Highlights:
Game Development Foundations (GDF) leverages the excitement of creating games to teach computer science, mathematics, and problem-solving.
Students build real games with JavaScript and Phaser and learn JavaScript variables, functions, objects, arrays, input, physics, and events alongside game design, debugging, and documentation. Students build 4 projects of increasing complexity as they learn to apply new tools and techniques.
Certifications:
Upon completing this course, students will be prepared to earn the following industry-recognized certification:
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Course Objectives:
Course Outline:
Discovering Games & Your Development Environment
Students discover why games matter, get comfortable with the tools they’ll use in the course, and write their first code so sprites and simple scenes appear on screen.
Programming Foundations & Games
Students learn how professional design and programming fit together, then build core coding habits in JavaScript and Phaser until they can ship a small physics-based game end to end.
Advanced Programming & Game Logic
Students go deeper into logic, data, events, and debugging so they can reason about real game behavior and assemble a more complex, interactive title from many moving parts.
Complete Game Development
Students plan and build bigger games from scratch with levels, input, mechanics, and polish. Then they practice testing and iteration so they can extend a project with their own ideas.
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