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Game Design Course

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Game Experience

Digital Technology Computer Science

Prerequisites

Learning Objectives

  • Students will learn various game genres as well game genre advantages and challenges.

Contents

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