Reference |
Category |
Annotation |
www.educationarcade.org |
games
& learning |
Education
Arcade is a network of US scholar and
game industry professionals |
www.seriousgames.org |
games
& learning |
Dedicated
to the design of games for purposes other
than pure entertainment |
www.marcprensky.com |
games
& learning |
Author
of 'Digital Game-Based Learning'.
This is Marc's own site |
www.andrewstapleton.com |
games
& learning |
Australian
site on nexus between games, play, design
and learning |
www.becta.org.uk |
games
& learning |
UK
site on games and learning |
www.gdaa.com.au |
game
industry |
Game
Developers' Association of Australia website |
www.igda.org |
game
industry |
International
Game Developers Association website |
www.gamasutra.com |
game
design |
All
that is the art and science of games |
www.theesa.com |
game
industry |
Entertainment
Software Association (US) site on facts
about the game industry |
www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/
gmaker/ |
software |
Game
Maker software |
www.discreet.com |
software |
Discreet,
makers of 3D Studio Max and gMax. |
www.turbosquid.com/gmax |
software |
gMax
download |
www.macromedia.com |
software |
Macromedia
for Flash and Director for making games |
http://www.vancouver.wsu.
edu/fac/peabody/game-book/Coverpage.html |
game
design |
Chris
Crawford's seminal text 'The Art of Computer
Game Design'. Available for free online |
www.gdconf.com |
game
design |
The
Game Developers Conference in the US |
www.sumea.com.au |
game
industry |
Local
Australian and New Zealand game industry
news |
www.wired.com/news/games/
0,2101,59855,00.html |
games
& learning |
Wired
article on games and learning |
www.sloperama.com |
game
design |
Game
designer, Tom Sloper, puts together this
own views on game design |
www.funbrain.com |
software |
Pearson
Publishing games site. Has games by Year
level in Teachers section (covers K-12),
or by topic |
www.tsof.edu.au/events/axpo/
pdfs/AHS_flyer.pdf |
games
& design & learning |
Activity
designed for students to develop own game.
Outlines activity and links to examples
produced by students Was part of Exciting
Learning Expo 2003 |
www.school.discovery.com |
teaching
resource |
Discovery
Channel's school oriented site has some
great resources for teachers on a variety
of topics |
www.simcity.com
www.thesims.ea.com
www.simcity3000unlimited.
ea.com/us/guide/tips/teachers/ |
teaching
& game resource |
Available
on the official SimCity 3000 unlimited
site |
www.80smusiclyrics.com/
games/ |
game
resource |
This
site is full of classic '80s retro style
games free to play and download |
www.abc.net.au/acience/play/
games.htm |
software |
Links
to many games, including The Lab with
loads of science games |
www.agdc.com.au |
game
industry |
he
Australian Game Developer's Conference
in held every year (Nov/Dec) and includes
an Academic Summit |
www.atari.com
www.atari.com.au |
game
publisher |
Atari's
official sites |
www.bfi.org.uk/education/
research/teachlearn/editplay/ |
games
& learning |
Funded
by the British Film Institute this research
explores how to use games to tell stories |
www.civ3.com |
game |
Official
site of Sid Meier's classic Civilization
III |
www.disneyland.com
www.disneyworld.com
www.dreamworld.com.au |
theme
park |
Official
site of Disneyland
Official site of Disneyworld
Official site of Dreamworld |
www.ea.com
www.eagames.com.au |
game
publisher |
Electronic
Arts' official US and Australian sites |
www.flashdeveloper.nl/
g_flash_game.html |
development
resource |
A
great resource that lists a heap of site
on developing all kinds of games in Flash |
www.futurecity-phoenix.org/FCGuidelines.htm |
teaching
resource |
A
US competition that asks students to use
SimCity to develop their own city |
www.futurenet.com/edge/
www.gameculture.com
www.games2train.com |
game
culture
game culture
teaching resource |
Official
site of Edge magazine
Sue Morris' great site on game culture
Marc Prensky's Games2Train have a number
of game resources |
www.gotoandplay.it |
development
resource |
Another
Flash game website |
www.howstuffworks.com |
teaching
resource |
A
great site all about "How stuff works"! |
www.learner.org/exhibits/
parkphysics/ |
teaching
resource (theme park) |
Educational
resource by USA's Annenberg/CPB on theme
park physics |
www.machinima.com |
games
& film |
Site
dedicated to the art of 'machinima' (using
games as a means to make films) |
www.mcli.dist.maricopia.edu/
director/ |
development
resource |
This
excellent resource is full of Director
examples, scripts and just about anything
to do with Director development |
www.mediamacros.com |
development
resource |
A
website with heaps of scripts and tips
for developing with Flash and Director...including
games |
www.microsoft.com/australia/
www.microsoft.com/games
www.microsoft.com/games/
ageofmythology/
www.microsoft.com/games/
riseofnations/ |
game
publisher and games |
A
range of Microsoft sites |
www.mindstorms.com/ |
robots |
Lego's site for the Mindstorms robotic
development system |
www.movieworld.com.au/ |
theme
park |
Official
site of Australia's Movieworld on the
Gold Coast |
www.nintendo.com
www.nintendo.com.au |
game
publisher |
Nintendo's
official websites |
www.oflc.gov.au |
government |
Federal
government's Office of Film and Literature
Classification group |
www.paranoidproductions.com |
game
resource |
Richard
Rouse's (of Game Design Theory + Practice)
official site |
www.pogo.com |
development
resource |
Pogo,
part of Electronic Arts, is full of games
with free trials available |
www.shockwave.com |
game
resource |
A
great site for a whole lot of Shockwave
based games |
www.teachnet.com |
teaching
resource |
Has
games and other resources for teachers |
www.teem.org/uk/publications |
games
& learning |
An
excellent resource for teachers including
free reports on games in education |
www.themedattraction.com |
teaching
resource (theme park) |
Comprehensive
site on a variety of aspects on designing
theme parks |
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