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Contents 1 Let's discuss the wiki via this chat/forum! 2 STEP ONE - LIST RESOURCES 2.1 Recommended Books 2.2 Games 2.3 Videos 2.4 Schools 2.5 Websites 2.6 Blogs 2.7 Twitter/Google+ list 2.8 Prototyping Tools/engines 2.9 Asset resources 2.10 Jams/Comps 2.11 Podcasts 2.12 Articles 2.13 Forums/Communities 2.14 People 2.15 Psychology 2.16 Process 2.17 Biz Dev 2.18 Open Source game development 2.19 Misc 2.20 Magazines 3 STEP TWO - Organize resources 4 STEP THREE - Instructional getting started format 4.1 Experience making a game 4.2 Immersion in the community, with step by step instructions for setting up 4.3 Start making games already 4.4 Starter reading material 4.5 Further reading/listening/viewing material 4.6 Finishing and publishing games

Let's discuss the wiki via this chat/forum!

STEP ONE - LIST RESOURCES

Eventually break these out into individual pages/sections but let's start out with just a big ol list to get the ball rolling!

Stuff to put on here:

Recommended Books

• Breaking into the game industry
• Challenges for game designers
• Rules of Play
• The Art of Game Design
• Game Design Workshop
• Chris Crawford on Game Design
• The Game Design Reader
• Game Feel
• Game Frame
• A Theory of Fun
• Reality is Broken
• Total Engagement
• Fundamentals of Game Design
• Videogame theory reader FREE
• Many many more, perhaps a public amazon list?

Games

• Gamestar Mechanic

Videos

• GDC vault
• thenewboston.com
• Video Game Documentaries
  • History
  • Systems
  • Games
  • Genres
  • People
  • Companies

Schools

• FREE MIT OpenCourseWare Game Design Course
• Wikiversity School of Game Design
• Full Sail
• Art Institute
• Rochester Institute of Technology

Websites

• Gamasutra
• Top 50 game design blogs
• Game Career Guide
• GameDev.net
• Game Industry Map
• #AltDevBlogaday
• Game Development Blogs
• BoardGameGeek Designer Diaries
• Learning Game Design - Chain Reaction Games
• Add some good blogs as well as news sites, I have a bunch in my RSS feeds I'll add

Blogs

The following list originated at The Computer Gizmo Blog

• Brenda Brathwaite
• Erin Hoffman
• Ben Mattes
• John Passfield
• Raphael
• Psychochild
• Raph Koster
• Soren Johnson
• Wolfgang Engel
• Jools Watsham
• Mike Darga
• Jason Yip
• Cory Barlog
• Derek Daniels
• Sirlin

The following are added due to personal use:(ie the blogs I read every day)

• Craig Timpany
• TiedTiger

• Would be nice to make a nice public blogroll (kinda like my public twitter list) with easy steps/instructions for subscribing in a variety of common readers (lets start with google reader).

Twitter/Google+ list

• http://twitter.com/#!/mzo/game-designers
• http://www.group.as/game+developers/
• Anyone else got a twitter list?
• Hope to add my google+ game devs circle list to here at some point when google has a way to do that!

Prototyping Tools/engines

• Construct
• Game Salad
• Game Maker
• Stencyl
• Unity
  • Unpacked
• Unreal Development Kit
• 3dvia Studio
• Other lists
  • iPhone Game Engines
    • Cocos2d
    • iTorque 2D
    • Corona SDK
  • List of game making tools
  • Wikipedia list of game engines
• Once we build pages for these I will link to good tutorials for them!

Asset resources

Add good resources for free art/sounds including possibly illegal stuff like sprite sheets ;)

Images

• Lost Garden prototyping art!
• http://opengameart.org/
• http://tsgk.captainn.net/
• http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/20/where-can-i-find-free-sprites-and-images
• http://www.openclipart.org/

Sounds

• http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/14/where-can-i-find-free-music-for-my-game
• https://8bc.org/
• http://ccmixter.org/
• http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/
• http://www.freesound.org/
• http://musopen.org/
• http://openmusicarchive.org/
• http://incompetech.com/

