Game Design

• Move from Apprentice to Master Game Designer! This course helps you develop a wide range of creative skills, including conceptualizing game interactions, drafting storyboards, designing characters and applying sound and art images to computer games. Choose your favorite subject for the project topic—which is making a game of your own! And that’s not all. You’ll actually publish your game on your own website for everyone to play!
• Software Used in the class:
  Torque Game Engine®, Macromedia® Flash®, Multimedia Fusion 2®
• Who will like this course?
  Game design is perfect for those who want to create the perfect game and who have a wide range of creative skills.
• Recommended Prerequisites:
  Have prior knowledge in programming or successfully completed course on Visual Basic, Visual Basic.net or C++ programming language.
• Workshop Titles:
  The World of Gaming
  Building Your First Game
  Creating a Scrolling Game
  Creating a First Person Shooter Game
  Designing Your Own Game
  Additional Projects
• Some Sample Projects
  First Person Shooter – Use FPS Creator to develop a game environment with rooms, characters, weapons, and ammo.
  Summer Snowman – Use Multimedia Fusion 2.0 to create a game in the classic platform genre. Participants can use ready-made graphics or add some of their own.
  Your Original Game – plan and then build an original game. Participants apply what they have learned about genres and essential game elements to create an engaging game from scratch.
• Length of training:
  Morning session: Monday to Thursday (9 am - 12 noon) for two weeks
  Afternoon session: Monday to Thursday (1 pm - 4 pm) for two weeks
• Schedule:
• Session I- June 9-19, 2008
• University of Houston- Downtown (Morning session)
• The John Cooper High School (Morning session)
• Harold D. Guthrie Center for Excellence (Morning session)
• University of Houston- Clear Lake (Morning session)
• Wharton County Junior College (Sugar Land) (Afternoon session)
• Session II- June 23-July 3, 2008
• Wharton County Junior College (Sugar Land) (Morning session)
• Harold D. Guthrie Center for Excellence (Afternoon session)
• University of Houston- Clear Lake (Afternoon session)
• University of Houston- Downtown (Afternoon session)
• The John Cooper High School (Afternoon session)
• Session III- July 7-17, 2008
• University of Houston- Clear Lake (Morning session)
• University of Houston- Downtown (Morning session)
• Harold D. Guthrie Center for Excellence (Morning session)
• Wharton County Junior College (Sugar Land) (Afternoon session)
• Tuition:
  Early-Bird Registration - $285 (on or before March 31, 2008)
  Early Registration - $295 (April 1-May 26, 2008)
  Regular Registration - $315 (After May 26, 2008)
  (includes course materials)