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Unity Game Design and Coding - Level 0 (Intro Class)
STEAM K-12: Coding & Game Design Classes
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Average rating:4.7Number of reviews:(301)
A beginner level, introductory class where kids learn how to create their own 2D and 3D video games using the Unity game engine. In this class students will learn the basic fundamentals of coding with the C# programming language and Unity.
Class experience
This class is a great entry point into the world of game design and coding for your kids. In this extremely accessible course, students will journey through the entire game development process with Unity: from concept to design to development to porting & publishing on mobile platforms. The Unity Game Engine is free, and is one of the most popular and accessible game engines for both aspiring and professional developers to create cross platform games for PC, Mac, iPad, Android and more. Even...
For this class, students don't need to have any previous coding or game design experience UNITY Engine is a great entry into design and programming skills. Students will follow a kid-friendly process similar to real video game designers who create the games they play at home! Students will learn how to design, develop and produce games with Unity Engine's interface and prefabs (C# scripts) Students will learn programming and logic to code character, enemy behaviors and reactions to events in their games through If/Then Statements, Switches, Variables and Loops, all done through a clickable, drag and drop interface. Students will learn the basic fundamentals of game design. Students learn more advanced coding techniques and algorithms to enhance gameplay mechanics such as power-ups and custom graphical user interfaces. Students learn to use the tools available in UNITY Engine such as C# Plugins, Animation, Students will create interesting terrain, towns, villages and dungeons. Students will write dialogue for their in-game stories and in-game non-playable characters (NPC’s) Students will make use of Graphic Design techniques and programs such as GIMP/Photoshop and Powerpoint (Slides/Keynote) to enhance the visual appeal of their game. Students will learn about the importance of audio and sound design and implement appropriate music and sound effects into their games. Students complete game design planning through a Master Design Document process, prior to starting their final projects. Students will learn how to PORT their games and play them on various platforms (desktop, mobile, etc).
STEAM K-12 is an organization focused on coding and game design classes for K-12 Learners and professional learning opportunities for K-12 Educators. In our classes, kids learn to code, design video games and build software. Our learners have fun while learning the critical skills of tomorrow. We strive for the highest quality instruction. All of our teachers are either credentialed K-12 educators and/or have a background in Computer Science/Tech. STEAM K-12 was founded in 2020 by Giancarlos Alvarado - a certified K-12 Educator and Professional Senior iOS Developer from San Diego, California. Giancarlos has has over 14 years of classroom experience in K-12 with degrees from Rutgers University and The College of New Jersey; has developed and published 10 apps on iOS since 2015, and is currently working on his first PlayStation 5 title to be released in late 2022. Giancarlos has been teaching coding and video game design classes since 2006.
For this course, students will use the UNITY Game Engine. To install the Unity Game Engine you must first install Unity Hub (https://unity3d.com/get-unity/download). After installing Unity Hub, sign in with Google and/or create a unique Unity ID. On the left hand side of Unity Hub you will see an option that says "Installs". Click on the installs tab and then click the blue "Add" button on the top right corner. Install the latest "LTS" release (2019 as of this writing). This will install the actual Unity Game Engine. Unity runs on most Windows, Mac and Linux machines but the better your video card (GPU) and the more RAM you have (8GB bare minimum) the better the experience (regardless of platform). Please try and install the UNITY Engine PRIOR to class starting. Please see link above for downloading and installing. Please be aware that UNITY is a professional software suite (that's great for kids!) but it does require a decent computer. The more RAM and the faster the hard drive (SSD's) the better it'll perform and the happier our learners will be! URLs for primary software used in this class: Unity - https://unity3d.com/get-unity/download Visual Studio Code - https://code.visualstudio.com/download Blender - https://www.blender.org/download/ GIMP - https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS CLASS - PARENTS PLEASE READ: - This is a Game Development class that primarily uses the Unity Game Engine and Visual Studio Code to teach game design and coding respectively. - Planning, design, art, coding, math, science, music writing, reading, logic, coding, social science, etc., are some of the many topics covered in this class - NOT JUST CODING (like in real game / software development). - This is not a drop in class. Each class session and class level leads into the next. - Unity Engine is professional software and we do our best to make it accessible to everyone. Please be patient as this is a group class and everyone is at different levels (this is a GREAT thing). - Troubleshooting is a major part of software/game development. You do not just write code and expect things to happen. There will be a lot of troubleshooting and learning why things fail in this class. PLEASE BE PATIENT as this is a massive part of the LEARNING PROCESS and of teaching SOFTWARE ENGINEERING skills. - Game development is very complex and does not happen in a bubble. Multiple programs will (must) be used. These programs include (but are not limited to) Unity Hub, Unity Engine (Game Development), Visual Studio Code (Coding) and more. These programs are also updated frequently (sometimes weekly) so there is a a lot of downloading, installing and troubleshooting in this class - just like in real professional game development. - Coding is NOT the sole focus of this class. While there will be coding (and it significantly increases by class level), coding alone does not make a video game. - Finally and most importantly, this is class is both EDUCATIONAL and FUN!!!!!!!!
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Average rating:4.7Number of reviews:(301)
At STEAM K-12 we offer coding & game design classes for K-12 learners and educators. Our team is comprised of expert Teachers from around the U.S. Here on Outschool, we offer popular Game Design courses for Unity, RPG Maker and Unreal Engine! On...
Group Class
$36
weekly or $144 for 8 classes2x per week, 4 weeks
50 min
Completed by 1303 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 9-14
4-8 learners per class
