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Utah Game Development Fundamentals 1

Description

In this lesson students learn about the course objectives, the definition of game design, and the purpose of using game engines to design and build video games. They’ll complete a self-reflection assignment to help better understand their interest in game design and previous experience.

Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Describe the objectives of the course
  • Define game design
  • Explain how game engines benefit game designers and developers
Description

In this lesson, students learn about the basic history of video games and the industry. Students will reflect on how video games evolved with technological improvements and changes to game design and development in the early years of the industry.

Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Describe the basic evolution of video games
  • Explain how technology improvements evolved the video game industry
  • Describe early users of video games and how the industry became more mainstream
Description

In this lesson, students explore game genres and perspectives that are used to categorize different types of video games.

Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Identify different perspectives in video games
  • Identify different game genres
  • Categorize games based on perspective and/or game genre
Description

In this lesson, students will learn about the huge impact the video game has had economically and on other non-game industries.

Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Broadly describe the impact the video game industry has had in the US
  • Identify how the video game industry contributes to the US economy
  • Explain how the video game industry has affected other industries
Description

In this lesson, students will explore and reflect on how video games have provided opportunities for people to connect socially since the 1970’s.

Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Understand how social gaming has changed since the 1970’s
  • Explain how social gaming environments have affected a variety of individuals over time
  • Reflect on how social gaming experiences has appeared in their lives.