Week 21b 2026 Board Game

January 20 - 23, 2026 

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 2026 Game Name

January 20 - 23, 2026 

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 2026 Portfolio & Testing

 January 12 - 15, 2026 

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: 4XYAHNIRL

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.