Week 9 2025 Game Career Project

October 13 - 17, 2025 

Objective: Identify Game Careers
Assignment: Game Career Project
Details: Create a Google Slide. Chose gaming career and brainstorm idea's and create your own project. Document what you learn about the career you have chosen and show graphics of what your are creating. 

Primary Gaming Industry's job titles: 

Lead Programmer, Lead Designer, General Game Designer, Mechanics Designer, Level Designer/World Builder, User Interface (UI) Designer, Animator, Writer, Audio Director, Art Director, Project Manager, etc.

Example:

Submit Google Slide: https://forms.gle/pFwuFwCA5hskkoGU8

Week 8 2025 005c Animation [Platform Game]

 Oct. 6 - 10, 2025

Objective: Use sprites to create

Assignment: Animation: [Platform Game]
Details: Download the template. Create 5 levels and 4 objects using Illustrator. Create multiple Sprites to create animation. 
Download: 5 Levels Templet

Week 7 2025 005b Five Levels [Platform Game]

September 30 - October 3, 2025

005b GDF1 - Game Development Fundamentals 1:  Assignment: Five Levels [Platform Game]
Download: 5 Levels Templet

Objective: Creating 5 Interactive Levels.
Assignment: Five Levels [Platform Game]Details: Download the templet. Create 5 levels and 4 objects using Illustrator.

005b Five Levels [Platform Game]

Download: 5 Levels Templet

Week 5 2025 005a Platform Storyboard

Sept. 15 - 19, 2025 

005a GDF1 - Game Development Fundamentals 1:  Assignment: Platform Game: Story
Download: Storyboard

Objective: Storyboard Game intro.

Assignment: Platform Game: Story.

Details: Create a story for your game explaining the why the game is being played. This could be a quest for treasure or a rescue mission or something else.

Download: Storyboard

Week 4 2025 Maze Game: Coding

 September 8 - 12, 2025 

Assignment: Maze Game: Coding Details: Export Graphics from Illustrator. Create a scratch account. Do not your csd email, use a personal email.

Exporting Artboards

1. File/Export

2. Click: Use Artboards 

3. Chose Resolution: Medium (72 ppi), Background color: Transparent.

How do you import graphics into scratch? 

1. Look for the upload icon.

2. Upload .png for transparent images.

Week 3 2025 Maze Game: Create

 September 2-5, 2025 

Objective: Design a maze game layout. Assignment: Maze Game: Graphics & Coding Details: Create a maze game. Use Illustrator to create shapes to layout the board.

Include a background color, text that would fit your idea for your board game.

Include instructions on how to play the game. Download: maze_game_size_480x360.ai.zip 

Save As:  05_MazeGame_XX.ai

Export As:  05_MazeGame_XX.jpg

Example: First draft or your maze game.

STRAND 5: Game Design Production Cycle (54% -29 of 54 pts): Students will be able to create and develop a game, in one of the identified game genres (Action, Adventure, RPG, Simulation or Strategy), using the Game Design Production Cycle.

Standard 2: Pre-Production (Design) --Students will be able to design documents as part of the

Preproduction of the game.

Put together a "Game Design Document" (the overall blueprint) and include the following components:

Title

Week 2b 2025 Board Game: Instructions

August 25 - 29, 2025 

GDF1 - Game Development Fundamentals 1:  Assignment: Board Game: Strategy

Objective: Create Instructions on how to play your game.
Assignment: Board Game: Instructions & Game Name
Details: Create a new art board in Illustrator.  

Size: 12 x 12 inches.
Save As:  05_BoardGame_XX.ai
Export As:  05_BoardGame_XX.jpg

Install Fonts.
1. Download font. (www.dafont.com)
2. Unzip download
3. Locate .ttf or .otf file. ( Double click to install)
4. Font will install through Font Book software.

Example: First draft or your board game.