Video-games 101: Unleashing the potential of students and teachers to create fun stuff
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The document discusses a video game course titled 'Video Games 101' focusing on harnessing the creative potential of students and teachers using the Scratch platform. It emphasizes the need for more engaging and complex game design tutorials to overcome the limitations of short, simple video tutorials. The course offers a roadmap of activities and video content designed to support diverse learning paces and encourages community involvement in content creation.
Video-games 101: Unleashing the potential of students and teachers to create fun stuff
- 1. Scratch Conference 25-27 July 2013, Barcelona Rubén del Río Pablo Garaizar Universidad de Deusto VIDEOGAMES 101: UNLEASHING THE POTENTIAL OF STUDENTS AND TEACHERS TO CREATE FUN STUFF
- 2. Outline ● Yet Another Video-game Course? ● Video-games 101: ● Basics. ● Video-games: Snake, Break-out, Checkers, PacMan, Super-Tux. ● Roadmap ● Conclusions
- 3. Yet Another Video-game Course?
- 4. There are hundreds of Scratch tutorials Literally http://scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/
- 5. Most of them are about video-games Not all of them http://scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/history-poison-american-food
- 6. But usually they are too simple No stages, no high-scores, simple physics, etc. http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/11438647/
- 7. The 1-hour tutorial syndrome I already know EVERYTHING about Scratch http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmannion/6453262489/
- 8. Let's face big challenges Design and create a real video-game, not a demo http://www.flickr.com/photos/nwinton/1805350177/
- 9. But... Why a MOOC? Nobody told you that 2013 is the anti-MOOC year?
- 10. Not everybody learns at the same pace Some get it immediately and get bored, some others need more time http://www.flickr.com/photos/nwinton/1805350177/
- 11. Video-tutorials are just canned content But there is still place for creativity in their projects http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnak/3632943359/
- 12. We can overcome the 1-hour tutorial syndrome Not only in Programming, but also in Maths, Physics or Arts http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/7694808786/
- 13. We wanted a simple platform The course is currently at Udemy http://udemy.com/scratch-20
- 14. Video-games 101
- 15. The basics Loops, levels, scores, high-scores, end of the game, etc. http://www.flickr.com/photos/waagsociety/8535813901/
- 17. Break-out Basic physics, levels, power ups, destroy http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10114215/
- 18. Checkers Mouse-based interactions, limited movements by the rules, 2-players, matching & destroy http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10124912/
- 19. Pac-Man Tile-based game development, simple IA for ghosts, fancy scoring display, avoid & destroy http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/11416867/
- 20. Super-Tux Horizontal scrolling, relative physics, different levels, avoid http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/11549583/
- 21. Roadmap
- 22. Roadmap There is still work to do http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/videogames-101
- 23. Conclusions
- 24. Up to 60 videos & 40 activities From the basics to real video-games http://udemy.com/scratch-20
- 25. There is still work to do New video-games, new activities, new editions of the MOOC, etc. http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10266404/ http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10028395/
- 26. We want to share it with the community All the content is copyleft, we are open to suggestions, comments or criticism http://www.flickr.com/photos/waagsociety/8536919460/
- 27. Thank you ;-) and... happy scratching! 2rurio txipi
- 28. References ● Resnick, M., Maloney, J., Monroy-Hernández, A., Rusk, N., Eastmond, E., Brennan, K., ... & Kafai, Y. (2009). Scratch: programming for all. Communications of the ACM, 52(11), 60-67. ● Czikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow: The psychology of optimal experience. Praha: Lidové Noviny. ● Salen, K. (2004). Rules of play: Game design fundamentals. The MIT Press. ● Scratch 2.0, http://scratch.mit.edu.
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