Wednesday, September 10, 2025

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.


Tuesday, September 2, 2025

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



Thursday, August 28, 2025

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.








Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Week 2 2025 Board Game Pieces

August 25-29, 2025 


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.












Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Week 1b 2025 Board Game

August 18 - 22, 2025

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.



Sunday, August 17, 2025

Week 1 2025 Game Name

August 18 - 22, 2025

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 1 2025 About Me

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Objective: Create a Google Doc
Assignment: About Me
Details: Open a new document. take a picture of yourself. Write two sentences about yourself. List two goals you have for this class. List clubs, sports your are in.
Example

 

 


Friday, May 16, 2025

Week 37 2025 Spaceship Game

May 19-23, 2025


Objective: Model objects.
Assignment: Spaceship Game
Details: Create a spaceship

Monday, May 12, 2025

Week 36 2025 Game Career Project

May 12 - 16, 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:





Thursday, May 8, 2025

Week 35b 2025 PlayCanvas Robot Movement

May 5 - 9, 2025

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 PlayCanvasCreate a new document.

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

3. 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/



Movement:
PlayCanvas: How to create movement. Video Tutorial



My First Project: 





Friday, May 2, 2025

Week 35 2025 PlayCanvas Basics

May 5 - 9, 2025


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




My First Project: 




Monday, April 21, 2025

Week 33 2025 Animation

 April 21 - 25, 2025


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.
 


Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Week 31 2025 Fighting Arena

April 1 - 4, 2025

Week 32 2025 Fighting Arena
Objective: Learn to model objects.
Assignment: Fighting Arena 50 pts
Details: Create a fighting arena for your robots. Add color, adjust lighting.
Save As04_Robot.blend






Monday, March 17, 2025

Week 29 2025 005d Coding [Platform Game]

 March 17 - 21, 2025





Objective: Coding Game 

Assignment: 005d Coding [Platform Game]

Details: Import graphics into Scratch. Block code to create movement. Include animation and at least one sound effect.

Download: 5 Levels Templet

Week 11 2022 005d Coding [Platform Game]

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Week 28 2025 005c Animation [Platform Game]

 March 10 - 14, 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



Monday, March 3, 2025

Week 28 2025 005b Five Levels [Platform Game]

March 3 - 7, 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.

Week 8 2022 005b Five Levels [Platform Game]

Download: 5 Levels Templet

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Week 26 2025 005a Platform Storyboard

Feb. 24 - 28, 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


Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Week 24 2025 Maze Game: Coding

 February 10 - 14, 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.


Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Week 23b 2025 Maze Game: Create

February 3-7, 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

Monday, February 3, 2025

Week 23 2025 Board Game Final

February 3-7, 2025

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


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




Thursday, January 30, 2025

Week 22b 2024 Board Game Pieces

January 27-31, 2025


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.












Friday, January 24, 2025

Week 22 2025 Board Game

January 27 - 31, 2025

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.



Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Week 21 2025 Game Name

January 21 - 24, 2025


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

Objective: Develop a Game Name.
Assignment: Game Name

Links: Adobe Express, Convert Video to Gif: https://ezgif.com/
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 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 ...