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.
Camp Theme:
Advanced Minecraft Creation Camp: Laser Tag!
This camp teaches students how to turn vanilla Minecraft Java Edition into a powerful game-creation platform. Campers go beyond playing and learn how Minecraft really works by designing custom maps and building original mini-games using advanced commands.
Participants explore how resource packs and data packs can change gameplay, visuals, and rules—without using mods. Students learn to customize both client-side and server-side behavior, create command-based systems, and bring their own game ideas to life. By the end of camp, students will be able to take their worlds, data packs, and resource packs home and run them on their own systems, so they can continue expanding their creations after camp ends.
Along the way, campers build skills in logic, systems design, and problem-solving, all inside Minecraft. This camp is ideal for kids who love Minecraft and are ready to level up from playing to creating and engineering their own experiences.
What You’ll Learn
- Customize Textures and Model Design: Create custom game elements using Blockbench and Visual Studio Code.
- Data Packs & Game Functionality: Learn how to use data packs to add logic and behavior to your creations, including custom items, abilities, events, and scoring systems through Minecraft’s command language.
- Mini-Game Design: Laser Tag: Design and build a complete laser tag experience, including:
- Custom laser blasters
- Custom laser projectiles
- A scoring and hit-detection system
- A fully built arena
- Systems Thinking & Problem Solving: Learn how commands, functions, and game systems work together to create polished, replayable Minecraft experiences.
| Ages | 12-16 |
| Course Level | Beginner - Intermediate, Minecraft Experience required |
| Course Language | English (Teacher support in German however much of the software used is English based) |