Choose your favorite video game, board game, or sport and identify:
- “What do you do in the game?” (mechanics: collecting, shooting, throwing, solving)
- “How do you win the game?” (what is your goal?)
- “What limitations have you given players to make it more challenging?" (What are the rules of the game?)
- “Describe the game space.” (top-down, platformer, tabletop, grid, floor, etc.)
- “What do you use to play the game?” (components: dice, cards, ball, portal gun, crafting table etc.)
Write it down in your 5 elements Google Doc, discuss with your partner, and be prepared to share.
Agenda:
- Complete the quest: Addison Joins the league.
- Post your Clean Slate game to this Discussion on My Big Campus.
- Then, for the rest of the period choose one or more of the following options:
- Complete an open challenge or contest from the workshop.
- Create a new game in your workshop. Post it here.
- Open Kodu (Desktop) and complete some built-in tutorials.
- Open Stencyl (Desktop - Requires sign up) and complete the crash course.
- Open Scratch (Requires sign up) and make a Flappy Bird game.
- Objectives:
- [8] You will design and analyze dynamic systems, a characteristic activity in both the media and in science today, with considerations of how end-users interact with said systems.
- [11] You will develop an understanding of programming & computational concepts.
- [12] You will develop fluency with computational concepts (i.e. sequence, loops, events) and practices (i.e. iterative and incremental development, testing and debugging, reusing and remixing).