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The Game Design program at VFS takes you from concept to alpha to beta to final in just one year. You work closely with video game industry mentors in an immersive environment that mirrors that of a professional studio as you design, produce, and present fully playable games. Storytelling, level design, game art, motion capture, scripting, cinematics, and the business of games are all just a part of what you will learn.

Gabe Zichermann and Christopher Cunningham: Gamification by Design. Implementing Game Mechanics in Web and Mobile Apps. O'Reilly, Sebastopol 2011, 169+xix pages. In the course of but one year, "gamification", the use of game design elements in non-game contexts, has managed to grow from a self-description used by some vendors and proponents to a placement on the Gartner hype cycle - and in the IT business, it doesn't get much more 'official' than that. Yet the term still stirs hot debate. On one side, game designers and scholars despise the whole notion as an "inadvertent con" (Margaret Robertson). On the other side, proponents counter that gamification already 'delivers' (in terms of numbers), yet is still in its infancy. Hence it would be premature to call foul on something so young, with no time to learn from failure and sort wheat from chaff. So who's right, who's wrong? For one answer to this question, let's have a look at the new book by Gabe Zichermann, Gamification by Design. Zichermann is one of the most public gamification proponents today, and chair of the Gamification Summit, now in its second iteration this September 15-16 in New York, where the book will be officially launched.

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Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world's best-known writers of IF.

At Shufflebrain, we design smart games for a connected world. We're passionate about creating games that keep you sharp and socially connected, and inspired by new opportunities to apply game design thinking to business, education and health. We've been working at the intersection of the Web and Games industries for a decade; we've helped design top casual games and Web services including Bejewelled 2, The Sims, Ultima Online, eBay, Moshi Monsters, Family.com, Rock Band, and Netflix.

Hi, I'm Ian Bogost. I am a designer, philosopher, critic, and researcher who focuses on computational media-videogames in particular. I'm also an author and an entrepreneur. I am a professor at Georgia Tech (a university), a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games (a videogame studio), and a Board Member at Open Texture (an educational publisher).

""As game designers," MIT's Scot Osterweil says, "we're convinced that game playing is a lot like science: There is problem-solving, exploration, collaboration, hypothesizing, testing and learning from your failures.""

Social Game Design for a Connected World. Ami Jo Kim. www.shufflebrain.com

Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games. Pygame adds functionality on top of the excellent SDL library. This allows you to create fully featured games and multimedia programs in the python language. Pygame is highly portable and runs on nearly every platform and operating system. Pygame itself has been downloaded millions of times, and has had millions of visits to this website. Pygame is free. Released under the LGPL licence, you can create open source, freeware, shareware, and commercial games with it. See the licence for full details.

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Festival dedicado a desarolladores de videojuegos, independientes o mainstream. Llena de información sobre premios, y conferencias.

Revista dedicada a los desarrolladores de videojuegos, con análisis, críticas y entrevistas. Muy interesante, solo que no es gratuita, aunuqe igual, es barata y más con la opción de descarga virtual.

YoYo Games Ltd is a UK Based Game Start-up founded by games industry veterans, Sandy Duncan and Michel Cassius. YoYo Games has grown to be the world's largest user generated game site with over 25,000 games. Employing a web 2.0 community model YoYo Games allows users to "Play, Make and Share games" for free.

Play over 30 Brain Games, start brain training today and improve your memory with scientifically designed Brain Fitness Games at Fitbrains.com!

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects.