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Design Resources

   Note especially that most computer game programming books have little or no design information in them - at most they'll have a half-hearted chapter on how to plot a storyline or an event tree and perhaps one on AI, and then they abandon you with tons of tempting info on programming, when that's the LAST thing you should be doing.

Biology and Gaming: Why Women Don't Play Games, by Philippe O'Connor

The Art of Computer Game Design, by Chris Crawford

Erasmatazz Library: Chris Crawford's game design/interactive storytelling page

"I Have No Words & I Must Design" - A screed on game design by Greg Costikyan [OFFLINE?]

the late Dani Berry's game design page [OFFLINE?]

Warren Robinett's home page

Richard A. Bartle's Formal Texts of MUD-related material

LambdaMOO research papers

Journal of Virtual Environments

Game Design quotes

Inspiracy Game Design Articles (mostly on design and production issues)

2D vs. 3D: Fight of the Century?, by Geoff Howland of Lupine Games

Gamasutra - the art and science of making games

Classic Gaming - looking at the good games of the past will teach you how to make good games for the future.

Joystick Nation, by J. C. Herz - mainly valuable for an overview of what gameplays HAVE worked and what affects these games have had on us.

Community

Zenzer.net 2D adventure game design boards

rec.games.design newsgroup: Designing computer and non-computer games

rec.games.design FAQ

rec.arts.int-fiction newsgroup: Creating interactive fiction/text adventures

Interactive Fiction archive

comp.games.development.* newsgroups:

comp.games.development.audio

comp.games.development.art

comp.games.development.industry

comp.games.development.design

comp.games.development.programming.algorithms

comp.games.development.programming.misc

Programming Resources

PyGame - making games with Python and SDL!

JavaGame.net

Game Developers Java User's Group

David Geary's _Graphic Java: Vol. 1: AWT_

If you want to make games in Java, read this book now.

_Cutting-Edge Java Game Programming_ from Coriolis

An excellent book which covers a lot of the game-specific stuff and how to make a game framework, but you'll need to read Graphic Java first.

Black Art of Java Game Programming

So You Want To Be A Pixel Artist?

Ari Feldman's SpriteLib - the cure for "programmer graphics"

Diana Gruber:

Action Arcade Adventure Set book

Fastgraph

Stuff

MUGU - Multi-User Graphical Universe - an open-source graphical MUD

Madmonkey Indie Game Network

Amit's Game Programming Page

Last modified: 2002Nov10
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