GAME DESIGN CLASS for TEENS & PRE-TEENS
Every Friday 1pm-2:30pm PST
March 14-May 30 (12 weeks)
Learn to create digital game art, card games, and board games, with professional graphic designer, game designer, and animator Shaun D. McMillan.
Together students will
- develop their own originally designed games
- play test with friends
- learn the fundamentals of graphic design and illustration
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$250 ($14 per hour)
FIRST FIVE Students to sign up get 1st Month FREE!
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Requirements
Class will be online and will require a desktop computer/laptop.
We will use a software called Table Top Simulator available through Steam. The program costs a one time fee of $20.
Chromebooks CANNOT install this software and will not work for this class!
Curriculum
Week 2 – Minimalist & Serious Games (Simulations)
Introduce new game: Loneliness
Homework: Play Parable of the Polygon
Week 3 – Recreational Mathematics & Programming
Introduce new game: James Conway’s Game of Life
Homework:
Week 1 – Introduction to Mechanics & Paper Prototyping
Introduce new game: Loneliness
Homework: Modify the game of War to be a better game
Week 4 – Virtual Play Testing
Introduce new game: Table Top Simulator or Tabletopia
Homework: Create Digital card and upload to Tabletopia
Week 5 – Fundamentals of Design
Introduce new game: Thomas was Alone
Homework: Watch Game Maker’s Toolkit YouTube video
Week 6 – Social Deduction Games
Introduce new game: One-Night Ultimate Werewolf
homework: Play Avalon
Week 7 – Bluffing
Introduce new game: Coup
homework: Modify Coup
Week 8 – Table Top RPG
Introduce new game: Fate RPG
homework: Read rule book on how to play ALLIANCE Trade Wars
Week 9 – Deck Builders
Introduce new game: ALLIANCE Trade Wars
homework: Read rule book on how to play ALLIANCE Megagame
Week 10 – Semi Co-Op Economic Games
Introduce new game: Pandemic
homework: Read the rule book for ALLIANCE
Week 11 – Political Science Simulations
Introduce new game: ALLIANCE Megagame
Homework: Play ALLIANCE
Week 12 – Game Theory & Recreational Math
Introduce new game: Prisoner’s Dilemma
Watch Vi Hart’s 3-part series on the Golden Spiral, Phi, Fibonacci Sequence
