Week 1 - Introduction to Game Design

Learning Objectives 

• Understand what is a game is

• Core concepts of games 

  • mechanics

  • dynamics

  • aesthetics

Lesson 1

• Introduction to course

• Class rules

• Students expectations

• View the presentation with your teacher What is a game? presentation can be found here

Lesson 2

• Complete the worksheet here

• Create a presentation of your favourite games to play. Each game should have information on what the game is called, what genre it belongs to and what console it can be played on. Please limit to 5 games.

Week 2 - The Computer System

Learning Objectives 

• List hardware in computer systems

• List software in computer systems

• Understand that hardware and software must work together.

• List different devices used to play games on

Lesson 1

• Listen to your teacher introduce the topic

• Complete the worksheet here  you only need to complete hardware section this lesson.

Lesson 2

• Listen to your teacher introduce the topic

• Complete the worksheet from last lesson.

Week 3 - The game mechanics.

Learning Objectives 

• Identify and analyse core game mechanics.​

• ​Understand the relationship between mechanics and player experience.​

• ​Explore the concept of game feel and how it is achieved.

Lesson 1

• View the presentation  with your teacher here

• Complete the worksheet here

Lesson 2

• Continue the presentation from last lesson

• Complete the second worksheet here

Week 4 - 6 - Gamecode in Minecraft

Learning Objectives 

• Understand how Minecraft can code

• ​Understand that coding is important in game development​

• Follow on screen tutorial environment successfully

Lesson 1

• View the presentation  with your teacher here

• Complete the worksheet here

Lesson 2 + 3 + 4

• Continue the activities from the previous class.

Week 7 - Design a game

Learning Objectives 

• How to go about designing a game

• What is involved?

• Where to start?

Lesson 

• View the presentation  with your teacher  here

• Complete the worksheet here

Week 8 - Design a game practice

Learning Objectives 

• What platform to use

• Where can I find help

• What do I need to produce

Lesson 

• Watch a game designer at work here

• Game Design notes here

• Preferred platform for game design is GDevelop, their tutorials are very easy to follow here.

• Godot has tutorials and requires a download here

• Roblox game design here

• Gamestar Mechanic here

• Gamemaker here

• Game salad here

• Unity website can be found here Unity is already on the computers

Rubic and evaluation

Power Point presentation  here

Rubic  here

Self evaluation here

Week 17 - Sound and character

• Understand the role of sound in games​

• Explore different sources of sound effects​

• Learn how to import and edit sounds in Scratch​

• Add appropriate sound effects to a Scratch game

• Understand the purpose and elements of game character design

Power point on sound here

Power point on character design here

worksheet for character here