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

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

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

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.

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

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

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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 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.

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.

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 20 2025 Portfolio & Testing

 January 13 - 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) January 14th
https://signin.youscience.com/
Code: 9SPF7X4H9

Week 19 2025 Game Career Project

January 6 - 10, 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 19 2025 Spaceship Game

January 6-10, 2025

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

Spaceship 2 by multimedialab2003 on Sketchfab