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• Dummies.com: Designing Video Games  - Brief tutorial touches on developing ideas, storyboarding, game details, and design documents. Includes links to additional information.
• Flash Tutorials  - Shares information on creating games with Flash, including tile-based scrolling tips, snake game, XML compressor, and sample games.
• Game Developers Conference  - Provides registration information, and a schedule of events and speakers.
• Game Institute  - Provides professional training in the field of video game production and development.
• Game Programming Gems  - Series of game programming books offering practical techniques and information to address multiple game development problems and to shorten timelines for game design.
• GameProgrammer.com  - Provides information on game development along with an online blog.
• Games-Match.com  - Online recruitment for US interactive entertainment professionals.
• Gaming World  - Game development website offering graphical resources, articles, and tutorials.
• How To Make a Tile Based Game with Cocos2D  - Tutorial explains how to create tile-based games for iPhone. Includes game skeleton, map, object layers, movement, and sample project.
• How to Make a Video Game for Free  - Information covers software, hardware, alternatives, step-by-step details, and additional resources and links.
• International Game Developers Association (IGDA)  - Non-profit professional society for video game developers. Site offers updated news, advocacy updates, columns, and forums.
• Jason’s Article on Tile Graphics  - Paper explores vocabulary, plotting tiles, mapping, objects, layers, and walkability.
• OutsideOfSociety  - Dedicated to developing tile-based games in Macromedia Flash. Includes tutorials, examples, news, background, and related links.
• Stencyl  - Game design tool's official site. Features example games, tutorials, program downloads, and developer forums.
• Tile Based Games  - Offers tutorials on creating tile-based games with Macromedia Flash. Includes maps, tiles, movement, ladders, jumping, ground, and slopes.
• Tile-Based Games FAQ version 1.2  - Answers questions about designing tile-based games, including maps, character movement, tilted effects, multiple objects, and portability.