Game Design – Week 8 – Logic, Flowcharts, and Coding

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When asked the most important thing I should teach my students, the MIT student I was interviewing simply stated , ‘ teach them logic.’ – Mr. Le Duc

SUMMARY

• Write your weekly summary here, last, at the end of the week…
  • Only one to two sentences

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 15 minutes in this ‘room’ on either ONE of the scripting languages below, Javascript or C#  (NOT BOTH)

PlayCanvas

• https://www.sololearn.com/Course/JavaScript/
• Write the latest lesson you have completed today

Unity

• https://www.sololearn.com/Course/CSharp/

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 30 minutes in this ‘room’
• Watch Chicken Little Game Logic Flowchart
• Watch Creating a Simple Flowchart in Diagrams.net (Draw.io) Tutorial
• Write notes to help you remember the steps to creating a flowchart
• prepare game first
• wait for the fist player
• have concept ready
• use different shapes for different things
• make sure it flows
• use lines to show where things go
• don’t overdue it

Mr. Le Duc’s Flowchart Shape Guide

More Flowchart Creation Resources

• http://capitalcomtech.info/2017/02/28/design-elements-flowchart/
• Design Elements Flowcharts (PDF)

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

• Use Draw.io and save in your Google Drive
• We will share these in class, soon
• https://app.diagrams.net/#G1enNoJOR10MqHVBitcBHQx6tLBiK029S1
• it was harder then i though to make but it makes stuff run way smoother. i really like this idea and i will probably use it a lot more

OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• it made me notice how much we heard people talking about killing their self or talking there self down and it’s not a shock factor because we are used to it

STUDIO (GAME DESIGN)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 60 minutes in this ‘room’ on either ONE of the game engines below, (NOT BOTH)

PlayCanvas

• Start Daniel Wood’s, PlayCanvas Tutorial 1 – Getting started with PlayCanvas
• For extra support, explore PlayCanvas Tutorials: https://developer.playcanvas.com/en/tutorials/

Unity

• Start the Unity tutorials
  • https://learn.unity.com/course/beginner-design-unity-game-development-course
• Work for no more than 60 minutes

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

• the most interesting stuff i learned was the flow chart I didn’t know you can use it for work I don’t know kinda shocked me.

WEEKLY ACTIVITY EVALUATION