Additional Resources

Practical Support for Game Design and Game Art

• GDC Vault
  Video and audio presentations from Game Developers Conferences.
• LinkedIn Learning
  Provides over 6000 bite-sized video tutorials covering the latest software, creative, and business skills.  Includes ZBrush, Maya and interviews with industry professionals.

E-Newspapers

• Nexis contains both full text and abstract records of news and business intelligence drawn from over 29,000 sources including local, regional and national newspapers, newsletters, magazines and trade journals. Nexis gives the text of articles only - it does not include photographs or formatting.

Television, Radio and Video Resources

• Alexander Street Video
  Videos, films, documentaries and training materials in games and design related areas
• Box of Broadcasts
  Enables students to choose and record any broadcast programme from 60+ TV and radio channels. Date coverage begins in 2009.
• Kanopy
  Includes documentaries on gaming, plus hundreds of independent films and animation.

Business Resources

The Library subscribes to a range of other electronic resources, which are relevant if you wish to research the current market in Game Design.

Market Research

• IBIS World - UK and Global industry reports and risk ratings.
• Mintel - the leading market research database
• Passport GMID - global market information database and analysis tool containing comprehensive data and reports across all industries, countries and consumers.

Company research

• Financial Analysis Made Easy (FAME) – detailed financial and ownership information for 2.5 million UK companies

Visual resources

• TinEye Labs Multicolr search - searches the 20 million images in Flickr by colour
• WGSN Fashion and Lifestyle & Interiors - trend forecasting service and a rich source of images.