Game Design Ideas & Articles Megapost

[Jubal]

A huge list of useful links to guides and idea-generators and articles on various aspects of game design & game development. Please make this list about DESIGN and DEVELOPMENT stuff - that is to say, it should exclude art and programming and other nuts-and-bolts stuff, it's about the development process, getting started, designing games, all that side of things. Do suggest links below!


Getting Started
Making Games: The First Steps
BeerDrinkingBurke on how to get started as a computer game dev.

Adventure Game Design
Adventure game puzzle design
A huge and useful list of other puzzle design links, and some thoughts on including their wisdom in a game.

Miscellaneous & General
Diceroll to Desktop
Some thoughts by Jubal on tabletop vs computer gamedev.