program is capable of. It's also good for people who aren't sure whether they want to buy it or not, because it describes the program very well and gives a review of it before the tutorial starts.