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I’ve been reading a series of articles about a “Game Design Canvas”. The series focuses on game design, broken into 5 catagories. I recommend giving the articles a read.

There are currently three published, and presumably at least two more on the way.

• The Game Design Canvas: An Introduction
• “Feeling Powerful” as a Core Experience
• The Game Design Canvas: Base Mechanics

The following resources are of interest to me, and will be lacking in some areas. I write for myself, and as a side-effect I hope there are others who find my writing helpful as well. I believe knowledge is power so the following resources are geared toward resources to help you become a better game developer, as opposed to “free resources”. With that being said, the following is a list of resources for the enthusiast game developer.

Magazines

• Develop
• Dev.Mag
• The Gamer’s Quarter

Blogs

• Dev.Mag – South African independent game development blog.
• auntie pixelante – Read it for the breakdown of other games’ design.
• Lost Garden – In love with Flash, but covers a wide range of development topics.
• Applied Game Design – Blog of veteran game designer, Brenda Brathwaite.
• DPerry Wiki – An industry veteran, check out his wiki for a more comprehensive list than this.
• IndieGames: The Weblog – The latest and greatest indie games posted here. Check out the competition.
• The Independent Gaming Source – Like IndieGames, but maintained by Derek Yu, creator of Spelunky.

Tools

• Ubuntu – Free operating system, a particular flavor of Linux, alternative to Windows or Mac.
• Eclipse – Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
• Slick – Java game programming library.