Links

=//Careers in Game Designing//=

[|Gama Sutra] - "The Art and Business of Making Games"; a highly-valuable site used by pros in the game design industry! [|International Game Developers' Association] - Breaking In: Preparing for your career in games [|Game Design Jobs] - a good list (with explanations) of all the different types of jobs that are part of a game designing team [|A Good Place to Start Out: Game Tester] [|Resources for Game Design Beginners] at GameDev [|How do I make games? A Path to Game Development] [|Game Industry Map] - shows you where in the world the different game design companies are located, along with a lot of useful information about them
 * ===Game Designing Careers Links===

[|Rise of the Video Game - Part 1] - needs to be re-uploaded to my server, check back later! [|Rise of the Video Game - Part 2] - needs to be re-uploaded to my server, check back later! [|Rise of the Video Game - Part 3] - needs to be re-uploaded to my server, check back later! [|Rise of the Video Game - Part 4] - needs to be re-uploaded to my server, check back later! [|Rise of the Video Game - Part 5] - needs to be re-uploaded to my server, check back later!
 * ===Videos on Game Design and Game Industry History===

[|What is Game Design?] - Wikipedia's easy-to-understand explanation [|Game-Based Learning] - an //excellent// explanation of how/why games are good for learning and how to make a good learning game [|Why Games at School?] - another great explanation of the benefits of educational games, especially when students are creating them [|Engage Me or Enrage Me] - a well-argued article by [|Mark Prensky] on how education needs to adapt to our 21st century culture [|Game Design and Game Play to Aid Learning] - a great collection of articles! [|Texas Games Network] - meeting place for teachers and students to share about game designing [|The Game Maker's Apprentice] - an outstanding online guide to creating computer games [|Game Maker Student Examples] [|Game Maker Official Site] - tons of example games, plus a great user forum to answer all your questions [|MindTools] - examples, tutorials, and more; resources for seven different game design programs [|Arcademic Skill Builders] - a strong site with many outstanding educational games [|FunBrain] - a great educational gaming site [|Scholastic] - another site with rich learning games [|Kinetic City] - great site for science and engineering games [|Discovery Kids] - one of the best sites for learning games, be sure to try WhizBall [|Whyville] - a student-centered, hands-on environment for exploring various school subjects, encouraging scientific discovery and social responsibility. [|Food Force] - a great exploration/mission game to help students understand world hunger and efforts to alleviate it. [|SimCity Classic] - Live! The online version of one of the all-time greatest learning games [|AquaMOOSE3D] - play with the behavior of parametric equations in three dimensions and create things that are beautiful both mathematically and artistically. [|Gamequarium] - thousands of educational games and videos!
 * ===Game Designing Examples, Forums, and Articles===
 * ===Educational Games Online===

[|Quest Atlantis] [|River City]
 * ===Online Worlds - Total Virtual Environments===

[|LoopSound] [|Sound Snap] [|FlashKit] [|FlashKit] [|Reiners Tilesets] [|Roencia Game Creators] [|SpriteWorks] [|Game Beep] [|Game Maker 7] [|Game Maker 6.1] [|Game Discovery] [|Scratch] [|Inform7] - for creating Interactive Fiction games [|Game Creation Software] [|Sodaplay][|up-to-date Java engine] [|Moovl][|Java engine][|here] [|Bamzooki] [|StarLogo] [|StarLogo TNG] [|Scratch] [|Squeak] [|Alice] [|Python] [|GW-BASIC] - first generation [|QuickBASIC] - or QBASIC, second generation (you might need to get the program file [|here]) [|Visual Studio 2005 Express] - third generation, replaces Visual BASIC 6.0 (2008 is out now, but 2005 is easier for newbies + is free)
 * ===Game Designing Resources - Sounds, Sprites, and More===
 * ===Game Designing Tools===
 * ===Programming Tools===