https://sites.google.com/site/irmproject/home
“The benefit of using this tool is that you can develop games without the knowledge of programing language. It makes you possible use your time effectively to develop games.”
Category Archives: Game Programming
Thinking Myself Website
http://games.thinkingmyself.com/
Some interactive lessons for learning about computational thinking. Includes decomposition, patterns, abstraction and algorithms
http://fuse.microsoft.com/page/kodu
http://fuse.microsoft.com/page/kodu
Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills
Ask Slashdot: Tools For Teaching High School Kids How To Make Games?
http://ask.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/12/27/152228
Lots of comments on what tool to use to teach students about programming games. Some of the usual tools like Scratch and Game Maker are mentioned but there are more professional tools used too!
Python Game Book
The Python Game Book is a free creative-commons licensed multilingual dokuwiki book written by Horst JENS (mostly) and friends. By registering (free) you can edit and create pages in this wiki.
The Python Game Book aims to provide interested students and teachers a broad range of material to teach themselves how to write computer games using the language Python and other free Open Source tools.
Developer Junior
http://butterscotch.com/show/Developer-Junior
“If you’re a kid born to be a game developer or a tech guru, Developer Junior is for you. This video series stars Joey deVilla and Junior, a fast-talking skater kid, who use Microsoft tools to teach kids to program. Learn to build your own web site, edit video, develop your own videogames, program your own software and more.
This show is funded by and co-produced with Microsoft.”
Game Programming Tools
http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2007/02/game-programming-tools.html
Kind of an old list but this blog post does list a lot of resources for game programming!
Some interesting Game Maker links
We are looking to teach Game Maker again this year. I did some more searching and found:
1. http://gm.destronmedia.com/?page_id=104&did=25 – The Beginers Guide To Game Maker 7.0 Programing
2. http://gm.destronmedia.com/?page_id=104&did=4 – Super Mario example game
3. http://digitalworlds.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/moving-on-with-game-maker-a-maze-game/ – ideas for adding to the example maze game
4. http://www.roencia.com/vidsgamemaker.html – lots of video tutorials for Gamemaker 7, includes code
5. http://www.pageflakes.com/ouseful/22238750 – a great page with lots of ideas for adding features to some common Game Maker examples like the Catch a Clown game, Maze Game and Platform Game
Book: Invent Your Own Computer Games with PYTHON
“Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python” is a book that teaches you how to program computer games in the Python programming language. Each chapter gives you the complete source code for a new game, and then teaches the programming concepts from the example. IYOCGwP was written to be understandable by 10 to 12 year olds, although it is great for anyone of any age who has never programmed before. It is a book to teach computer programming to non-programmers by making simple (but fun) games. IYOCGwP is distributed under the Creative Commons license.
Idea of Game to duplicate
http://ecodrivingusa.com/#/virtual-road-test/
It might be fun if students can use a tool like Scratch or Gamemaker to duplicate a game like this!
