Fall+2009+Links

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= = This page contains links to interesting sites involving gaming and complimenting in-class discussions. Some links may be articles, while others may be online games. __**Additional links can also be found at the end of the lecture notes.**__ = =

Students are encouraged to discuss the contents of these links (and others) in the Discussions section of this site.

This page will be updated periodically.

= = If any student has a link they wish to be posted, please email me the links (sweitz@lccc.edu) or post them to the discussion area, and I will evaluate them and then add them to this page. Be aware that if submitted links are not related to gaming or the class, or if they have unacceptable content, they will not be posted to this page.

__**9/27/09 **__

More Game Design!

A .pdf version of the Game Design Lectures has been uploaded. You can find it [|here] and in the Lecture Notes section of the site.

__**9/01/09 **__

Game Design!

As we begin discussing game design, there are many resources that you can use to improve your game-design skills. There are two specific resources that are extremely helpful in telling what you problem to avoid, so your games will have a better chance of succeeding:

The first is the No Twinkie Database which is a list of common problems in games that, if done, should force anyone to say: "Bad game designer; no twinkie!" Thus, you both simultaneously scold the bad game designer, and deny him or her a pastry (and, as we all know, the lack of a spongecake dessert is the real punishment).

The second link is to The 400 Project which is a work-in-progress site about game design. The link goes directly to an in-progress list of 112 (thus far) rules regarding game design.

 Though both of these links deal predominantly with video-game design, many of the principles can be applied to any game design (including the games being developed for this class). These links are meant to supplement (and in many areas exceed) the class discussions on game design. Another resource that you can use, from which many of the points in the class discussion are drawn, is the [|Game Design PDF] file, created by game designer Dr. Rich Staats.

__**8/25/09 **__

Below are various useful links for images and information on older games

(IMPORTANT NOTE: Many of these sites are either encyclopedic in nature or do not provide references and resources for the information presented within them. As such, they may not be reliable sources for use in any research papers. Please contact me prior to using any of the information found in these sites within your papers).

**The Killer List of Video Games**

A Site Containing Information and Images From Nearly Every Arcade Video Game Ever Created

**Pong Story**

A Site is Devoted to the History of Early Video-Game Development

**Video Game Critic**

Ignoring the Short and Relatively Uninformative Reviews, the Links to the Left of the Page Reveal Images of Games from Most Major Video Game Consoles

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