Have you ever wanted to be a game designer? In this course, you’ll learn all about the basics of game design in our favourite game: Minecraft! You’ll discover how storyboards, plot, setting, characters, and game mechanics like Redstone and commands come together to create an awesome game that everyone in class will have a chance to play.

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Areas of Focus:

• Narrative and storyboarding
• Architecture
• Planning and Design
• Engineering
• Redstone and command coding

Main Skills to be taught and practiced:

• Critical thinking
• Problem solving
• Planning
• Level design
• Mechanical engineering

End-of-Course Project:

A working game that other students will be able to test and play.

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Lesson plans: (subject to change)

Class 1: Types of games

Class 2: Plot and Characters

Class 3: Level design

Class 4: Redstone integration

Class 5: NPCs & Command block integration

Class 6: Build intensive

Class 7: Build finalization

Class 8: Game jam

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The latest version of MEE (Minecraft Education Edition).

MEE license will be provided by Focus Learning free of charge.