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title: Blogroll
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sub_title: LinkLists
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description: A list of the blogs I read with (some) regularity
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date_pub: 2022-07-21T00:54:00-04:00
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date_upd: 2022-09-16T23:43:00-04:00
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_Compiled 2022-07-21 / Updated 2022-09-17_
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Below are links to some of the blogs that I read, updated as of September 17, 2022.
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### General
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- [Aaron Parecki](https://aaronparecki.com/)
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- [Adactio (Jeremy Keith)](https://adactio.com/)
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- [Alex Shroeder](https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Diary)
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- [Andrew Roach](http://ajroach42.com/)
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- [Aral Balkan](https://ar.al/)
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- [Baldur Bjarnason](https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/) (and [his notes](https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/))
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- [blog.lmorchard.com](https://blog.lmorchard.com/)
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- [The Boston Diaries](http://boston.conman.org//)
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- [Brad Frost](https://bradfrost.com/blog/)
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- [Chris Aldrich](https://boffosocko.com/blog/)
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- [Coding Horror](https://blog.codinghorror.com/)
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- [Jim Nielsen](https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/)
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- [jwz](https://jwz.com/blog/)
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- [Shtetl-Optimized (Scott Aaronson)](https://scottaaronson.blog/)
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- [Tantek Çelik](http://tantek.com/)
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### Technology
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- [Stratechery](https://stratechery.com/)
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- [Cyberdeck Cafe](https://cyberdeck.cafe/)
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- [Mozilla Hacks](https://hacks.mozilla.org/)
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- [HACKADAY](https://hackaday.com/)
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- [N-O-D-E.net](https://n-o-d-e.net/)
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### Tabletop Gaming
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- [The Alexandrian](https://thealexandrian.net/)
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- [The Blog of Holding](http://blogofholding.com/)
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- [Eldritch Fields](http://eldritchfields.blogspot.com/)
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- [Goblin Punch](https://goblinpunch.blogspot.com/)
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- [Grognardia](https://grognardia.blogspot.com/)
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- [Silverarm](https://silverarmpress.com/)
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- [Sly Flourish](https://slyflourish.com/)
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- [Strange Magic](http://strangemagic.robertsongames.com/)
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- [The Tao of D&D](https://tao-dnd.blogspot.com/)
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- [Traverse Fantasy](https://traversefantasy.blogspot.com/)
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- [Welcome to the Deathtrap](https://deathtrap-games.blogspot.com/)
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### YouTube Channels / Vlogs
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- [The 8-Bit Guy](https://www.youtube.com/c/The8BitGuy)
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- [Bandit's Keep](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-gfEp3GDT0wT7bdU-CeSw)
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- [Cinema Wins](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL8h3ri2WN_-IbviBlWtUcQ)
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- [The Coridor Crew](https://www.youtube.com/user/samandniko)
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- [Dungeon Craft](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD6ERRdXrF2IZ0R888G8PQg)
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- [Dungeon Masterpiece](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5l5MjE1H1NP7Gh6VOZNfsQ)
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- [Friday Night Arcade](https://www.youtube.com/user/MediaGlitchHD)
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- [Hak5](https://www.youtube.com/user/Hak5Darren)
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- [History Buffs](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggHoXaj8BQHIiPmOxezeWA)
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- [Indigo Gaming](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTRohxutThBffdcP3H6O0Zg)
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- [Jeff Geerling](https://www.youtube.com/user/geerlingguy)
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- [Master the Dungeon](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrPmuq5_AJ_DvZ9OXQrFEFw)
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- [Matthew Colville](https://www.youtube.com/user/mcolville)
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- [Oliver Harper's Reviews and Retrospectives](https://www.youtube.com/user/ollyh82)
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- [Questing Beast](https://www.youtube.com/c/QuestingBeast)
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- [Rhystic Studies](https://www.youtube.com/user/themagicmansam33)
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- [RPG Retro Reviews](https://www.youtube.com/user/captcorajus)
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- [Seth Skorkowsky](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQs8-UJ7IHsrzhQ-OQOYBmg)
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- [TheCrafsMan SteadyCraftin](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzsjHlc0WRwZYwlinsmtM4w)
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- [Techmoan](https://www.youtube.com/user/Techmoan)
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- [Tolarian Community College](https://www.youtube.com/c/tolariancommunity)
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- [Toy Galaxy](https://www.youtube.com/c/ToyGalaxyTV)
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- [Voidstar Labs (Zack Freedman)](https://www.youtube.com/user/ZackFreedman)
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title: Free Game Development Resources
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sub_title: LinkLists
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description: A list of free assets (images and such) that one can use for developing a game.
