ZH | Video Game Design Camp - Retro Arcade | Age 9+ | Oct 14-18

video game design labCreate 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.

Develop your coding skills as you create video games and bring them to life on a handheld gaming device!

This program is perfect for those looking to build or enhance their programming skills. Through creating custom retro-style video games, students learn computer programming and game design, with the added thrill of seeing their games come to life on a handheld console.

The course is packed with problem-solving challenges and provides a sense of accomplishment when the game is complete. Testing and refining their games, fixing bugs, and eventually publishing them is both fun and rewarding.

Students will learn:

✮ Intro to Computer Science with Microsoft MakeCode Arcade
✮ Game design basics & physics
✮ Troubleshooting and logical problem-solving
✮ Coding with MakeCode (visual block-based) or Javascript to create retro video games

  

  Ages 9+
 Course Level Beginner -Intermediate
 Course Language English & German
Date 2024-10-14 – 2024-10-18
Start time 09:00
Weekday Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Location ZÜRICH | TechLabs
Hohlstrasse 201
8004 Zürich
Price 9-12:30 | Half Day
CHF 525.00
*Custom schedule: Select this option if you require a customized week schedule. The price will be adjusted via custom invoice.
CHF 650.00
E-mail info@techlabs.ch
Available places 8

ZH | Video Game Design Camp - Retro Arcade | Age 9+ | Oct 14-18

No. From date
1 2024-10-14 09:00
2 2024-10-15 09:00
3 2024-10-16 09:00
4 2024-10-17 09:00
5 2024-10-18 09:00