Game Design Camps. Which one? having trouble deciding? [Read on...]
NEW for 2008 - ROLE PLAYING GAMES - RPGs
[Level 1 RPG Design] [Aug 11-15 Dartmouth Sportsplex] Create your own worlds!
[Registration forms]
Create your own original role-playing games. Design your own characters and fantasy worlds. You make the rules, plot the map and you determine battleground and game stategies.
Take home your finished game(s) on a CD at the end of the camp week. Share them with family and friends. You will be able to play your games on most computers.
LET THE GAMES BEGIN! [Level 1 Game Design] [July 14-18 Dartmouth Sportsplex]
The stakes are high and the competition is stiff ... [Registration forms]
Create aMazing mazes and other 2D games. Animate your characters, create colourful monsters and traps. See if you can beat your own high scores! Develop game strategies with increasing difficulties as your character progresses through the levels.
Surprise your friends and family with your games you designed on a CD that you take home at the end of the camp week. You will be able to play your games on most computers.
ONWARD & UPWARD THROUGH THE LEVELS [Level 2 Game Design] [July 21-25 Dartmouth Sportsplex] Take your game design skills to the next level ... [Registration forms]
Develop more difficullt challenges - test the limits of your players and your skills. Learn to create special effects such as: explosions, reverse gravity, transporters and laser beams. Combat enemies and monsters. Introduce bosses to your final levels.
By the end of week two you will have covered the basics for creating mazes, platformers and scrolling shooters. You will have a game CD to take home featuring games you have designed!
Game Design Camps. Which one? Let the Games Begin or RPG Game Design Camp
Let the Games Begin! In this camp the focus is on designing 2D games, a lot like Pacman or Paper Mario. Types of games include mazes, platformers, scrolling shooters, paddle ball games and other 2D games.
You will learn about the different things that go into game creation. You will design the characters, draw the backgrounds, learn about strategic game design and be introduced to ‘programming’ and writing scripts in the level 2 camp.
RPG Game Design Camp is game design with the emphasis on the story (Role Playing Games). In this camp you will create your own game story and plan a quest. You will have lots of opportunity to create dialogs between characters, set up many levels, towns, buildings or worlds that your characters will move through. Some popular RPG games are the Pokemon games for Gameboy.
You will also learn how to draw your own characters, objects and backgrounds to use in your game.
