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Game Experience
- Week 4: Game Experience
- Student Ages: 9-14 years old
- Activity Time: 60 minutes
- Activity Level: Beginner Coder
Prerequisites
- Download and Installation of Kodu
- Getting Started with Kodu
- Rapid Prototyping
- Game Mechanics
Learning Objectives
- Students will learn various game genres as well game genre advantages and challenges.
Contents
- Game Experience
- Complete Game: Roadkill Excitement galore as you try to weave your way through the hurried commuter traffic! Can you reach the safety of the far side?
Student Activities
Theme and Story
Students will learn popular game genres: Strategy, Action, RPG and Adventure, Construction and management.
Subjects: Design Technology, Digital Literacy, 21st Century Learning Skills
Building atmosphere in your Kodu games
Students will learn the concept of building atmosphere in a game that might including changing the character size, dramatic music and dark lighting, delayed gratification, color use, and POV (point of view).
Subjects: Design Technology, Digital Literacy, 21st Century Learning Skills
The Game Space
Students will learn the concepts of open spaces, obstacles, special spaces, the camera, and levels.
Subjects: Design Technology, Digital Literacy, 21st Century Learning Skills
Characters
Students will learn that different bots have different abilities.
Subjects: Design Technology, Digital Literacy, 21st Century Learning Skills
Performance Expectations
Week 4: Task
Students will create a game that a Bot that you haven’t yet used before in a Kodu Game Lab game.
Subjects: Design Technology, Digital Literacy, 21st Century Learning Skills
Skills
Character, Citizenship, Collaboration, Communication, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Project Based Learning