Game Design

Make games rather than play them using your own ideas! Become game developers for a day using a physical and virtual platform for creating video games in the classroom. When students build games, they become the writers, artists, designers, and developers of their own interactive stories.

It all starts with an idea. We provide resources that encourage collaboration while guiding students through a design thinking process. Students create their own 13-bit layouts, characters, and art for their game.

• turn your physical creations into digital game elements
• edit and customize everything from characters to settings
• develop interactions and behaviour between characters
• tell rich, dynamic narratives through your games
• publish them so others can play them too

• Design Thinking – Think of an idea and turn it into a game

• Create – customise everything from characters to settings

• Game Development – Tell rich, dynamic narratives through your games

• Play – Publish them so others can play them too

• Develop -Interactions and behaviour between characters

Participants are provided with all the equipment they will need for this particular course. However, they are expected to bring:

• Lunch – All students are expected to bring packed lunch for the day (nut-free and not to be shared)

• Water – In a re-fillable water bottle. No glass or fizzy drinks please.
Ready to Learn – we expect all children to come in with a great learning attitude