Students will work with game design learning coaches to design a core game idea, including story, mechanics and other game elements.
Using various art tools, students will create game art for character sprites, backgrounds and gaming interfaces.
Students will learn the basics of programming/coding using GameMaker, working with coaches to code and test their own video games.
Students will playtest each others' game mechanics, learning problem-solving skills as they encounter and fix bugs and glitches in the software.