Coltness HS – Computer Games Development
BGE & NPA
Well Code Year is underway and there is still time to learn. It’s part of the Code Academy program that aims to get more people creating websites and games.
Sign up and each week you will be sent an email, it takes about an hour to complete the tasks. No previous experience is required and the tutorials are interactive, so no boring sitting about watching videos.
This is a fantastic game development environment is free on Windows PCs. We started to create a game and within minutes we had a working version.
Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills.
There is a lot of information about Kodu online and youtube has lots of Kodu videos and tutorials. One of the best ways to learn it though is to download a project and just jump into the editor and have a play about. There are built in tutorials and I found these to be very helpful in learning Kodu, however, if you want to watch some videos you can do that here.
Here are some helpful links.
I have just been told about Play My Code. What a great little site.
You learn to program in Quby which is a Ruby like language, this is fairly easy to learn, although it is text based rather than Scratch’s more intuitive graphical interface. You can view the code of the games on the site and this allows you to learn from people who have developed games.
The site would benefit from some tutorials but the chances are that these can be found in youtube (I can’t check this from work though)
I love “Physics” games, where you have to set up a sequence of events to do a task. I found a little cracker over the holidays, Vampire Physics, you have to convert all the humans to vampires while at the same time making sure that they don’t get killed by all the normal things.
What make the game great is the built in level editor, where you can create your own levels for other users to play. Great fun and it keeps the game fresher for longer.
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