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date_pub: 2014-03-10T20:53:00-05:00
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date_upd: 2022-09-17T00:51:00-04:00
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_Compiled 2014-03-10 / Updated 2022-09-17_
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[As noted elsewhere](/linklists/pd_comics.html), my total inability to draw has often hindered my creative processes, forcing me to rely on overlong text descriptions or poorly-drawn sketches. While researching other possible graphic sources, I came across several sites brimming with resources for game developers like myself, who wish to use <abbr title="Creative Commons">CC</abbr> and <abbr title="Public Domain">PD</abbr> art to make new games.
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Below are links to some of the sources I've been using, compiled as of March 10, 2014. The links were last verified (and one was updated) on September 17, 2022.
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### Links
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- [Art Assets for Game Developers](http://letsmakegames.org/resources/art-assets-for-game-developers/) - The name says it all. Part of [LetsMakeGames](http://letsmakegames.org/), a Australian non-profit that supports game development.
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- [OpenGameArt.org](https://opengameart.org/) - Also listed on the site above, this site includes free sprites, tiles, sounds, and other useful bits.
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- [Game-icons.net](http://game-icons.net/) - A collection of SVG-based game-related icons that can be used in most any digital (or paper) games.
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- [Ambrosine's Game Creation Resources](http://www.ambrosine.com/resource.php) - A searchable database of game engines and resources, plus lots of info about classic games.
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- [Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/) - A searchable database of over a million public domain images.
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- [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) - Boasting of 46 million media items, this is the media collecting arm of the Wikimedia Foundation (the keepers of the [Great Oracle of All Knowledge](https://www.wikipedia.org)).
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title: LinkLists
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description: Lists of recently verified links to to useful resources on the internet.
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date_pub: 2015-11-11T14:17:00-05:00
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_All Links Last Verified: 2022-09-17_
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As a self-professed serial enthusiast, I often go on tangents of research about very specific topics. When the topic is somewhat obscure or "retro", I usually find myself wading through pages and pages of search results that go to dead links, inactive sites or, even worse, straight-out bad information. When that happens, I'll often collect a page of the good links, tack a date on the top (indicating when I last checked the links), and file them away as LinkLists.
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Some of the ones I've posted here:
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- [Blogroll](/linklists/blogroll.html) - Blogs I like to read.
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- [Free Game Development Resources](/linklists/free_gamedev.html) - A collection of free assets to use while designing games (digital or analog).
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- [MUCK Resources](/linklists/muck_stuff.html) - I briefly got into multi-user text gaming, and compiled these links while I was attempting to figure it out.
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- [Public Domain Comic Book Resources](/linklists/pd_comics.html) - Recently, I've discovered a treasure-trove of fantastic, completely-free images, hidden in the comic books of the 40s and 50s.
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- [Tabletop Role-Playing Game Resources](/linklists/tabletop_rpg.html) - A bunch of great, _free_ resources for starting and running role-playing game campaigns.
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- [Web and JavaScript Game Design Tutorials](/linklists/web_game_tuts.html) - Inspired by a request from my nephew, who wished to learn the dark arts of coding.
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title: MUCK Resources
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description: A list of free assets (images and such) that one can use for developing a game.
