Game Design & Coding

I'm going to use this as a holding spot for software that might be useful for teachers interested in game design or coding.

Game Design:
Gamestar Mechanic (for Teachers)
ARIS Editor (ARIS Community on Google)  (ARIS Manual) (ARIS Game Jam Oct 23 / 24)
Game Salad (Game Salad Tutorial)
GameMaker Studio

 Sample Game Design Rubric
Game Design Tack at Elementary Tech Fair

Game Based Learning
What Game Based Learning Can Do For Student Achievement
The Minecraft Cell:  Biology Meets Game Based Learning


Coding
Code Academy
Code.org
Scratch
Tynker 

Hour of Code
Teaching Code without a computer
Unplugged Hour of Code
Unplugged Code: Computational Thinking Without a Computer  

Reports
From the Computer Science Teacher's Association