On Friday 14th of June, Primary 6 from Abernyte Primary went along to the Dare Launchpad event at Abertay University to learn about the UK computer games industry and have a go at designing and creating their own platform game.
Pupils learned about some of the computer games that are produced in Britain and were given a tour of some of the teams that are developing games for the Dare to be Digital 2013 design challenge. They learned about the inspiration and design process behind the games and what is needed to create a successful game.
After everyone was split into co-operative teams (P6 from Abernyte were joined by two pupils from Arngask), pupils decided if they wanted to be a Designer, Artist or Programmer before brainstorming and coming up with ideas for their own game.
After lunch, the Artists got to work on the graphics for the game using Gimp, the Programmer started building the level and the Programmers began coding the software needed for the individual elements of the game using GameMaker Studio.
This collaborative process eventually resulted in a playable game which will be built to a web platform by Future Fossil Studios and hosted online. As soon as they’re ready, we’ll update this post with a link to the game(s) for you to try out!
Sorry for the lack of update – we were never sent any additional information saying that anything had been uploaded. Yes, the game that our team produced is the one on the bottom right of the screen (purple border). The computer that I am looking at it on only seems to show a picture though and does not have a link to a playable game. I have emailed Future Fossil and will add a new post if I can get access to a playable game. Thank you for spotting this! 🙂
I couldn’t wait and went looking for the future fossil studio page. Found some games from Perth school pupils here http://futurefossilstudios.com/darelaunchpad/14June/index.html
Is one of these games from our team?