Students will learn about the field of interactive fiction. They will also be writing and coding their own interactive video game stories.

An Interactive Fiction Gamebook allows the reader to participate in the story by making choices. The narrative branches along various paths, with different endings to the story. Learners can also include animations, music, and game battles to their stories.

In this class, students are encouraged to write with their own style and their own voice, using their own imagination. 

**NOTE:  This class may meet once a week for 8-weeks OR "camp-style" in which it will meet four straight days for 2 weeks.**

🚨 Please download and test Clickteam (or Games Factory) App prior to starting the class. The Mac's newer updates have been listing the Clickteam Fusion as an "unidentified developer". If you get this message, it may require a few steps to get it running: https://appleinsider.com/articles/16/04/13/how-to-install-and-run-mac-apps-that-dont-come-from-the-mac-app-store
💡 If Clickteam (or Games Factory) is installed on the same computer as Zoom, it would be easier for students to show what they are doing, if they need help. They could also be able to show their classmates what they created.
💾 See 'Supply List' below for link to download the Games Factory or Clickteam Fusion app.

ITINERARY: 

【Week 1】
✔️ Introduction / Intro Slideshow.
✏️  "Interactive" Group Story Making Activity 
🎲 GAMEBOOK PLAYING - Students will use their social and critical thinking skills to play "Starship Traveler", a Gamebook Video Game. Students will take different roles in the story game: Captain, Doctor, Science Officer, Security Officer, etc.  The students will discuss with their peers and make their best decisions to make in the game.

【Week 2】
✔️ STUDENT SHARE: Students talk about the interactive fiction stories that they read or played and what kind of endings that they got. 
(Its okay if more than one student shares the same gamebook, as their stories will still be different.)
✔️ Slideshow on Interactive Story Planning.
✔️ Story planning: Students plan out their characters, story, plot. They will include their main story ending.
      (Other group members can help assist with the possible choice options to the story.)
🎲 GAMEBOOK PLAYING - Students will continue the "Starship Traveler" Gamebook Story, unless it is already finished. If gamebook is finished, students will have a choice of playing a different game book.
      Here are other gamebook choices:
      ✴ "Appointment with F.E.A.R" - Students make their own superhero and go on a comic book style gamebook adventure story.
      ✴ "The Forest of Doom" - Students go through a fantasy story in which the hero undertakes a quest through a perilous forest.
      ✴ "80 Days" - The plot is a choose your adventure story that is based on Jules Verne's 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days.
📝 For Homework (optional), students continue working on their stories.

【Week 3】
✔️ Direct Instruction - Students learn how to code their stories on Clickteam Fusion (or Games Factory), using text, pictures, and buttons.
✔️ Students start coding their own interaction fiction story on Games Factory or Clickteam Fusion.
📝 For Homework (optional), students continue working on their stories.

【Week 4 - Week 7】
✔️ Students code their own interaction fiction story on Games Factory or Clickteam Fusion. They can include RPG game elements, if they want. They can share their screens through Zoom, if they need help from the instructor (or would like to share their games with the class).
📝 For Homework (optional), students continue working on their stories.

【Week 8】
✔️ Students share their own interaction fiction story with the class.
✔️ Students are introduced to online websites for making interactive stories.
🎲 GAMEBOOK PLAYING - Students will continue the Gamebook Story from the previous class.

No background experience in coding is required, but helpful.

Much of the class is focused on the story writing aspect of game development than coding. Pictures/artwork for the game are mostly taken from the Clickteam Library or imported from pictures from the student's computer (or off the internet). For a class more focused on game coding, I teach an App Designers class. And, for a class with a more gentler introduction to coding (and students being able to do more in designing their own character art and backgrounds), they can take my Retro Game Coding Class.

This is a LIVE class and is NOT pre-recorded. This class will be presented via camera from the instructor. 
He will have one camera at his face and another will be a shared screen where the students can see what he is dong on the computer, so that the student can see the instructor as speaks, and be able to observe step-by-step what the instructor is doing. Students can interact with the instructor, as well ask ask questions during instruction. 

Students are expected to communicate with the teacher. Communication, visuals, and hands-on instruction are all the things that I are important in helping the students get a better understanding of the subject.