Games Master: Beginner’s Computer Game Programming

Fancy yourself as a game designer? With this crash course on some of the basics of coding, you will learn how to create your own simple games.

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Workshop One: Guess the Number

SStarting off in the ‘real world’, students will explore – through the unusual medium of jam and toast – how simple human instructions can be surprisingly complex for a computer to interpret, before applying this understanding to creating a number-guessing game, and using computer code to refine and build up the complexity of their games.

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Workshop Two: Snake

In this second session, students will turn to a different element of game design by looking at how to create a graphical game, learning about how computers use code to visually represent pixels and colours, before building on their knowledge of coding to customise the difficulty level of their game.

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