Links & Resources
suggested links and resources for COMP 488
This list contains a variety of information, suggestions, and generally interesting material.
This section will be updated on a weekly basis during the semester.
If you have any suggestions for additions to this section of the site, please feel free to contact me.
Course links will be updated during the semester.
Articles & Papers
- Mayer, R.E., Mautone, P., and Prothero, W. Pictorial aids for learning by doing in a multimedia geology simulation game. Journal of Educational Psychology 94. 2002. PP.171-185.
- The Legend of Zelda walkthrough
- Zork game walkthrough
Designers & Developers
Games - play & stream online
- Draughts/Checkers
- Microsoft’s Space Simulator - 1994
- The Oregon Trail - Play Online
- President Elect - 1988 Editions
- SimEarth - 1990
- SimLife - 1992
- Space Invaders - Sega and Taito
- Zork - original version for PDP
- Zork 1 - Apple 2e version
Mockup & Prototype Tools - a few examples
- Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator
- Apple’s Keynote (useful for iOS)
- Figma
- Flinto
- Framer
- Google Drawings
- InVision
- Proto.io
- Sketch3
- XCode Interface Builder
Music and Inspiration
- Gaming music playlist 1
- Gaming music playlist 2
- Really Slow Motion - YouTube Channel
References - Pygame
- pygame.draw
- pygame.event
- pygame.image
- pygame.key
- pygame.locals
- pygame.sprite
- pygame.time
- pygame.transform
Videos - games and trailers
- Abzu trailer - YouTube
- Animal Crossing
- BBC News - World of Warcraft - YouTube
- Black and White review - YouTube
- Colin McRae Rally - YouTube
- Journey PS4 trailer - YouTube
- King’s Quest, Dead End Dancer - YouTube
- Last moments of Asheron’s Call - YouTube
- Populous on the Amiga - Youtube
- Sid Meier’s Civilization, Youtube
- The Last Starfighter, YouTube
- Super Mario Bros. - Level 1
Videos - notes &c.
- 8-bit and ‘8-bitish’ graphics
- BBC - Algorithms - YouTube
- BBC - The Code, YouTube
- Bryan Alexander - Preparing Teachers and Students to Succeed in an Open-Ended Future
- Paper Prototyping
- GDC - Emergent Behaviour in AI - YouTube
- TED 2004 - Flow, the secret to happiness
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi talks about Flow
- Ted Presentation - The Magic Ingredient…(Pixar)
- The Genius of Shigeru Miyamoto
- Touring SOE’s Usability Lab
Videos - various
- Google Prototyping Series
- Learn Git in 20 minutes - YouTube
- Ted - Birth of virtual reality as an art form
- potential of VR as an art form
- Ted - Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future
- Drones, small flying machines…
- Video Games: The Movie
Websites - development
Websites - games
- Abzu
- Animal Crossing
- Asheron’s Call - Wikipedia
- Atari Asteroids
- BioLogica - Current
- BioLogica - Legacy
- Call of Duty
- Colin McRae Rally
- Command & Conquer
- Deus Ex Wiki
- Diablo - Wikipedia
- Diablo III - console
- Draughts/Checkers
- Geniverse - Explore heredity and genetics by breeding and studying virtual dragons
- Journey
- Journey - PS3
- Journey - Wikipedia
- King’s Quest
- The Oregon Trail - Wikipedia entry
- Physics of a Bouncing Ball
- Proteus
- Rainbow Six Siege
- The Sims
- Space Invaders - Wikipedia
- Space Quest
- Spore - 2008
- StarCraft
- World of Warcraft
- Zork - Downloads
Websites - various
- Electronic Arts. Spore Prototypes. http://www.spore.com/comm/prototypes. 2008.
- GameDev.net
- Global Game Jam
- LifeWiki
- Maxis
- Object Oriented aggregation
- Richard Guy
- The Sims - Free Will
- Theban Mapping Project - KV 17
- Video Game Design Schools
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