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Literature
YouTube is filling upp with extremely high quality content about game design and game development. This resuts in finding good sources that is compact, practical and relevant is a new serach task. You could spend way to much time just watching new content. You have to be a little conservative, but at the same time you can really get ahead by researching pragmatic, practical how-to-do-it videos. Its really amazing and I have no way of finding just the right data for everyone. Here are some links, but there is so much more out there for you to watch. Here is just a starting-point.
Game Maker's Toolkit : About teaching gameplay in half-life
Game Maker's Toolkit: Why Does Celeste Feel So Good to Play?
Essential learning - Extra Credits
The following YouTube videos series are really, really relevant and sum up the core knowledge you need with regards to core-gameplay, progression and in-game tutoring.
Check out the entire Extra Credits series for more details and knowledge. This series is very, very good!
Pragmatic Teaching - Game Endevour
Example Video from a very pragmatic youtuber with good and practical content. In this example enemy behaviour.
Grafical resources
More Literature
- Gamasutra, www.gamasutra.com
- GameDev.net, www.gamedev.net
- The Designer’s Notebook
- Fundamentals of Game Design (Game Design and Development Series) (Paperback), by Ernest Adams (Author), Andrew Rollings (Author) Pearson Education & Prentice Hall, 2007 ISBN 0-13-168747-6
- Some articles:
- Gameplay progression article.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gameplay, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_mechanics
- http://www.designersnotebook.com/Columns/005_Bad_Game_Designer_1/005_bad_game_designer_1.htm
- http://www.designersnotebook.com/Columns/029_Bad_Game_Designer_2/029_bad_game_designer_2.htm
- http://www.designersnotebook.com/Columns/044_Bad_Game_Designer_3/044_bad_game_designer_3.htm
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