Gaming Lectures – Professor Whitehead

Lectures material from Professor Whitehead at UCSC

tags: gaming video videogame game development vgdev programming coordinate system tutorial gamemaker

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.

tags: gaming, video, videogame, gamedevelopment, vgdev, programming, teaching, ethics, simulations, military, behavior

Gamemaker Tutorials

More tutorials on Game Maker

tags: gaming, video, videogame, gamedevelopment, vgdev, programming, teaching, gamemaker

Alarms – YoYoGames Wiki

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

tags: gaming, video, videogame, gamedevelopment, vgdev, programming, teaching, gamemaker

Mike Bailey’s Game Maker Page

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

tags: gamingvideovideogamegamedevelopmentvgdevprogrammingteachinggamemaker

Basic Assignments

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

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, teaching, gamemaker

X and Y Coordinates

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

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, coordinate, system, tutorial, gamemaker

• understand how
  the coordinate system in Game Maker works

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Designing programs with flow charts

Great primer on the use of flowcharts in programming.

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, lesson, plan

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Dungeons and Dragons – Basic Rulebook (first edition by Gary Gigax)

tags: game, gaming, rpg, roleplaying, dungeon, dragon, gygax, dnd, vidgamedev

Study Guide for Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, books, ebook, reading, technology, doctorow, studyguide

Study Guide for Ender’s Game

tags: gaming, video, videogame, development, vgdev, books, ebook, reading, technology, ender, game, studyguide

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Game Design Lesson Plan | Luke Nihlen

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, lesson, plan

Frogger Lesson Plan

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, lesson, plan

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Rise of the Video Game : Timelines | Discovery Channel

Great resource to accompany Discovery’s Rise of the Videogame series

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, discovery, history

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Whiplash Transition And Stress Of Drone Wars | Conflict Health

Article by Christopher Albon on interview with P.W. Singer

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, vgdev, technology, ethics, values, drones, ptsd, whiplash

The Ethical, Psychological Effects Of Robotic Warfare | NPR FreshAir

Interview with P.W. Singer – has audio file and transcripts

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, vgdev, technology, ethics, values, drones, ptsd, psychological, ethical

America’s New Air Force – 60 Minutes – CBS News

A discussion of drones, their pilots and PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). Consider the relationship between this live “video-game” and ethics & values. Consider PTSD and examine and similar relationships within the gamer community.

tags: gaming, video, videogame, development, vgdev, books, ebook, reading, technology, ender, game, predator, drone, ethics, morals, values, ptsd

Ender’s Game | Orson Scott Card

Great read about games, simulations, children, military, deception – considering for use as part of an ethics discussion in a video game development course.

tags: gaming, video, videogame, development, vgdev, books, ebook, reading, technology, ender, game

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Little Brother » Download for Free

Cory Doctorow’s science-fiction story on human rights in the digital world.

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, books, ebook, reading, technology

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The Brainy Gamer

Interesting blog on video game design

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev

Values at Play » Education

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, values

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Discover Babylon

Another product from FAS.org – this time an historical video game set in ancient Mesopotamia.

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, babylon, history

Immune Attack

Video game based on reality – teaching science through games.

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, science

Games Without Frontiers: How Videogames Blind Us With Science

Interesting article about problem solving and the scientific method. 

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, reading

RPG Builder 3D

tags: gaming, video, videogame, development, vgdev, programming, opensource, design, 3D, game, rpbuilder

Platinum Arts Sandbox

Free open-source 3D game making engine for VideoGames, RPGs & Game Design Creation

tags: gaming, video, videogame, development, vgdev, programming, opensource, design, 3D, game, sandbox

Casual Game Design: Designing Play for the Gamer in All of Us

By Gregory Trefry (also available on Kindle and as an e-Book)

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, book

The Art of Game Design | Jesse Schell

Site which supports the book of the same name. Some educator resources here too.

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming

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Teaching College Math » Blog Archive » Game Design as a Teaching Method for Math

Although it speaks of college level math, I want to have a math focus in my HS course. This is a helpful thought from another educator.

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, math

Student Mentors Teach Game Design | Edutopia

Great article on inner city/urban initiative which gets HS kids working with and teaching MS students and thereby reinforcing their own understanding.

