CodeHS Game Design Insider: New Game Development Course, AI PD, and Game Jams!

🎮 Coming Soon: Game Development in
Unity Course

This summer, a new Game Development in Unity course will be released. The course will replace the current Game Design in Unity course and add new concepts - 2D game development, Unity C# scripting, and much more! This course will also upgrade the version of Unity to 2022.3.9.

Students will embark on an exciting journey to master the fundamentals of game design and programming. Through hands-on projects and engaging challenges using the Unity game engine and CodeHS lessons, students will learn to create interactive and visually captivating 2D and 3D games.

This course equips students with essential programming skills in C# and Unity's scripting system while honing their problem-solving abilities and fostering creativity in game development.

Note: Student devices must be able to download and install the Unity platform (not compatible on Chromebooks).

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✨ Project: Create a Connections Game with AI

Challenge students to use an AI engine to recreate a game similar to the New York Times Connections game. This project includes an example of a recreated Connections game that was created by a CodeHS employee with limited coding experience. They relied entirely on AI for its creation. Students are challenged to do the same.

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👾 Game Jams

Indie (independent) game developers sometimes participate in game jams to practice their design and programming skills. Game jams, like hackathons focused on games, also provide opportunities for designers and developers in various disciplines to collaborate. Game jams can be in-person or virtual. Some jams last a day or a weekend while others may last a week or a month.

Hosting a class- or school-wide game jam not only provides your students with more opportunities to practice their game design and development skills, it can also pique the interest of other students. You can create your own game jam requirements or choose to join a game jam organized by indie developers or organizations.

The popular indie game site itch.io provides a tool to join and host your own game jam. You can preview current jams to get ideas or choose one to share with your students. You might choose to get your students involved in a game jam hosted by an organization, like the annual Global Game Jam. If your students have a great idea for a game jam, you could set up a student committee to plan and organize a school-wide game jam.

Need help getting started with a Game Jam idea? Try out this Game Jam Idea Generator program on CodeHS, fork it, and add to it as you get more ideas.

Game Jam Generator

📣 AI PD & Curriculum

CodeHS has new AI courses and dozens of AI projects you can plug into your existing curriculum! By introducing AI in computer science classrooms you can prepare students for a technology driven world and students can learn that what may seem like magic is actually just programs and algorithms!

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💡 AI Hints on CodeHS Pro

AI is a powerful tool that can help teachers identify learning needs, streamline their workflows, and provide targeted feedback.

CodeHS has recently launched AI Hints on Pro! This new tool identifies student errors and allows teachers to generate suggested hints they can provide students. CodeHS AI tools are currently in beta for Pro teachers.

CodeHS AI Tools