video game design and development

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 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!

As a novice gamer, I find this site so helpful. It gives its reader a play by play for everything in game design! This site has a section for everything you can possibly imagine! Topics from Status to Story. You should defiantly check out this site and maybe even add to it!

Extra Credits is a weekly show about video games. Join us every week as we take a deeper look at games: how they are made, what they mean and how we can make them better.

Information about Valve's Portal 2, including trailers, screenshots and preorders. This game is great and you should play!

Brad Nelson (independent developer of the forthcoming Lone Wolf) will lead a hands-on workshop that provides information on designing and developing a video game. A short lecture will cover the basic design strategies of developing a video game, including the game's purpose and it's intended audience.

Download the latest RPG Maker resources.

Great way to learn how to code.

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.

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.

A pretty good help for beginner game designers.

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/