game design 11

game making stage one

This blog is for the year 11 game making class. Here is the course outline:

Skills

• Solve a series of programming and multimedia challenges set by the teacher
• Skills test using Game Maker. Closed book. Develop a game with specified criteria without assistance in supervised setting

Folio

• Investigate and write about the issues of addiction and violence in video games
• Choose and evaluate an existing game from the Game Maker site. Teacher will provide guidelines for the game evaluation

Practical

• Design, build and document your own game using Game Maker software. Teacher will provide guidelines for documentation based on the systems development life cycle