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A few more of the trusty RSS-extracted GameSetLinks here, and we're starting out with Spitfire on what you should be looking for in game education, before moving on to Gaynor's GDC guide and some House Of The Underdogs mourning.

Also in this set of links - designing around existing IP for games, and how we can calculate scale and therefore return for lots of tiny indie titles for things like newsgames, based on Global Game Jam numbers.

Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo:

Game-Ism: 'Education: Getting Your Money’s Worth'
Excellent and practical advice about game schools.

Fullbright: GDC Guide 09
2K's Gaynor does an excellent job of tracking down some of the very best GDC lectures this year.

Flash Of Steel: 'RIP HotU'
House Of The Underdogs was not the way to preserve games, but it had a lot of important metadata. Luckily much of the metadata is available via Wayback Machine, though.

Elder Game: MMO game development » Designing For An IP
Some interesting, perhaps controversial thoughts here: 'A movie might take a tiny IP based on a book and literally reinvent it for a completely new audience. A video game cannot do that. Video games must take an already-mainstream IP and play off of it to make something that appeals to existing fans of the IP.'

Games and Men: Video game innovation and storytelling incompatible?
Yep, yet another article discussing You Have To Burn The Rope's IGF nomination. We'll be announcing a slight naming (and judging) redefinition for that particular category going forward, btw, so at least people know what they are expecting when they see nominees there.

Practical Matters in Breaking Newsgames - News Games: Georgia Tech Journalism & Games Project
'What the [Global Game Jam] demonstrates is not the fact that it is easy to produce a good game in two days with a few people. Rather, it demonstrates that a such an thing can be successful when operating at scale.'