Teach students with no prior coding experience how to conceptualize, design, and make their very own game with this course.
This 30hr course is a great course for students with no prior coding experience to learn how to conceptualize, design, and make their very own games. This condensed game development course gets students learning by doing. Students learn the theory of game development as well as introductory computer science concepts by building interactive games that allow them to express their creativity.
Grade Band: Grades 6-8
Format: Year-long (30 hrs)
Prerequisites: None
Video-Based Lessons
Self-Grading Quizzes
Project Portfolio
JavaScript
UI Design
Pixel Art
Narrative Storytelling
Students create video game assets using pixel art software. Then they learn the fundamentals of JavaScript and how to utilize object-oriented programming to build a text adventure game.
Students utilize game mechanics to build player-oriented gameplay and leverage new data types, logical operators, conditionals, loops, and other coding concepts to build a word-guessing game.
Hands-On Learning
Through a combination of follow-along projects and self-directed activities, students build a unique coding project portfolio demonstrating the skills and knowledge they acquire.
In this project, students build out a word-guessing game where a random word is chosen and the player is given the opportunity to guess letters.
A browser-based text adventure game to learn how to build and incorporate a unique game narrative using JavaScript.
RAM: 4GB or more
CPU: Pentium 5 or later
Chromebook: Chrome OS 100.0 or later
Windows: 7, 8, 8.1, 10 or later
Mac: OS X El Capitan 10.11 or later
Linux: 64-bit Ubuntu 18.04+, Debian 10+, openSUSE 15.2+, or Fedora Linux 32+
Google Chrome
13" or bigger display
Full keyboard
Three-button mouse with scroll wheel
Headphone jack and headphones
Schedule a demo today with one of our education specialists to find out how Mastery Coding can help you meet students where they are.