Presented at WBGU's "STEM Video Game Design Challenge and Workshop" at Bowling Green State University in February 2012.

1. Designing Video Games
In
The Classroom

2. GAME DESIGN THEORY

3. SOFTWARE OPTIONS
 GameStar Mechanic
 Web based (works on Mac, PC)
 No Download required.
 Teacher and Student accounts

5. SOFTWARE OPTIONS
 Alice
 Made by Carnegie Mellon
 From alice.org:
“students drag and drop graphic tiles to create a
program, where the instructions correspond to
standard statements in a production oriented
programming language, such as Java, C++, and
C#.”

8. SOFTWARE OPTIONS
 Scratch
 Made by MIT
 Works on Mac + PC

11. SOFTWARE OPTIONS
 Kodu
 Design on a PC or Xbox 360
 3D, pre-made sprites with animations

14. SOFTWARE OPTIONS
 GameMaker
 Free Version, Pro Version, Studio
 Import or Create sprites
 Mac, PC

16. STUDENTS IN STEM VIDEO GAME CONTEST
 Presenting their games today…
 BradleyW.
 Jacob M.
 Adam R.

17. WHY VIDEO GAMES?
 Computer Science Fundamentals
 Natural Interest
 Motivation
 Complete Design Process

18. GET STARTED - GAMEMAKER
 GameMaker software
 www.yoyogames.com/make
 GameMaker Challenges w/ teacher materials
 http://activategames.org/

19. GET STARTED – GAMESTAR MECHANIC
 Web based software
 www.gamestarmechanic.com

20. GET STARTED - KODU
 http://fuse.microsoft.com/page/kodu
 Main download site, tutorials
 http://planetkodu.com/
 Community site,tutorials (Earn badges for
contributing!)

21. GETTING STARTED - ALICE
 www.alice.org/
 Description from the site, “Alice is an innovative
3D programming environment that makes it easy
to create an animation for telling a story, playing
an interactive game, or a video to share on the
web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory
computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-
drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less
frustrating first programming experience. “

22. GETTING STARTED - SCRATCH
 http://scratch.mit.edu/
 Description from the site, “Scratch is a
programming language that makes it easy to
create your own interactive stories, animations,
games, music, and art -- and share your
creations on the web. As young people create
and share Scratch projects, they learn important
mathematical and computational ideas, while
also learning to think creatively, reason
systematically, and work collaboratively.”