video game design and development

This is a good guide for new people to minecraft. This can be helpful to others who are not sure how to play, that teaches you the basics,and how to survive the first night. I believe that this guide would be great for our students also because it will encourage more people to play minecraft and see if they like it and enjoy it. Finally, this might eventually help people start to build their own things and adventures or mini games! I hope this helps new players!

This is a very useful video for making a race in Disney Infinity. It teaches you good ideas and ways to add A.I.s and create a creative and fun racetrack in this game.

Jason Wilmot is a teacher in Nebraska who has been using minecraft with his students. He has provided a number of links to resources he has created and curated to help you teach with, learn with, and play minecraft!

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.

What is a sprite? If you look up "sprite" in a dictionary or on the internet, you'll get references to fairies, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, and maybe even a bit of pixie dust. That may be what you were thinking when you clicked on the link that brought you here, but this article is about making 2D graphics a little bit more flexible.

it is really cool and shows how to put together a sprite

This is the site where the GameMaker community resides. Publish your games here to share them with the rest of the community. Play and rate games created by other GameMaker users.

Blog post highlighting 5 tools that allow you to create your own game: 'Sploder, Draw 4 Game, Isoball 3, Jacksmith, and Purpose Games (a tool to create educational games).

The Pew Research Center reports that approximately 97% of teens play video games in their free time. Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subject-areas have used programming and game design to teach 21st Century skills, but what can an English class do to leverage the potential of game-based learning?

A medium-level tutorial on getting multiple objects to respond to the same alarm. Useful for rhythm games or anywhere you want to synchronize multiple event responses.

This blog post does a nice job of defining flow and fiero, two key concepts for game designers to keep in perspective.

Zatun prides itself of providing the most creative and best quality concept art, concept design and character design for your video game projects.

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

This isn't just any blog, this is a blog made by the man, the myth, the legend, Mr. Isaacs! It's a great resource filled with links to other sites, mostly about game based learning. Towards the bottom of the page you will find the Holy Grail to all Game Maker tutorials. There are literally dozens of tutorials, all created by none other than Sir Isaacs himself.

Playfic is an online community that lets you write, remix, share, and play interactive text-based games with the world. The site includes tutorials on creating your own text-based adventure games.

this article gives tips on how to make your game more creative and make your game the best looking.

This is a tutorial on Youtube about GameMaker. This resource could definitely help a beginner who is new to GameMaker, and needs to no the basics about programming, rooms, sprites, sounds, etc.

This website has many different sounds and music that we can incoporate in our games. They can be in MP3 format or WAV.