LOCAL GAME EDUCATION
College Level Programs
- RPI's Games & Simulation Arts and Sciences Major
- Mildred Elley's Associate’s Degree and Undergraduate Certificate Programs in Game Design and 3D Animation
- Champlain College's Electronic Game & Interactive Development Program
- The Game Design Initiative at Cornell University
- RIT's Games and Electronic Entertainment
Summer Programs
- RPI Computer Game Development Academy
- Mildredy-Elley Summer Institute for Game and Multimedia Design
Student IGDA Chapters & Game Development Clubs
GENERAL NEWS & INFORMATION
News
Conferences
- ACM SIGGRAPH Sandbox Video Game Symposium, August 4-5, San Diego, CA
- SIGGRAPH 2006 Conference, July 30 - August 3, Boston, MA
- Advanced Digital Art Production Techniques 2006 Conference, September 23-24, Montreal, Canada
- Montreal Game Summit, Nov 8-9 2006
- Game Developers Conference
Professional & Academic Organizations
- International Game Developers Association
- Digital Games Research Association
- ACM SIGGRAPH
- Computer Graphics Society
Blogs
- Reality Panic - Jason Della Rocca's Blog
- Game * Design * Art * Culture
- Game Matters
- Terra Nova
- Kotaku
- GameSetWatch
Visual Arts
- 3D Buzz
- Concept Art.org
- CG Networks
- The Animation Podcast
- www.cgchar-animation.com
- www.deathfall.com
Programming
Sound
Books & Magazines
- Game Developers Magazine
- The Escapist
- The Design of Every Day Things, Donald A. Norman
- The Animator's Survival Kit, Richard Williams
- Digital Texturing and Painting, Owen Demers
- Digital Lighting and Rendering, Jeremy Birn