Game Maker's Companion

Jacob Habgood worked in the U.K. games industry for seven years, writing console games for Gremlin Interactive and Infogrames/Atari. During this time, he contributed to a wide range of titles and lead the programming teams on MicroMachines (PS2, X-Box and Game Cube) and Hogs of War (PlayStation). Jacob is now a doctoral student at the University of Nottingham, researching the educational potential of computer games. As part of this research, Jacob runs clubs and workshops teaching children and teenagers how to make their own computer games, providing free activities and resources through his website: www.gamelearning.net.

• Fishpod.- Greetings, Game Maker.- Platform Beginnings: An Idea with Legs.- Zool.- Zool: Taking It to the Nth Dimension.- Empowerment: Sliding Ninjas.- Krool’s Forces: Sweetening the Challenge.- Fighting Talk: the Empower Strikes Back.- Shadows on Deck.- Game Design: “Shadows on Deck”.- Storytelling in Theory.- Storytelling Applied.- Of Mice and Pen: Pirate Art.- GML: From Ninja to Pirate.- Rogues’ Rendezvous: Vertically Sliced.- The Story Begins.- Reference.- Feature Reference.