What are some useful and good game design books for beginners?

I'm fifteen years old, however I've wanted to work in the field of Game design/Software development for a few years now, and i need to learn some things, enough to have some sufficient basic knowledge for when I am really about to begin my studies. Please give me the title to some good books, or tell if books will really help me. Maybe some alternative methods of learning at this age?What are some useful and good game design books for beginners?If you want to learn game programming then here are some resources that you might find to be helpful...





You can go to the following websites which has whole bunch of FREE programming languages, game engines, tutorials, and other information for game programming:





This website has free versions of DarkBASIC Professional and FPS Creator

http://www.thegamecreators.com/





http://www.ambrosine.com/resource.html



http://dsgamemaker.com/





Game Maker is a popular free program for creating video games:

http://www.instantfundas.com/2007/10/gam鈥?/a>





YouTube also has a whole bunch of tutorials for Game Maker and game programming:



Game Maker tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_ty鈥?/a>





You can also use a search engine like Google.com to find more free tutorials, online forums and other information for learning game programming



GameMaker tutorial

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en%26amp;q=Gam鈥?/a>





There are many online forums for game programming and etc鈥ou can ask them for any advice and information



GameMaker forum

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en%26amp;q=Gam鈥?/a>





You can also go to your local library or store or an online store like www.amazon.com to find a whole bunch of good books, DVDs, programs and etc. for game programming:





DarkBasic is a programming language designed for creating 2D and 3D video games

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=se鈥?/a>





Book for Game Maker program

http://www.amazon.com/Game-Makers-Appren鈥?/a>





Introduction to Game Programming...sometimes it would be better to get a good book for game programming because it would show step by step on how to produce a good video game and some of these books include a free or trial program like BlitzBasic or Blitz3d which would allow you to create some simple 2D or 3D video games



http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_n鈥?/a>





Good luck and I hope this helps!What are some useful and good game design books for beginners?Try these videos. They're perfect for teaching beginners C++ and starting into game programming.



http://xoax.net/comp/cpp/