Resources

Here are a list of useful resources for game design and development.

Game Design

Three Hundred Mechanics (these are great!)
Evolutionary Game Design
I Have No Words & I Must Design
MVC Pattern for Games
Full list of Gamasutra articles

Content Generation

Procedural Content Generation Wiki
Random Name Generators
Coding Reusable Plot
Generating Terrain: full universes or 3d hills or 2d worms style hills
- More lists of links and a good fractal terrain tutorial
- terrain textures

Game Programming

Object Oriented Game Programming – confusing, but I think it has good ideas…
Game Patterns and more and more and more (decent mvc explanation)
Amit’s Game Programming Information
Tile Based Games and more (flash) and more (also flash) and gamedev article list and …
Roguelike Design Articles and more
Tutorials from Flipcode (pre 2005)
Killer Game Programming in Java - much of the book is online

Artificial Intelligence

Game Art

How to Find Art for Tile Games
Procedural Planet Generation
Pixel Spaceships
Pixel Robots
Pixel Art Tutorial – good basic character sprit tut
More Tutorials – from textures to isometrics
Pixel Isometrics Tutorial – also has nice gallery of buildings
And some more – with sections on iso characters
Isometric drawing with vector art tools
Isometric -> overhead conversion

Blogs of Note

Another Early Morning - nice articles ranging from collision detection to photoshop brush selection. Slick based.
Kev’s Blog - author of slick. Not sure how he manages to do so much.
God Patterns – has interesting articles on random quest generation and scripting. Sadly he uses C#…

Space Related

Lucky’s – tutorials and other info from guy making space game
Space game links - at gamedev forum
Nebula and Star cluster graphics – from Freeorion project
Space ship concept art
Sci-fi Art

Of Possible Interest (haven’t really read these yet)