Gold GameStar: Game Design
Getting Started
Step 1: Go to Gamestar Mechanic and follow your teacher's directions for signing up for an account.
Step 2: Complete a series of lessons at the direction of your teacher to learn about game design (not coding). You will learn through Quests, earn sprites, and badges.
- The introduction to Gamestar Mechanic will take you through a series of four Quests and five lessons to teach you the elements of successful game design and have you design a game to share with your friends.
- You can create and publish your own games, and get feedback from others.
Step 3: Create your first game and share it with classmates for feedback before you turn it in.
Competencies and Standards
MITECS Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students, and
4. Innovative Designer
a. know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems
c. develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process
5. Computational Thinker
b. collect data or identify relevant data sets
d. understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions
Websites and Documents
Websites
Videos from Outside Sources
21t4s Quizzes