Video Game Design

COURSE OVERVIEW
This course is for anyone who loves gaming and wants to design and build games from scratch.  Students learn how to use popular game development software to create engaging, interactive games in a variety of styles.  After learning about game genres, students learn about all aspects of the game design process including programming, music, animation, characters, and sequence.  From there, it’s on to a series of increasingly challenging hands-on projects that teach all the elements of successful game development. Students will be introduced to and see in action programming concepts such as: variables, functions, arrays, loops, conditional statements, etc.   Throughout the class students will be learning (or reinforcing) technical skills like programming, graphic configuration, animation, and testing/debugging.

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