In this two-part tutorial, Jamie Cross walks you through building a winter-themed Angry Birds-style game, from scratch, using the free GameSalad Creator tool. No previous programming or game development experience is required, and you can follow along whether you're using Windows or OS X!

Throughout the course of this Session, Epona Schweer will guide you through business development and honing your Creativity as a game developer. Let's get started!

In this series, you'll learn how to create a synthesizer-based audio engine that can generate sounds for retro-styled games. The audio engine will generate all of the sounds at runtime without the need for any external dependencies such as MP3 files or WAV files. The end result will be a working library that can be dropped effortlessly into your games.

Object-oriented programming (OOP), in its most basic sense, is a programming style used to organize code. Video games can run anywhere from a few thousand lines of code (Cut the Rope has 15,000) to millions of lines of code long (Crysis has over a million). You can see why it’s so important to write code that can be easily modified and maintained. Programming styles, such as OOP, help to organize code in such a way that it becomes easier to maintain and modify.

It's possible to create a Tetris game with a point-and-click gamedev tool, but it might be easier to think at a higher level of abstraction, where the tetromino you see onscreen is only a representation of what's going on in the underlying game. In this series, you'll see exactly what this means...

I’m Matteo, 33 years old and a normal guy. The funny thing is that I'm a game designer. Why is that funny? Because I'm Italian. Maybe in the UK, France, Germany, or Spain it's quite common to know a guy that makes video games for a living, but here in Italy there’s only one big game company and a handful of start ups. So, it's very hard to be a game developer in the country of Leonardo da Vinci, Vivaldi and Valentino Rossi.