video game design and development

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.

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.

30 tutorials on drawing pixle art, useful for creating sprites

This website can be extremely easy sometimes and other times it be extremely difficult. Its fun and it make time fly by fast. Theres a number of level on Code.org and it take time. If your a patient gamer this is the place for you!

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.

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.

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.

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 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 the first episode in a series of how to make an adventure map. In this one he starts building it.

Similar to YoYo Game's beginner tutorial, this video shows how to create a simple click-the-dragon level that advances to level 2 when all dragons have been clicked. GameMaker Studio video tutorial play list with links to associated source files. Great way to learn the GameMaker basics!

This is so cool! You can make a moving walkway!

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.