Video Game Design Foundations B — Open Curriculum Edition is the second 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: Digital Prototypes and Ethical Playtesting, Level Design, Accessibility and Player Experience, Balance, Monetization and Getting Games to Players, and Careers and the Capstone Playable Prototype. Students build and playtest a Godot prototype, design and audit levels for accessibility, balance systems with data, weigh the ethics of loot boxes, plan a launch with a web export, prepare for careers and SkillsUSA, and finish with a playable prototype defended at a showcase.
Open Curriculum Edition. The approved course records (H5HZ6M and J5QTDP) list a commercial textbook. This edition delivers the same units on open sources: original SLS course text, the Godot Engine documentation (CC BY 3.0), Kenney game assets (CC0) and public-domain U.S. government sources (FTC, BLS). All software is free; no student account is required anywhere, and publishing is done through a teacher-managed page.
Curriculum
- 4 Sections
- 20 Lessons
- Lifetime
- Unit 1: Digital Prototypes and Ethical Playtesting5
- Unit 2: Level Design, Accessibility and Player Experience5
- 2.1How Levels Teach: Pacing, Flow and Guidance50 mins
- 2.2Build: A Tile-Based Level with Checkpoints and a Following Camera50 mins
- 2.3Accessibility Audit: Designing for More Players55 mins
- 2.4Build: Accessibility Options — Remapping, Game Speed and Readable Text50 mins
- 2.5Level Map, Playtest and Accessible Revision50 mins
- Unit 3: Balance, Monetization and Getting Games to Players5
- Unit 4: Careers and the Capstone Playable Prototype5
- 4.1Working in Games: Roles, Crunch, Unions and Contracts50 mins
- 4.2Build: Menus, Pause and a Shippable Build50 mins
- 4.3Studio Crit: Milestone Review, Scope and SkillsUSA55 mins
- 4.4Career Profile, Résumé and Mock Interview50 mins
- 4.5Capstone: Playable Prototype, Showcase Pitch and Reflective Essay50 mins
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