Guides: IMGD Interactive Media and Game Development: Home

Welcome!

Hello and Welcome to the Gordon Library Interactive Media & Game Development Guide!

This guide is designed to help you with your research for IMGD classes and projects. Use the tabs on the top to navigate, or peek through this table of contents. This guide contains information on research databases, journals, magazines, blogs, assets, books & ebooks.

Menu – Home (this page)

The landing page where you choose your own adventure, or peel off to another guide. Check out the list below this box to find other guides on Computer Science, 3D modeling, Music, and more!

Tutorial – Finding Academic Resources

All your academic necessities like (e-)books, journals, and databases, plus tips on how to assess your sources for quality and usefulness. Also: necessary IRB information for IMGD or CS undergrads. Press start!

Level Up! – Finding Multimedia Assets

Non-academic resources that are just as important to IMGD students, like free online repositories for placeholder assets, and archives of digitally preserved copies of older games. These resources are not subscribed to or maintained by the library; this list is compiled and maintained primarily by IMGD faculty. Press start!

Roll Credits – Citation and Attribution

How to cite your sources and how to give appropriate attribution to assets when publishing an academic study, presenting at a conference, or a publishing your game. Press start!

Showcase – The Library Collection

A gallery of favorite books, journals, and other digital resources co-curated by the IMGD faculty and the librarian. Also galleries of books and articles written by faculty! Press start!