Create Your Own Video Game!
In our video game design courses, we aim to turn students into digital creators, channeling their passion for gaming into a powerful source of creativity and innovation. Whether it’s coding or level design, your child’s favorite pastime can evolve into a platform for boundless imagination. Our courses offer a range of industry-standard software tools to help them master each stage of game development—from brainstorming and design to coding, testing, and debugging. Along the way, they’ll cultivate essential skills like creativity, teamwork, critical thinking, problem-solving, logic, patience, and persistence.
For returning students, we continuously introduce new lessons and challenges, ensuring their learning experience remains fresh, engaging, and inspiring.
Intro to Video Game Design
In this hands-on course, students will explore the exciting world of programming and game development through a variety of beginner-friendly platforms. From building 2D platformers to creating immersive VR experiences, each student will get a taste of different game design tools and discover what excites them most. Throughout the semester, students will create their own mini-games while developing skills in creativity, coding, and storytelling. Projects change each term to keep things fresh and fun!
Throughout the course, kids will build games that incorporate key elements such as loops, conditionals, events, variables, and debugging. These foundational skills are the building blocks of all coding languages and will empower students to think like real programmers—no matter what platform or language they encounter in the future.
Tools & Highlights:
- Minecraft EDU - Code mini-games, build a Minecraft arcade, and proudly share their creations with friends.
- MakeBlock - Program a games incorporating AI tools like image recognition for controlling sprites
- CoSpaces VR – Dive into virtual reality by building interactive 3D worlds and simulations using block based coding.
- Minecraft (Code Kingdoms) – Learn to code inside the Minecraft universe using drag-and-drop or JavaScript to create custom gameplay.
- Roblox (Code Kingdoms) – Design multiplayer games in Roblox while learning Lua coding in a kid-friendly environment.
- Retro Arcade – Recreate classic arcade-style games and learn core game mechanics and pixel art design.
- Kodu – A visual programming tool perfect for designing 3D games with no prior coding experience. Great for learning game logic and world-building.
| Ages: | 9+ |
| Course Level: | Beginner + Intermediate |
| Course Language: | Germand and English |