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming

GameMaker

Video Game Development Engine

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming

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Computer Programming with Alice Course @ SFSToledo

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, syllabus

Gamasutra – Features – Quick and Dirty Prototyping: A Success Story

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, reading

The Art of Computer Game Design

By Chris Crawford

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, book

Gamasutra – The Art & Business of Making Games

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming

The Game Programming Wiki

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming

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C++ Game Programming

How to develop games using C++

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming

Programming with C++ at Urbana High School

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming

Processing.org

Open-Source Programming Environment

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, processing

CS426 – Video Game Programming

Course description for Univ of Illinois @ Chicago

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, syllabus

Video Game Design & Development @ UWF (PDF)

Course description for undergraduate course

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming

Flex 3 – Programming ActionScript 3.0 for Flash

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, flex, adobe

Amazon.com: A Theory of Fun for Game Design

Book on fun in games

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, book, fun

Create a Flash game like Linerider – Emanuele Feronato

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, linerider

Interactive Classroom: Game Control Curriculum

UK unit on Game Dev using Scratch

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, curriculum

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Amazon.com: Scratch Programming for Teens

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, book, scratch, mit

The Game Design Reader – The MIT Press

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, book, mit

Amazon.com: Game Design Course ,Principles, Practice, &Techniques-the Ultimate Guide for the Aspiring Game Designer 2007 publication (9780500286586): BarnabyBerbank-green: Books

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, book

Study: Effects of Liming on the Flora and Fauna of Acidic Lakes (PDF)

Univ. of Minnesota study by Eleanor Lease on the effects of introducing lime to counteract acidity in lakes.

tags: northern, forest, canoe, trail, waterway, environment, science, recovery, river, project, nhrrp, cranberry, wv, study, research

Bringing back the brookies: | Sunday Gazette – Mail; Charleston, W.V. Newspaper | Find Articles at BNET

Article discussing the success of the liming project on WV’s Cranberry River.

tags: northern, forest, canoe, trail, waterway, environment, science, recovery, river, project, nhrrp, cranberry, wv, news

Cranberry River (West Virginia) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cranberry River is the site of a successful restoration project using lime as a recovery agent to overcome the acidic nature of the river due to pollution.

tags: northern, forest, canoe, trail, waterway, environment, science, recovery, river, project, nhrrp, cranberry, wv

Northern Forest Canoe Trail – Home

Canoe trail which spans 740 miles across four states.

tags: northern, forest, canoe, trail, waterway, environment, science, recovery, river, project, nhrrp

Computer Game Making For Kids

Decent article on the Why? of Video Game Development courses

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming

• 
  • – post by edventures

Learning to Program with Alice

Free resources but also a link to a physical book which can be used in a VGD curriculum

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, alice, tutorial, resources, book

RPG MAKER™ XP

Game Design Engine – not free

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, rpgmaker

Amazon.com: The Game Maker’s Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners (Technology in Action) (9781590596159): Jacob Habgood, Mark Overmars, Phil Wilson: Books

Specific to the Game Maker design engine

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, book

Amazon.com: Game Design Workshop: Designing, Prototyping, & Playtesting Games (Gama Network Series) (9781578202225): Tracy Fullerton, Chris Swain, Steven Hoffman: Books

Book on Game Design – not just video games but theory behind games

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, book

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Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite

GameDev.net – all your game development needs

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, community

Game Education Summit North America 2010 – Presentations | Game Education Summit North America

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, education, summit, programming

35+ Flash Game Development Tutorials & FLA Files | Tutorials | PelFusion.com

tags: gaming, video, videogame, game, development, vgdev, programming, flash, tutorials, tutorial

Alice.org

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 teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.

tags: videogame, gaming, video, game, development, vgdev, programming, alice

• 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 teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.

Ambrosine’s Games Page

List of resources for video game development programs

tags: videogame, gaming, video, game, development, vgdev, programming

DarkBASIC – Home

Consider greenfoot as a combination between a framework for creating two-dimensional grid assignments in Java and an integrated development environment (class browser, editor, compiler, execution, etc.) suitable for novice programmers. While greenfoot supports the full Java language, it is especially useful for programming exercises that have a visual element. In greenfoot object visualisation and object interaction are the key elements.

tags: videogame, gaming, video, game, development, vgdev, darkbasic, programming

• DarkBASIC allows you to create your own games, demos, slideshows, even business applications using the easy to understand BASIC programming language. Even if you’ve never coded before, just follow the in-depth tutorials and you’ll be generating results in minutes! Harness the power of Direct X and make 3D objects come to life in just a few simple commands.

UDK – Unreal Development Kit – Epic Games

Unreal Engine 3

tags: videogame, gaming, video, game, development, vgdev, programming, udk, unreal

• UDK is Unreal Engine 3 – the complete professional development framework. All the tools you need to create great games, advanced visualizations and detailed 3D simulations.

