[game_edu] Teaching with Unity and Playmaker

[Angel Rivera]

On the purely html5 side of things, Construct2 (www
Scirra.com) is great. It has a visual environment, and it is fully
extensible using JavaScript.

Exports to all major stationary and mobile platforms, including the WiiU
console.

They have a free version; however, the site license for educational
institutions is something like £350 a year, unlimited seats, fully featured.

We use it in an intro game programming class open to all majors at the 100
level (we start with Scratch, then we switch to C2).

Cheers
-Angel
 On Oct 15, 2014 9:56 PM, "Malcolm Ryan" <malcolmr at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:

> I’m teaching a first-year university game design class to a mixed of
> programmers and non-programmers. I’m looking for a game engine for them to
> prototype in. My wish-list is:
>
>         1) A visual editor. Preferably something event based “when X do Y”.
>
>         2) An interface between this editor and a scripting interface, so
> the programmers can write code and then use the components they’ve written
> in the visual editor.
>
>         3) Games can be exported to the web and played online, for easy
> sharing.
>
>         4) It feels like an “adult” tool, not a toy (unlike Kodu).
> Something they will actually continue to use later, and won’t be
> embarrassed to put on their resume.
>
>         5) It is well-documented.
>
>         6) It is multi-platform (Windows and Mac, at least)
>
>         7) It is cheap/free (for educational customers)
>
> At the moment I am looking into Unity + Playmaker, but the Playmaker
> documentation is a bit sparse and while the visual editor is good for
> representing state machines, it doesn’t seem to express reactive rules very
> clearly (like: "while up is pressed, move forward”). Has anyone tried
> teaching with this combination?
>
> Malcolm
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