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



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 pl...