Hackforge Summer Games Resource List
August 17, 2013
by Mita Williams in Games
Here are some of the resources shared on Saturday’s launch of the Hackforge Summer Games contest. Share yours in the comments!
Randy McGall’s List
- A Dictionary of Video Game Theory Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds, 2005 Jesper Juul http://www.half-real.net/dictionary/
- Behavioral Game Design Microsoft, John Hopson, 2001 http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3085/behavioral_game_design.php?page=1
- Designing around a Core Mechanic Funstorm http://www.funstormgames.com/blog/2012/06/designing-around-a-core-mechanic/
- Game Mechanics Gamification Wiki
- Game Mechanics Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_mechanics
- MDA: A Formal Approach to Game Design and Game Research, 2001 Robin Hunicke, Marc LeBlanc, Robert Zubek http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/pubs/MDA.pdf
- MDA Model for Game Design Talk, six part video Adelaide University Game Development Club, Dylan Sale, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv36o41OcLw&list=PL76402B306F2168E6&index=1
Anthony Garreffa’s Game Loop Presentation & Materials
- Presentation Slides https://docs.google.com/
presentation/d/ 1oTuIPYY7cyhj7NbHymp3AwPxWtQih 0c78TlT6P5O8Hs/edit?usp= sharing
- Demo Repo https://github.com/jhive/1945-
demo - Ash Seed Repo https://github.com/jhive/
ashseed
Doug Sartori’s Presentation & Code
- Minimax Algorithm https://github.com/dsartori/
minimax - AI Talk http://hackf.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/2013_summer_games_ai_talk.pdf
HTML5 Game Development Resources by Jeff Szusz
Choosing an Engine
- Which HTML5 Game Engine is right for you? http://html5gameengine.com/
- Breakouts – Helping you choose a JavaScript game engine http://city41.github.io/breakouts/
Other Resources
- Articles and blogs about game development gamasutra.com
- Forum html5gamedevs.com
- Tutorials and articles html5gamedevelopment.com
Popular Engines
- impactjs.com – commercial game dev engine
- craftyjs.com – open source component/entity game engine
- html5quintus.com – open source game engine
Other resources
Video game engines for young people ages 8 and up
- Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu/
- Gamestar mechanic: http://gamestarmechanic.com/
- Stencyl : http://stencyl.com/
- Kodu: http://www.kodugamelab.com/About
Sell your game
- MaRS Startup Library: Digital Gaming: http://www.cdmn.ca/mars-startup-library-digital-gaming/
- Chasing the Whale: Examining the ethics of free-to-play games
Game Art Resources
UPDATE:
Big thanks to Jessica Lowe and her computer science class in California for recommending this resource