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date_pub: 2011-09-15T21:43:00-04:00
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_Compiled 2011-09-15 / Verified 2022-09-17_
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A good friend and myself worked for a while on building up a <abbr title="Multi-User Chat/Created/Computer/Character/Carnal Kingdom">MUCK</abbr>, running Fuzzball 6.0.
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Unfortunately, we were a little late to the party, and it proved difficult to find good actively-maintained online resources. To that end, I created this list of active MUCK-related sites, as of September 15th, 2011. The links were last verified on September 17, 2022.
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I hope it serves someone well.
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_Update 2015-11-11 - Since it's been 4 years since I first wrote this list, I should mention that I actually wound up becoming frustrated with the limitations of the MUCK software, and abandoned it for the much better-documented [LambdaMOO](http://www.moo.mud.org/), before ultimately losing interest in the whole endeavour._
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### Links
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- [The official Fuzzball site](http://www.fuzzball.org/) - Links to the official repos and docs, presented via a (fake?) telnet session. - _OFFLINE as of 2018-05-20_
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- [Ginger's MUCK Help Page](http://www.soappuppy.com/muck/) - Scripts, documentation, and other “Useful Stuff”.
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- [The Mink MUCK Manual](http://www.rdwarf.com/users/mink/muckman/toc.html) - Good material, but unfortunately most of the rest of the links on this site aren't good.
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title: Public Domain Comic Book Resources
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description: A list of sites housing scans from a bunch of public domain comic books from the 40s and 50s.
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date_pub: 2013-10-13T18:12:00-04:00
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_Compiled 2013-10-13 / Verified 2022-09-17_
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My total inability to draw has often hindered my creative processes, forcing me to rely on overlong text descriptions or poorly-drawn sketches. Recently, I've discovered a treasure-trove of fantastic, completely-free images, hidden in the comic books of the 40s and 50s.
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Below are links to some of the sources I've been using, compiled as of October 13th, 2013. The links were last verified on September 17, 2022.
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- [Digital Comic Museum](https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/) - The BEST source I've found for full comic scans (even if they aren't allegedly all public domain).
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- [Public Domain Super Heroes](https://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Public_Domain_Super_Heroes) - A wonderful resource for PD / Open Source superhero characters (including some modern ones).
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- [Golden-Age Comic Book Superheroes & Villains Encyclopedia](http://www.herogoggles.com/) - Just what the name says, a large list of comic book heroes and villains from the Golden Age.
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- [Copyrights and Comics of 1940s](http://www.herogoggles.com/copyright1.html) - A great article detailing the results of the author's search for the copyrights and renewals of specific titles from the 1940s. Also does a good job of describing the general process of renewal, pre-1978.
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- [The Online Books Page: Copyright Registration and Renewal Records](http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/index.html) - Links to copyright / renewal info by year for 1891 - 1978.
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- [US Copyright Office](https://www.copyright.gov/records/) - Copyrights and renewals since 1978 (including renewals for items copyright after 1950 or so).
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title: Tabletop Role-Playing Game Resources
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description: A list of free rules, tables, and other role-playing game resources.
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_Compiled 2022-09-16_
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I've been an <abbr title="Role-Playing Game">RPG</abbr> enthusiast for 30+ years, and after a long hiatus, I've been lucky enough to spend the past few years playing (and running) regular games. Thanks to the explosion of content from the <abbr title="Old-School Renaissance">OSR</abbr> (a ["play style movement"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_School_Renaissance) inspired by the early days of RPGs), there are a number of great, _free_ resources for starting and running campaigns.
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Below are links to some of the sites I've been using for my own games, compiled as of September 17, 2022.
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- [DnD Speak](https://www.dndspeak.com/) - Excellent collection of tools, tables, and lists to inspire your games.
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- [Dyson's Dodecahedron](https://dysonlogos.blog/) - Some of the best maps on the interwebs.
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- [Fantasy Name Generators](https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/) - An endless variety of names for all kinds of things.
