where i can get good tutorials about basic game design

[ashleytyler]

i want to learn how to design games, i would like to have some free website where i can get some good tutorials, i think video tutorials would be best for learning ??

[yaustar]

Learning about Game Theory would be useful for game designers: http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/game-t...ents/downloads

Other then that, you can try the GDC Vault for more talks, http://www.sirlin.net/ has some good stuff as well. Theory of fun book has been recommended by quite a few people to read.

[Bigaz]

cheers yaustar, that first link was pretty helpful.

[jeleyinte]

I often visit Youtube to get some brilliant game design tutorials...

[EvilLlama]

South African game dev magazine. Has a feature where they interview puzzle game designers that should be useful
http://devmag.org.za/2011/05/02/how-...gned-guy-lima/

game studies articles by same guy who wrote Imaginary Games, a game studies book that seems pretty good in terms of digestiveness and author-knows-their-stuff-ness
http://www.kotaku.com.au/author/chris-bateman/

Brenda Brathwaite has a book, 10 challenges for game designers that has been recommended

A good post on gamasutra worth reading about problems teaching (and thus learning) game design:
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/Lewis...e_Problems.php

Haven't actually listened to it yet, but GameProdigyDotCom video tutorials seem promising:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheGameP.../2/1HoSIN-NRwE

course website for Jesse Schell's game design class:
http://gamedesign.etc.cmu.edu/

[philtuby]

great links thank you.
i have so much information to go over in the next holiday days.

[wt4bm]

i've had a hard time looking for those nice tutorials. i'm so glad that you guys posted those links. thanks.