WorldSkills Barbados Juniors Future Skills Camp 2024

Course Name

Introducton to Game Development

Trainer(s)

Dan McCabe

Camp Overview:

This course introduces game development, suitable for beginners and those with some programming knowledge. It covers game design principles, story creation, user experience, and the use of industry-standard tools and game engines like Unity or Unreal Engine. It aims to transform your game ideas into reality.

General Objectives:

To equip students with the fundamental knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to design, develop, and implement a playable game.

Learning Outcomes:

Learners who complete this course will be able to:

  • Understand the difference between gaming and game development.

  • Realize the importance of scope and how to manage it.

  • Develop a clear understanding of the UI layout inside of Unreal Engine

  • Be able to manipulate transform and material parameters.

  • Analyze plan and identify where to adapt it based on knew knowledge.

  • Have the skills necessary to progress with blocking out a level in Unreal Engine

  • Be able to identify and troubleshoot issues at a game level.

  • Utilizing lighting, VFX and sound to start adding more polish.

  • Use initiative to foresee potential issues and resolve them.

  • Develop results-oriented planning skills with regards to finishing a project.

  • Fixing bugs and blocking exploits.

  • Adding UI

  • Understand marketing strategy for video games.

  • Learn how to create a website capable of hosting a game product.

  • Be able to compile a game into an executable file to be run on windows.

Benefits:

Learners would be able to create a game and run it on windows.

Camp duration

August 12th, 2024 - August 16th 2024

Time:

9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Approach:

In-person instruction, demonstrations, hands-on activities and exercises.

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