Game Development

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Goals, rules and challenges
• Rewards and feedback
• Types of games

🎬 Animated demo

Slide the challenge level and find the fun zone between boring and too hard.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Analyse your favourite game
• Invent a playground game

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Characters and worlds
• Simple storylines
• One-page game plan

🎬 Animated demo

An idea grows into a game world with a hero and a goal.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Game design page
• Story storyboard

🎯 What you’ll learn

• What sprites are
• Drawing pixel characters
• Animation frames

🎬 Animated demo

A pixel hero walks using a few animation frames.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Pixel art hero
• Walking animation

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Keyboard and touch controls
• x and y positions
• Keeping inside the screen

🎬 Animated demo

Step through the code as the hero moves right and stops at the screen edge.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Move-the-hero demo
• Maze walker

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Keeping score
• Lives and game over
• Showing them on screen

🎬 Animated demo

Collect coins, score goes up; hit a trap, lose a life.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Coin collector
• Three-lives game

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Detecting touching
• Walls and enemies
• Collecting items

🎬 Animated demo

Step through a collision check as the hero walks up to a coin and collects it.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Dodge-the-blocks game
• Collect-the-stars game

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Easy to hard
• New levels
• Keeping players hooked

🎬 Animated demo

Each level gets faster and trickier.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Three-level game
• Difficulty settings

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Countdown timers
• Random enemies and items
• Surprise and replay value

🎬 Animated demo

A countdown timer ticks to zero while enemies spawn in random places.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• 60-second challenge
• Random treasure hunt

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Sound effects
• Background music
• Feedback sounds

🎬 Animated demo

Change a sound wave’s pitch and loudness, then match sounds to game events.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Add sounds to your game
• Make your own sound effects

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Game loops
• Drawing with code
• Putting it all together

🎬 Animated demo

A Python game runs frame by frame.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Catch-the-fruit game
• Pong-style game

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Play-testing with friends
• Finding bugs
• Balancing difficulty

🎬 Animated demo

Testers find a bug and the game gets better.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Play-test survey
• Bug fixing list

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Finish and polish
• Share with friends
• Get feedback

🎬 Animated demo

Your finished game is played by friends.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Your own arcade game
• Educational game for juniors (final project)