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Donkey Kong Rom Hack

A dad edited the Donkey Kong rom so that his daughter could play as Pauline instead of Mario.

Story here.

The software he used is Tile Layer Pro. You can find tutorials on YouTube.

Pixel Monster Generator

Single color generator
Three color generator

The Creativity Of Indie Video Games

A video from PBS:

Minecraft Mod

From BoingBoing:

The Biomes O'Plenty Minecraft mod adds wild varieties of landscape to the blocky exploration and building game: wastelands, craggy outcroppings, hazy savannah, ominous woodlands, orchards, and much else besides.

Becoming a Professional Game Designer

Here's a free eBook from iD Tech Camps called 10 Steps to Becoming a Professional Game Designer

The visuals of this puzzle-game-in-development caught my eye & the concept of being inside a synthesizer sounds pretty cool. There's a downloadable prototype at the game website.

FRACT, an in-development independent game from Montreal-based Phosfiend systems is, essentially, a music/puzzle game that combines elements of Tron andRez...before putting players inside a giant synthesizer. In the development walkthrough above, Richard Flanagan and Henk Boom walk players through a big chunk of the game where, by solving puzzles, they activate different parts of what amounts to a gigantic synthesizer, then connect the parts they've activated through a giant, walk-up pattern sequencer to create original music. 

Article at Kotaku

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