XNA Developer Center

MS Resources for video game development

tags: videogame, gaming, video, game, development, vgdev, programming, xna

greenfoot.org

Consider greenfoot as a combination between a framework for creating two-dimensional grid assignments in Java and an integrated development environment (class browser, editor, compiler, execution, etc.) suitable for novice programmers. While greenfoot supports the full Java language, it is especially useful for programming exercises that have a visual element. In greenfoot object visualisation and object interaction are the key elements.

tags: videogame, gaming, video, game, development, vgdev, greenfoot, programming

• Consider greenfoot as a combination between a framework for creating
  two-dimensional grid assignments in Java and an integrated development
  environment (class browser, editor, compiler, execution, etc.) suitable
  for novice programmers. While greenfoot supports the full Java language,
  it is especially useful for programming exercises that have a visual
  element. In greenfoot object visualisation and object interaction are
  the key elements.

Planet Kodu | Create Something Cool

Home of Kodu Game Lab PC, a game development engine

tags: videogame, gaming, video, game, development, vgdev, Kodu, programming, microsoft

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Stupeflix Studio – Video creation made easy

tags: lhs-digex, media, web2.0, storytelling, digitalstorytelling, stupeflix, video

Weebly – Create a free website and a free blog

Create a free website & blog, Easy drag and drop interface, No technical skills required, Dozens of professional designs, Free domain hosting

tags: lhs-digex, web2.0, application, website, webdesign, web

Glogster – Poster Yourself | Text, Images, Music and Video

“Simply put, Glog is a kind of poster – fully designed by yourself! Glog is a fancy creation from text, images, music and video. No matter if it is colorful, sexy or emo. Your Glog will stand out. It gives you a perfect tool to express yourself. “

tags: lhs-digex, glogster, web2.0, poster, design, application

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Presentation Zen: Is education killing creativity?

“he certainly is not saying that math and science should be taught or studied less, rather that music and the arts and creativity in general should be pursued more.”

tags: lhs-digex, media, web2.0, storytelling, digitalstorytelling, creativity, KenRobinson

web2storytelling

“”the telling of stories using Web 2.0 tools, technologies, and strategies… For our present discussion, we will identify two essential features that are useful in distinguishing Web 2.0 projects and platforms from the rest of the web: microcontent and social media.”"

tags: lhs-digex, media, web2.0, storytelling, digitalstorytelling, wiki

Kids pack in nearly 11 hours of media use daily | Safe and Secure – CNET News

“A new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows a “dramatic” rise in the amount of time children and teens spend using entertainment media, “especially among minority youth.” The study, “Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-year-olds,” only focused on recreational use of media, not homework, school-related online research, or reading books for school. “

tags: lhs-digex, media, web2.0

Generation M2: Understanding the Multimedia Teen

tags: lhs-digex, media, web2.0

Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie

“CREATE MOVIES IN REAL TIME ON YOUR COMPUTER”

tags: digitalstorytelling, storytelling, lhs-digex, media, web2.0, animation, moviemaking, xtranormal

New Media Literacies

tags: digitalstorytelling, storytelling, lhs-digex, glogster, media, literacies, medialiteracy, mit, web2.0, literacy, technology

TeachingInnovations – home

Example of a wiki page using multimedia content from a 3rd party

tags: digitalstorytelling, storytelling, lhs-digex, glogster, media, web2.0, wiki

Digital Storytelling

Slideshare on the process

tags: digitalstorytelling, storytelling, lhs-digex

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Welcome to PrimaryAccess

“PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.”

tags: lhs-digex, digitalstorytelling, web2.0, storytelling, video

Grazing for Digital Natives – digitalstorytelling

tags: lhs-digex, DigitalStorytelling, presentations, web2.0, storytelling

Empressr – The Best Online Rich Media Presentation Application

tags: lhs-digex, digitalstorytelling, presentations, web2.0

OCEANA MAGAZINE – Premier issue 2009

Multimedia magazine

tags: lhs-digex, digitalstorytelling, magazine, oceana

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digitalstorytelling – Defining DigitalStorytelling

tags: lhs-digex, digitalstorytelling

Issuu – You Publish

tags: lhs-digex, publishing, web2.0, magazine, books, design

Youth Voices

Be known. Show who you are through your creativity and scholarship. At Youth Voices you can post updates many times each day on the microblog, What’s up? And you can use your cell phone to post audio.

tags: lhs-digex, YouthVoices, web2.0, collaboration, education, social_networking, youth, technology

The Daily Shoot

tags: lhs-digex, photo, picture, image, camera

The 3 Gs in Education: GPS, Geocaching and Google Earth

An education based site by Diane Main from Milpitas Christian School, San Jose

tags: Geocaching, googleearth, geography, gis, google-map, g-earth, google earth, gps

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