What's Game Design?
Rather than lecture or force you to read about what game design is all about, nothing beats playing a game to teach you about it! If you find it difficult to play this right now (due to flash/browser issues, time contraints, work firewalls, etc) then feel free to skip it for now and come back to it later Nothing in this system is a "prerequisite"!
Mission - Play GameStar Mechanic
Making games
Once you've played a bit of GameStar Mechanic (or preferably beaten it, its not very long!) your next step is to learn an important aspects of the trade, Pretotyping and Prototyping.
Mission - Learn about Pretotyping and Prototyping
Learn some tools
Now that you've tried your hand at working with the flexibility of physical components and imaginary rule systems it's time to put together a kit for you to use whenever you want to test out an idea or remix.Mission - Assemble a Pre/Pro-totyping kit
Mission - Remix an analog game
With a good understanding of how to start testing out your game design ideas you should get familiar with a Prototying tool, the better you know it, the quicker you can test your ideas!
Mission - Try out a Prototyping tool
