Game Design, Mod Recruitment, and You

I have been reading lots of these mod-idea and mod-recruitment posts and I just wanted to share some info with you. Some of these talk about Game Design itself others talk about getting into the business. All in all its good reading and very good points are made whether you want to be in the business or just make a mod for the hell of it.

http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/game-book/Coverpage.html
Basically a whole book which an updated version could cost you about 35$...

http://www.discovergames.com/how2sell.htm
Read.

http://www.sloperama.com/advice/idea.htm
Lessons 13 in particular

http://www.gamedev.net
Tons of articles, tutorials, and recommendations for books.

http://www.gamasutra.com/
I just recently found this. Its a game-design magazine. I've found some interesting reads, one of them being underrated games.

http://www.bluesnews.com/
Gaming news.

Anyway, I hope this helps someone with their game design, programming, writing, or other related talent/hobby/job.

[SAS]Solid Snake said:

Mmmm interesting, but I doubt any one is really going to bother looking at any of those sites.

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did you?

And I clicked on the links Switch sent before I read your post. I mean it isnt hard to take a little bit of your time to read. Especially if it helps you in the long run. Just trying to be helpful.

Thanks for the links switch, bookmarked. Now if I just had some money to fly to San Diego.

And since you posted those another is E3.. but everyone should know about E3....

Funny you should say that. I was going to note how your recruitment post is a good one, if not the only, from the recent posts. Not only does it make me want to help you if I could, it makes me want to hone (sp?) my mapping skills so if another positions arises I could fill it. Unfortunately, my mapping experience is in HL and some HL2/Source mapping. I did make one crappy UT2k3 DM map...

This just doesnt happen here or in the Unreal world either. It happens in every mod forum. It just so happens I like the unreal engine and its support is far greater than HL2's.

Well, between reading, learning, and applying what you read to what you are learning