Resources

Activities

• 10 Practical Ways to Bring Gamer Superpowers to the Classroom by Jane McGonigal

• Be the Video Game Maker - virtual video tour of game studio with interactive game making

• Beginning Game Programming for Teens with Python - great tutorial to get started

• Board Game Hacking - materials and principles for running your own hack jam

• CodeinGame - game challenges

• CoderDojo Tutorials - coding tutorials shared by CoderDojos around the world

• CS Unplugged - great resource for group activities that lead to understanding underlying concepts of CS

• Games for Change - catalyzing social impact through digital games

• ilearnedtoprogram.com - share how you learned to program

• Shaun the Sheep Game Academy - learn and make Scratch games with characters from the Aardman universe

• Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Game - created by a 5 year-old and her dad

• So you want to be a in the game industry? - hand-out from little bit studio

• Teaching Appmaker to Youth - resources from Digital Harbor Foundation

• This is not a game challenge - create video games to change the world

• Time Machine - contribute a story and/or game to this collaborative gaming project

Read & Listen

• Adventures in Raspberry Pi by Carrie Ann Philbin

• Calling All Girls! Don't Just Play Games. Start Making Your Own at HuffPost

• Can coding really change the world? by Kim Wilkens

• Can We Game Our Way to Better Health? via Science Friday

• Computer Science and Games: Just for Girls! by Gail Carmichael

• Create a Video Game Design Workshop Planner by Kim Wilkens

• Design a Game - a site on game design and development. It is curated by Pietro Polsinelli

• gameful - secret HQ for making world-changing games

• How to Start a Game Company Incubator in a School - Texas high school experience

• Pipeline from Valve - resource created by HS students for HS students interested in the video game industry

• PBS Kids Stream - lots of great ideas for making video games for the STEM challenge

• ScratchED - tutorials and resources for creating games with Scratch

• Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal

• The Big List of Game Making Tools

• Video Game Design (experience from the classroom incorporating science & writing) by Kevin Hodgson

• Video Game Design Challenge (experience from after-school workshops) by Kim Wilkens

• Welcome to the emotion arcade (Science Friday)

• What it's like to attend Girls Make Games, the all-girls game dev summer camp

Research

• Flow in Games by Jenova Chen

• Games & Learning

• GAMES Initiative - Girls Advancing Mathematics, Engineering + Science

• In Gaming, A Shift From Enemies To Emotions

• MIT professors argue for more playful educational games

• Re-Mission improving self-efficacy behaviors in young people undergoing cancer treatments

• SuperBetter: Show Me the Science!

Videos

• Awesome App Race by SciGirls

• Code Hero literacy as planting the seeds of STEAM by Alex Peake

• Day in the Life: Video Game Designer by ConnectEd

• Gaming Can Change the World TEDTalk by Jane McGonigal

• Hello World! Processing documentary

• Hack a banana, make a keyboard! by Jay Silver

• PBS Game/Show a web show about games and culture

• Ponycorns and Programming Kids onTEDx

• Wayward Mansion by Neil Gaiman

• Why I brought Pac-Man to MoMA by Paola Antonelli