[game_edu] Suggestions for HS Game Design Software

[McGill, Monica]

You might also take a look at Greenfoot. (http://www.greenfoot.org/) There
is  resource center for instructors plus a place for students to upload
their completed games and receive ratings from others.

Monica

On 10/12/11 4:14 AM, "game_edu-request at igda.org" <game_edu-request at igda.org>
wrote:


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> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:21:56 -0400 (EDT)

> From: Coach Payne <coachpayne at aol.com>

> Subject: [game_edu] Suggestions for HS Game Design Software

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> Hi Folks:

> 

> 

> Quick question - I'm developing a mini-term introduction to Game Design course

> at a high school.  In a course I taught in a prior school, a one-semester

> block course (90 minutes/day, 5 days/week), students used Alice, Scratch,

> Python, Ruby, and Game Maker to make games.  The favorites were Game Maker and

> Scratch.  I'd be interested in what the professional community might suggest.

> I've used Ian Schreiber's material for a lot of my resource material.  An idea

> of what I've done in the past may be found at http://dpsgaming.wikispaces.com/

> .

> 

> 

> Second question - when I lived near the Research Triangle, I was able to talk

> directly to game development professionals, and attended events in the area.

> The area to which I've relocated seems to have a dearth of game developers.

> I'd love to develop a relationship with people who REALLY make games, even at

> a distance.  I've had Skype-conferences in the past with West Coast

> developers, during which time the students would ask questions and interact

> with developers.  As a side note, the school where I'm currently teaching is

> an independent girls' school, but the minicourse would also include boys from

> their adjacent school.  I might be interested in developing this into a

> larger, perhaps year-long course at both schools, should I develop an interest

> in the idea.  I'm a physics teacher, but I taught computer science for many

> years.  (I'd love to teach Game Development with C++ or Java, but that's not

> going to happen in a miniterm!)

> 

> 

> Thanks.  I really would appreciate suggestions!

> 

> 

> Charlie Payne, M.Ed.

> Teacher of Physics

> St. Catherine's School

> Richmond, VA