Video Game Design Foundations A — Open Curriculum Edition is the first semester of a full-year CTE course in Arts, Media and Entertainment (pathway D, Game Design and Integration) for grades 9-12, submitted as UC A-G area G. It is built on the California CTE Model Curriculum Standards for Arts, Media and Entertainment and the CCSS literacy standards for technical subjects.
Four units: Play, Players and the Designer’s Craft, The Design Process: Concepts, Documents and Paper Prototypes, Engines and Tools: Building in Godot 4, and Worlds, Story, Art Style and Sound. Students analyze games with formal frameworks, research careers, build and playtest a paper game, write GDScript in the free Godot 4 engine for movement, scoring, physics and animation, and close the semester with a narrative and art-direction concept and a portfolio.
Open Curriculum Edition. The approved course records (H5HZ6M and J5QTDP) list a commercial textbook. This edition delivers the same units on open sources instead: original SLS course text, the Godot Engine documentation (CC BY 3.0), Kenney game assets (CC0) and public-domain U.S. government sources. All software is free; no student account is required anywhere.
Curriculum
- 4 Sections
- 20 Lessons
- Lifetime
- Unit 1: Play, Players and the Designer’s Craft5
- Unit 2: The Design Process: Concepts, Documents and Paper Prototypes5
- Unit 3: Engines and Tools: Building in Godot 45
- 3.1Choosing an Engine: Godot, Unity, Unreal and the License Question50 mins
- 3.2Build: A Platformer Character with Gravity and Collision50 mins
- 3.3Game Feel: Controls, Input Devices and Usability55 mins
- 3.4Build: The Rotate-and-Thrust Ship50 mins
- 3.5Interactive Prototype and Engine Comparison Report50 mins
- Unit 4: Worlds, Story, Art Style and Sound5
Instructor
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