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Florida Digital Discoveries in Society

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Intro to Game Design
Description

In this lesson, students begin to reflect on the variety of games they have played and what actually makes a game a game.

Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Identify the variety of games they have played
  • Identify what aspects they like in games
  • Begin to explain what makes a game a game
Description

In this lesson, students explore and learn to identify game elements, mechanics, and components that make up the overall gameplay experience.

Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Identify game components
  • Identify game mechanics and how they impact player interactions
  • Identify game elements and how they define a game
Description

In this lesson, students explore game genres and perspectives that are used to categorize different types of video games.

Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Identify different perspectives in video games
  • Identify different game genres
  • Categorize games based on perspective and/or game genre
Description

In this lesson students learn about game design documents and how they’re used to design a game and assist with its development process.

Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Describe the purpose of a game design document
  • Define the parts or sections of a game design document
  • Reverse engineer a game and create a basic game design document
Description

In this lesson, students learn about the storyboarding technique and what it’s like to be a storyboard artist at a game studio.

Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Explain what a storyboard is and how it’s used.
  • Create their own storyboard for an aspect of a video game.
  • Understand more about the storyboard artist role.
  • Create a storyboard for their final game project.