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. 

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.

 

Week 32 2024 Fighting Arena

April 8 - 12, 2024

Objective: Learn to model objects.
Assignment: Fighting Arena 50 pts
Details: Create a fighting arena for your robots. Add color, adjust lighting.
Save As: 04_Robot.blend

Week 31 2024 005c Animation [Platform Game]

 March 26 - 29, 2023

Objective: Use sprites to create

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

Week 28 2024 005b Five Levels [Platform Game]

March 4 - 8, 2023

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.

Week 8 2022 005b Five Levels [Platform Game]

Download: 5 Levels Templet

Week 7 2023 005b Five Levels [Platform Game]

Week 27 2024 005a Platform Storyboard

Feb. 26 - 29, 2024

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 23b 2024 Maze Game: Create

 January. 29 - February 2, 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:

Title

Week 23 2024 Board Game Final

January 29 - February 2, 2024

003c GDF1 - Game Development Fundamentals 1:  Assignment: Board Game: Final Draft

Objective: Design a board game layout.

Assignment: Board Game: Final Draft

Details: Create a board 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.

Size: 12 x 12 inches. 

Save As:  05_BoardGame_XX.ai

Export As:  05_BoardGame_XX.jpg

Links: Dice Roller

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Example: Final draft or your board 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 22 2024 Board Game Pieces

January 22-26, 2024


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 22 2024 Board Game

January 22 - 26, 2024

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:  05_BoardGame_XX.ai
Export As:  05_BoardGame_XX.jpg

Example: First draft or your board game.

Week 21 2024 Game Name

January 16 - 18, 2024

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

Objective: Develop a Game Name.
Assignment: Game Name
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 20 2024 Portfolio & Testing

 January 8 - 11, 2024

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) January 9th
https://signin.youscience.com/
Code: Z3VQPYFME

Week 19 2024 Game Career Project

January 2 - 5, 2024

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