Video Game Design Intro

Video Game Design

Spring 2021

Week 1

• Learn about why games are important and how gaming skills translate to the “real world”

• Learn about what goes into making a GOOD game

• Learn about color & design techniques

Open Ended

What is your favorite video game? Why?

EdPuzzle

Watch Jane McGonigal’s “Games Can Make A Better World”

Week 2

• Learn about the engineering cycle used by game development teams to problem solve

• Learn how to use Scratch

• Learn about different programming languages and techniques.

Week 3

• Learn how & why game development teams are formed 

• Form game development teams

• Design an original game

• Create a marketing plan for your game

• Present your game and plan to the class

Poll

How would you like to choose teams for our Week 3 project? Groups will contain at least 3 students.

• Mr. McArthur chooses

• Computer chooses

• Students chooses

Week 4

• Build off of our knowledge of “What makes a good game” and use Game Maker to design and program actual working games

• Learn how important engineering, science, and math skills are in game development 

• Put all of our learned game design skills into an original project