Game Design
- Extra Credits - http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/show/extra-credits
- 47 Game Mechanics SCVNGR uses - http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/scvngr-game-mechanics/
Lectures and Tutorials
- Asi Burak, Games for Change, TEDxGotham 2010
- Gabe Zimermann's Google Talk "Fun is the Future: Mastering Gamification"
- Amy Jo Kim's Google talk "Smart Gamification: Designing the Player Journey"
- Jane McGonigal's TED talk "Gaming can make a better world"
- Seth Priebatsch’s TED talk "Building the game layer on top of the world"
- Jesse Schell’s DICE’10 talk "Design outside the box"
- Jesse Schell's G4C Keynote "Make Games, not War"
- Extra Credits Puzzle Games Practicum (S03E22)
- Sociopathic Boardgaming: Fun for Everyone (Ignite talk from Mehal Shah)
- Kai Bai Bo and Other Korean Hand Games by Eat your kimchi
Well designed games
- Portal (series) - http://www.valvesoftware.com/games/portal.html
- Auditorium - http://www.playauditorium.com/
- Glitch - http://www.glitch.com/
- Spent - http://playspent.org/
- Wildfire by Implication - http://wildfire.byimplication.com/
- The Grey Labyrinth, awesome puzzles - http://www.greylabyrinth.com/
Game Mechanics for unique purposes
- Achievement - http://www.incredibox.com/
Go - the game!
- Go: The most beautiful game in the world (Ignite Talk from Helen Cook)
- The Way to Go (learn to play Go)
- KGS Go Server (play Go internationally)
Game Aggregates
- Games for Change -
http://gamesforchange.org/
- Game Ground - http://gameground.com/
- IndiePubGames - http://www.indiepubgames.com/
- Addicting Games -
http://www.addictinggames.com/
Education for game designers
- Standford's GameTheory online course - http://www.game-theory-class.org/
- MIT Open Courseware - http://ocw.mit.edu/
- learn JavaScript through this game -
http://www.codecademy.com/
- Kerning Game - http://type.method.ac/
Game engines
- StarLogo - http://education.mit.edu/projects/starlogo-tng
- Scratch - http://scratch.mit.edu/
- GameMaker - http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker
- Unity - http://unity3d.com/
- Flixel - http://flixel.org/
- Unreal - http://www.unrealengine.com/
Design companies and designers
- Social Chocolate - http://socialchocolate.com/
- Molleindustria (adult content) - http://www.molleindustria.org/
- Curious Sense - http://www.curioussense.com/
- Gamification.co - http://gamification.co
- Schell Games - http://www.schellgames.com/
General Technology Sites
- WeWasteTime - http://wewastetime.wordpress.com/
- Some of the most awesome cutting edge Human Interface -
http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Research/Welcome
- Source for new ideas - http://www.psfk.com/
- Engaget - http://www.engadget.com
