Week 18 2025 Spaceship Game

December 15-19, 2025 

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

Spaceship 2 by multimedialab2003 on Sketchfab

Week 17 2025 PlayCanvas Robot Movement

December 8 - 12, 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 PlayCanvas: Create 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/

Link: https://playcanvas.com/

Movement:

PlayCanvas: How to create movement. Video Tutorial

My First Project: 

Week 15 2025 PlayCanvas Basics

November 24 - 25, 2025 

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 13 2025 Animation

 November 10 - 14, 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.

 

Week 11 2025 Fighting Arena

Oct. 28 - 31, 2025 

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 10 2025 005d Coding [Platform Game]

 October 20 - 23, 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 2023 005d Coding [Platform Game]

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.

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.

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.

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

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

 

 

Week 37 2025 Spaceship Game

May 19-23, 2025

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

Spaceship 2 by multimedialab2003 on Sketchfab

Week 36b 2025 Portfolio & Testing

 May 12 - 16, 2025

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: 5U6E4G1XL

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:

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

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 PlayCanvas: Create 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/

Link: https://playcanvas.com/

Movement:

PlayCanvas: How to create movement. Video Tutorial

My First Project: 

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.

Link: https://playcanvas.com/

Video Tutorial: PlayCanvas Tutorial #01 - Introduction to PlayCanvas

My First Project: 

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.

 

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 As: 04_Robot.blend

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]

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