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- [The Frugal GM](https://www.frugalgm.com/) - Tons of free gaming resources.
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- [A Knight at the Opera](https://knightattheopera.blogspot.com/) - "OSR Gaming for Tools & Reviews for GMs".
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- [Kosmic Dungeon](https://kosmicdungeon.com/) - An excellent collection of free maps.
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- [Old-School Essentials System Reference Document](https://oldschoolessentials.necroticgnome.com/srd/) - Like classic D&D, but easier to read, and available for free.
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- [tenfootpole.org](https://tenfootpole.org/ironspike/) - Lots and lots of module reviews.
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title: Web and JavaScript Game Design Tutorials
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description: A list of sites housing scans from a bunch of public domain comic books, mostly from the 40s and 50s.
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_Compiled 2012-07-23 / Verified 2022-09-17_
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The other day (_over a decade ago, as of last update_), my nephew asked me for some advice on learning how to code. Having been a code monkey myself since 3rd grade, I can appreciate the desire to learn coding in general, and game development (his preferred specialty) in particular.
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But, things have change alot in the <strike>25</strike> 30+ years since I first learned, and I suspect that learning BASIC on an Apple IIe is no longer the preferred starting method (or even terribly useful). So, after some brief thought, I suggested he learn the art of JavaScript (and the HTML that surrounds it), which I prefer for several reasons:
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1. it's simple (or, at least, can be, with the right libraries),
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2. it's powerful, thanks to the modern JS engines in Chrome and Firefox, and
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3. it's relevant in this modern, interconnected world.
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So, in order to simplify the transfer of knowledge for him, I present the Web and JavaScript Game Design Tutorials LinkList, as compiled July 23rd, 2012. The links were last verified on September 17, 2022.
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- [W3Schools.com](https://www.w3schools.com/) - I've been a fan of this site for years, and found them to be an invaluable resource as I honed my own JavaScript skills. They have basic and advanced tutorials in both [HTML](https://www.w3schools.com/html/) and [JavaScript](https://www.w3schools.com/js/), as well as lots of examples and references.
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- [Tizag](http://www.tizag.com/) - Well I'm not particularly familiar with this site, they look like they have some good from-the-ground-up tutorials on everything from [HTML](http://www.tizag.com/beginnerT/) and [JavaScript](http://www.tizag.com/javascriptT/) to [Perl](http://www.tizag.com/perlT/) and [Flash](http://www.tizag.com/flashTutorial/) (and lots of stuff in between).
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- [Developing HTML5 Canvas Games for Facebook with JavaScript](http://manuel.kiessling.net/2012/04/02/tutorial-developing-html5-canvas-games-for-facebook-with-javascript-part-1/) - A more specific tutorial, written by a developer who wanted to teach his 5-year-old son about video games. Steps through the building of a simple space-shooting game.
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- [Codeacademy](https://www.codecademy.com/) - A relatively new tutorial site, with a social bend. Sign in via Facebook, and earn badges and achievments while you learn. Looks like it might be a great way to learn, as it seems to start right out with an interactive JavaScript command line.
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- [Eloquent JavaScript](https://eloquentjavascript.net/) - A free ((Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution, for those that care about such things.)) ebook designed to be a "modern introduction to programming" by way of the JavaScript language.
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- _The Very Simple Tic-Tac-Toe Tutorial Using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript_ (formerly at http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/247361-simple-tic-tac-toe-using-html5-css3-and-javascript/) - The name says it all. A single page tutorial posted to the dreamincode.net forums, covering the step-by-step process of developing a simple game. Link down as of 2022-09-17\_
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- [HTML5 Games 101 - An introductory tutorial to HTML5 Games](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/230794/HTML5-Games-101-An-introductory-tutorial-to-HTML5) - Another step-by-step tutorial, this one demonstrating how to build a simple snake game.
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- [MDN - Learn Web Development](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn) _(New)_ - The Mozilla Developer's Network is a treasure trove of information, with tutorials and reference material for all levels of developer.
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