Links to Games Designers and Tech Artists, Enjoy

littleclaude

List of Games Designers - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nx8i6YpMI_KTuWxyiy7AA4kfigLy69LwMctlkyBCluY/edit#gid=0

Can you add a link to any Games Designers or Tech Artist websites, thanks. Any forums, theorists, practitioners, speakers, critiques and designers at the forefront that are worth a mention.

Here is some information to start.

Some theorist type peeps
Jane McGonigal

Jesse Schell

David Perry: Are games better than life?

Hourences, his work is amazing -  http://www.hourences.com/

Polycount Games Design Blog - http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Game_design

Interesting review on games mechanics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzOCkXsyIqo

Great practitioner - Tesla Dev, well worth watching his Youtube channel, amazing guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPglWtCjF3g

Hourences work -

littleclaude

Game Maker's Toolkit - 5 Bits of Good Game Design from 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5EcpT3O0r8

Marshkin

GDC does offer some of their archived talks for free http://www.gdcvault.com/free
 I like a lot of the videos in Game Maker's Toolkit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqJ-Xo29CKyLTjn6z2XwYAw 
The doom one was especially interesting to me. 

littleclaude

Tefel UE4 programmer and currently working on Archeo (strategy game).

https://www.youtube.com/user/ArcheoProject/videos

As for theorists, practitioners, speakers these two are worth brushing up on 

Jesse Schell - http://www.jesseschell.com/  
https://www.ted.com/talks/jesse_schell_when_games_invade_real_life 

David Perry http://dperry.com/

https://www.ted.com/talks/david_perry_on_videogames?language=en

Shrike

Is my forum bugged or does this thread need approval ?
Strange, I can post this. Well wanted to link 2 of my articles
Naming items and value from scarcity
About Playertypes and User comittment

Shrike

Edit: Forums bugged at that time

Shrike

Doublepost

littleclaude

Tom Looman - https://unreal-engine-4.zeef.com/tom.looman

Loads of great tutorials on a range of subjects.

Also, Extra Credits - So You Want To Be a Game Designer - Career Advice for Making Games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQvWMdWhFCc

littleclaude

http://roseburgh.co.uk/wp/

http://www.johnsto.co.uk/design/

stickadtroja

i dont get this thread? "Architect-thread, post all links for aspiring architects to use"
like, surely someone seriously interested would hang out at a forum focused on that?

littleclaude

stickadtroja said:

i dont get this thread? "Architect-thread, post all links for aspiring architects to use"
like, surely someone seriously interested would hang out at a forum focused on that?

No one is asking about being an architect?

This thread is to help anyone trying to get into the dark arts of becoming a Games Designer. Please post a link to any you know.

littleclaude

Hello

Thanks everyone for your links, sorry its been a while. I have made a list of everyone you suggested and added a few, feel free to add more links. I will post the link to the top of this thread. I hope it helps, enjoy.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nx8i6YpMI_KTuWxyiy7AA4kfigLy69LwMctlkyBCluY/edit#gid=0