Videos/Animations

• http://www.open-video.org/index.php

Other

• http://www.freemediaguide.com/free_public_domain_videos.html

Jams/Comps

• http://gamejamhq.com
• http://gamejamcentral.com

Podcasts

• Game Developers Radio - http://www.gamedevradio.net/
• Core Elements Podcast The Dead Workers Party
• http://blog.iainlobb.com/2010/07/gamedev-and-indie-games-podcasts.html
• http://www.gameenginepodcast.com/

Articles

• Massive Game Design article list!
• http://jordanmechner.com/blog/2011/09/atomic/
• http://makegames.tumblr.com/post/1136623767/finishing-a-game
• http://www.pixelprospector.com/the-big-list-of-game-design/
• http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AdamSaltsman/20090506/1334/I_Wanna_Make_Games_When_I_Grow_Up.php
• http://corvus.zakelro.com/2011/08/12/so-you-wanna-call-yourself-a-game-designer/
• Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie! Archive
• Fundamentals of Game Design by Raph Koster
• "How I design" by Chelsea Howe
• Designing a Game, from Start to Finish - Chain Reaction Productions

Forums/Communities

• Reddit Gamedev
• Board Game Designers Forum
• GameDev Game Design Forum
• RPG game design
• DevMaster Game Design Forum
• Board Game Geek Design Forum
• International Game Developers Association
• Boston Post Mortem (IGDA Chapter)
• Boston Indies
• A big list of forums
• Add more from this list of 40! http://www.videogamedesignschools.net/40-helpful-independent-game-design-forums/

People

• Ernest Adams
• Dave Sirlin
• Daniel Cook
• Steve Jackson
• James Ernest
• Put game designers worth looking up to here and links to find their stuff!

Psychology

• Psychology of games blog
• Flow
• Operant conditioning
• Addiction
• Intrinsic rewards
• Extrinsic rewards

Process

• Pretotyping
• Design Docs
  • Space Miner Design doc
  • Chris Taylor's (Total Annihilation, Dungeon Siege) game design document template (.doc format)
• Prototyping
• Playtesting
  • Beta testing articles
• Alpha
• Beta
• Full Release

Biz Dev

• Business Model
• Monetization
• Marketing
  • Indie Game Social Marketing

Open Source game development

• http://freegamer.blogspot.com/
• Ludum Dare
• http://forum.freegamedev.net/

Misc

• Game Crafter, get your board games manufactured!
• Game Studies journal
• Card Game Forge
• Huge list of Indie Resources
• Game Development Wiki
• http://freegamedev.net/wiki/Main_Page
• Game Design Dictionary
• Scvngr game mechanics playdeck
• Joe Burchett's list of resources
• Amit's game programming
• Job Boards
• Game Design Process
• The Ultimate Game Dev resource list

Magazines

• Game Developer Magazine
• Casual Connect Magazine
• #gamedesign daily

STEP TWO - Organize resources

Organize resources into individual pages with more information and better navigational structure (but still keep the flat list page like this available!)

STEP THREE - Instructional getting started format

Step by step instructions for someone newly interested in game design (books/articles to read, exercises to do, jams to join, etc).

Rough draft of steps/stages

Experience making a game

• Provide a link to a good game making tutorial for a simple prototyping engine
• Play Gamestar mechanic
• Tweak some board games

Immersion in the community, with step by step instructions for setting up

• Podcasts to listen to
• Blogs/RSS feeds to follow
• Twitter/Google+ lists to follow
• Magazines to read
• Forums to join

Start making games already

• Information/tutorials on game jamming, rapid prototyping and the experimental indie process
• Game Jams to join in, especially regularly occurring ones like ExperimentalGameplayProject and KlikoftheMonth
• Challenges for game designers exercises
• Asset and open source resources to play with

Starter reading material

• Good starter articles on how to approach design, especially from those who describe their own methodologies
• Game Design books beginners should read
• Other good game making tutorials

Further reading/listening/viewing material

• More advanced or in-depth topics in both text and audio/video form
• Resources for learning actual game programming vs just using easy prototyping tools/engines
• Resources for learning asset skills (art and sound)

Finishing and publishing games

• Articles and guides on polishing, finishing and distributing games for free/money on a variety of platforms