• Game Maker Tutorial - simple, step by step video introduction to Game Maker
• Game Maker Tutorial - another step by step basic introduction
• Making a simple game in Game Maker 7 - another decent step by step introduction
• Uploading animated sprites - video demo of how to upload animated sprites

Game Genres

• Video game genre categories - exhaustive list of games by category
• Video game genres - Wikipedia article with good descriptions

Sprites

• South Park Images - a variety of 2D, 3D and character images from South Park Stuff.

Gaming Terminology

• Game design glossary
• Game design dictionary
• GameMaker Academy - resources for Gamemaker learning and use

Online Games from Class

• Super Mario Bros - break thru game for home gaming
• Adventure - Colossal Cave - first text adventure & RPG game ever
• GirlsGoGames.com - girl games
• CSC 5930 Games - games developed by students in Spring 2009 course
• Addicting Games - large collection of online playable games
• Scott Weaver games - Game Maker games designed by a Villanova grad student

Role Playing Game Systems

• Role-playing game system - Wikipedia article with pointers to a number of RPG game systems
• RPG Maker XP - software for creating original role-playing games

Other Game Design Systems & Software

• Game Maker - Lite version available for free download (pro version is $20)
• Torque 2D - excellent, widely used (non-free) system from GarageGames (free demo version)
• Processing - Java-oriented platform for game development
• XNA Game Studio Express - How to develop your own XBOX games in 10 steps (requires C#)
• Sploder - online game design tool for flash-based games
• 3D Adventure Studio - An editor for creating adventure games in style of Gabriel Knight 3
• 3D Gamemaker - commercial, but there seems to be a free version
• DarkBasic Pro - commercial, professional quality
• Gamestudio - free version, time-limited and pro versions
• Blender - free open source 3D content creation suite
• Dimension3 - Mac OS X application for modeling and game design

Tile Map Editors

• Tiled - a generic tile map editor, under consideration by TCNJ

Compatibility Software

• Wine - Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD and Mac OS X
• Crossover - Commercial spinoff of Wine project with same goals

Other Videos

• Breaking in - how to get a job in the video game industry (4:29)

Uncategorized

• Game Design FAQs - Solperama's Game Biz Advice site
• DnD Statistics - pre-rendered statistical tables using the common DnD stats system