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.
Start your game development journey with Godot, a powerful, flexible, and beginner-friendly game engine used by indie developers and pros alike. In this hands-on course, you'll explore everything you need to know to build your own games from scratch — whether you’re creating a retro-inspired 2D platformer or an immersive 3D adventure.
- This course is ideal for older teens or experienced coders. Whether you have taken other coding classes before or are comfortable with 3D modeling, animation, and more complex game mechanics, and are willing to invest more time and effort into improving for game design skills then this course is for you!
- Leave with a portfolio-ready game and real-world development skills!
How to navigate the Godot editor like a pro to make a game from scratch
Use essential tools for designing game worlds
Understand Godot’s unique Node and Scene system
Work with 2D and 3D assets
Script gameplay behaviors with GDScript, Godot’s built-in coding language
Create a basic interactive game from start to finish
Develop foundations for genres like RPGs, platformers, and survival games
What is GDScript?
GDScript evolved as a custom scripting language to be used with the Godot computer (and mobile device) Game engine, and for those people who look beyond the real world, it also supports Virtual Reality.
GDScript is easy to learn with a syntax similar to Python where the code is indented rather than using lots of brackets and semicolons.
Great for anyone who loves classic game styles! You'll design and build your own 2D game while learning:
How to make either a platformer like old Super Mario or a Top-Down puzzle game
Learn how to design levels using tilemaps
Sprites, collisions, animations, and level design
Player controls, scoring systems, and menus
Game logic and interaction using GDScript
Perfect for teens with some coding or game dev experience, or those ready for a challenge. You'll explore:
How to make either a 3D platformer like Mario 64 or an FPS game
Learn how to use 3D physics
Player movement, camera systems, and physics
Working with 3D assets and animations
Scripting complex interactions and mechanics
Ages | 13+ |
Course Level | Intermediate - Advanced |
Course Language | English & French & German |
Special Full Day Option for Teens | Full day option only. Afternoons include a special program for teens with extended robotics and coding lessons plus eSport competitions, VR gaming, and outdoor activities. |
Notes: | Taught by an experienced game designer with a Master's Degree in Game Development! |
Date | 2025-07-14 – 2025-07-18 |
Start time | 09:00 |
Weekday | Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri |
Location | BASEL | TechLabs ELYS Elässerstrasse 215 4056 Basel Stadt |
Price | 9-17:00 | Full Day CHF 899.00 |
[email protected] | |
Available places | 12 |
No. | From date |
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1 | 2025-07-14 09:00 |
2 | 2025-07-15 09:00 |
3 | 2025-07-16 09:00 |
4 | 2025-07-17 09:00 |
5 | 2025-07-18 09:00 |