Gaming Lectures – Professor Whitehead

Lectures material from Professor Whitehead at UCSC

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Behavior Authoring in Commercial Games

Came across this site which uses behavioral analysis to determine which techniques to include in military training sims. May go well with reading of Ender’s Game and discussion of military’s drone program.

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Gamemaker Tutorials

More tutorials on Game Maker

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Alarms – YoYoGames Wiki

An in-depth explanation of the role of alarms in Game Maker

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Mike Bailey’s Game Maker Page

Another teacher’s resource for developing a video game design course.

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Basic Assignments

A terrific resource for teachers new to teaching the concepts around video game development (like me).

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X and Y Coordinates

A great explanation of the coordinate system used by Game Maker.

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• understand how
  the coordinate system in Game Maker works