Wednesday, February 3, 2010

MYP 5 Design: Game Design

Design students this term are researching and will be designing and creating their own games. We will be looking at ancient games to board games to computer games. Check out student blogs (James, Chad, Joe) for interesting information on some very ancient games.

Today we started to look at the computer game program called Scratch. It's a gaming program designed by MIT. It can be downloaded here: http://scratch.mit.edu/

Getting Started with Scratch:
Download the starter guide: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/sites/infoscratch.media.mit.edu/docs/ScratchGettingStartedv14.pdf


Video Tutorials:
http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Support/Videos

Below is a good starting tutorial.





More great Tutorials can be found here:
http://learnscratch.org/

Check back to see what we plan on doing with Scratch!!
For now, familiarize yourself with the game interface, play some Scratch games and practice.

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