Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Week 7 2023 005a Platform Storyboard

Oct. 2 - 6, 2023

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


Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Week 5 2023 Maze Game: Coding

 Sept. 18 - 22, 2023


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.

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Week 4 2023 Maze Game: Strategy

Sept. 11-15, 2023

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:


Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Week 3 2023 Board Game: Pieces & Rules

 Sept. 5-8, 2023


Assignment: Pieces
Details: Design two or more pieces to use on your board game.



Assignment: Instruction & Game Name
Details: Explain how to play your game with a set of rules. Example: taking turns, rolling a dice, using playing cards or others ways to move.



Week 2 2023 Pieces

August 28 - September 1, 2023


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 34 2024 Animation

 April 22 - 26, 2024 Objective:  Animate objects. Assignment:  Animation [1v1] 50 pts Details:  Animate your game to show how it is played. ...