Class meetings are on Monday, unless otherwise noted.
Contents
- 1 Week 1 ~ 9/8/2025
- 2 Week 2 ~ 9/15/2025
- 3 Week 3 ~ 9/29/2025
- 4 Week 4 ~ 10/6/2025
- 5 Week 5 ~ 10/14/2025 (Tuesday)
- 6 Week 6 ~ 10/24/2025 (Friday)
- 7 Week 7 ~ 10/27/2025
- 8 Week 8 ~ 11/3/2025
- 9 Week 9 ~ 11/10/2025
- 10 Week 10 ~ 11/17/2025
- 11 Week 11 ~ 11/24/2025
- 12 Week 12 ~ 12/1/2025
- 13 Week 13 ~ 12/8/2025
- 14 Week 14 ~ 12/15/2025
- 15 Week 15 ~ 12/22/2025
Week 1 ~ 9/8/2025
- Lecture: Introduction to Game Design
- Lab: Open Lab Intro, video
- Lecture: Interactive design patterns
- Lab: Twine Intro, video
- Blog assignment 1: Post a screen shot of your Twine project progress
Week 2 ~ 9/15/2025
- Lecture: Genre
- Lab: Adding images in Twine
- Lab: Saving state with Twine variables
- Blog assignment 2: Post a description of your Twine game concept with screen shots of the editor and preview
Week 3 ~ 9/29/2025
- Lecture: Indie games
- Lab: Publishing on Itch.io
- Play test: Twine games
- Project 1: Twine
- Publish your Twine game on Itch.io
- Write a blog post with a link to the game, one screen shot and a short summary
- Write a summary of the play testing feedback and changes you made based on the feedback
Week 4 ~ 10/6/2025
- Lecture: Setting
- Lab: Bitsy, intro video
- Lab: Bitsy dialog
- Blog assignment 3: Post a description of your concept for you Bitsy game and screen shots of your progress
Week 5 ~ 10/14/2025 (Tuesday)
- Lecture: Level design, Level design principles
- Lab: Locked exit, sound
- Blog assignment 4: Add at least 5 rooms in your Bitsy game, post screen shots
Week 6 ~ 10/24/2025 (Friday)
- Lecture: Browser games
- Lab: Publish Bitsy game
- Play test: Bitsy games
- Project 2: Bitsy
- Publish Bitsy game on Itch.io
- Post a link, screen shot and description on Open Lab
- Write a summary of the user feedback from play testing
Week 7 ~ 10/27/2025
- Lecture: Character design
- Lab: GameMaker intro, download GameMaker, create an account
- Demo: GameMaker player script
- GameMaker manual
- Blog assignment 5: Post screen shots of your character in a GameMaker scene, write about the character concept
Week 8 ~ 11/3/2025
- Lecture: Level design techniques
- Lab: GameMaker level design, importing assets
- Blog assignment 6: Post a video of your GameMaker level, description of the concept
Week 9 ~ 11/10/2025
- Lab: Game manager, UI
- Lab: Moving enemy
- Blog assignment 7: GameMaker progress, video documentation
Week 10 ~ 11/17/2025
- Play test: GameMaker
- Demo: GameMaker build
- Project 3: Publish GameMaker game
- Publish on Itch.io
- Create an Open Lab post with documentation including a description of the game, video of the gameplay and a link to the game
- Include a summary of user feedback and changes made based on user feedback
Week 11 ~ 11/24/2025
- Lab: Godot Intro, Download Godot, Godot Template
- Lab: Godot game template and components
- Blog assignment 8: Post a screen shot of first Godot scene
Week 12 ~ 12/1/2025
- Lecture: Emergence and Progression
- Lab: Importing models, scripts for respawn, exit and reset, portal and adding level
- Blog assignment 9: Post a video of Godot gameplay
Week 13 ~ 12/8/2025
- Lecture: Sound design
- Lab: Sound
- Lab: Godot collectibles, item and key
- Blog assignment 10: Post a video of Godot gameplay
Week 14 ~ 12/15/2025
- Lab: Godot UI, Godot export
- Project 4: Publish Godot game on Itch.io, post video and screen shots on the class blog
Week 15 ~ 12/22/2025
- Play test: Godot games
- Project workshop / deadline
