Week 2 2026 Board Game Pieces

August 24-28, 2026 


Assignment: Board Game Pieces.

Illustrator is a Vector based tool used to create logos, clip art, t-shirt designs, and many other graphics. Learned how to use the Selection Tool, Moving objects, creating rectangles, ellipses, changing color of the fill and stroke, Duplicating, rotating. Went over the Zoom tool, Align, and Pathfinder.

Week 1b 2026 Board Game

August 17 - 21, 2026

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

Objective: Design a board game layout.
Assignment: Board Game: Strategy
Details: Create a board game. Use Illustrator to create shapes to layout the board. Include a background color, text that would fits your idea for your board game. Include instructions on how to play the game. 

Size: 12 x 12 inches.
Save As:  01_BoardGame_XX.ai
Export As:  01_BoardGame_XX.jpg

Example: First draft or your board game.

Week 1 2026 Game Name

August 17 - 21, 2026

002 GDF1 - Game Development Fundamentals 1:  Assignment: Game Name

Objective: Develop a Game Name.
Assignment: Game Name

Links:https://www.adobe.com/express/
Details: Create a title page for a video game you would like to create. Use Adobe Illustrator to create this graphic. Include a background color, text and character or characters from other games that would fit your idea for a game. 

Size: 1920 x 1080 pixels. Resolution: 72dpi
Save As:  04_GameName_XX.ai
Export As:  04_GameName_XX.jpg

Week 37 2026 Portfolio & Testing

 May 18 - 22, 2026 

Portfolio Example: https://freemangraphics.weebly.com/game-design.html

1-Submit Portfolio (100pts)
https://goo.gl/forms/ler1PEhnRR6D9Qgn2

 2-Test Review (50pts)
GDF1 Starters (Links to an external site.)Standards: Game Development Fundamentals 1

3-State Test (100pts) May 16th
https://signin.youscience.com/
Code: PZ6S142IN

Week 35b 2026 PlayCanvas Robot Movement

May 11 - 15, 2026 

Objective: Exploring 3D Game Engine.
Assignment: PlayCanvas Robot Movement

Details: Export one robot as a .glb file. Import  into Play Canvas.

Importing Blender Robot into  PlayCanvas:

1. Open Blender file and save as to create a duplicate.

2. Delete everything except your robot.

Press A / Hold down shift to deselect your robot / press X

Move robot to 0 access

File / Export / glTF 2.0 (.glb/.gltf)

Open PlayCanvas: Create a new document.

3. Drag and drop your .glb file to the assets (robot2.glb)

4. Right mouse click on Root /Templet / +Add Instance. Chose your robot below in the assets.

Resources:

Importing your first model and animation - PlayCanvas Tutorials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0LYQw7laRA&t=92s
https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/

Link: https://playcanvas.com/

Movement:

PlayCanvas: How to create movement. Video Tutorial

My First Project: 

Week 35 2026 PlayCanvas Basics

May 4 - 8, 2026

Objective: Exploring 3D Game Engine.
Assignment: PlayCanvas Basics
Details: Create an account in Play Canvas. Use your personal email, not csddocs email.

Link: https://playcanvas.com/

Video Tutorial: PlayCanvas Tutorial #01 - Introduction to PlayCanvas

My First Project: 

Week 33 2026 Animation

 April 20 - 24, 2026 

Objective: Animate objects.
Assignment: Animation [1v1] 50 pts
Details: Animate your game to show how it is played. 

Video Tutorial: Animating Objects. Render Animation.

Objective: Create 3D Text
Assignment: Game Title [1v1] 50 pts
Details: Create a name and a title for your game and export it as a still image.

Link: https://www.dafont.com/
Video Tutorial: Create 3D Text.