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Making games with GDevelop

Games programming and development

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  • Lesson 1 Properties and particle emitters
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  • Lesson 2 Characters and sprites
  • Lesson 3 Collision detection
  • Lesson 4 Falling and spawning
  • Lesson 5 Rewards and hazards
  • Lesson 6 Unit assessment

There are 5 worksheets and 5 homework tasks in this unit.

Summary

This unit gives students practical opportunities to design and program two games. Students begin by creating a firework game that makes use of particle emitters and events. They then spend four lessons developing a platform game that makes use of many key games programming concepts such as sprites, collision detection and variables for use in scoring. Key object oriented programming concepts (OOP), such as objects and instances, are introduced in a KS3 appropriate manner. Students will develop programming skills through the development and iterative testing of their games. The programming language makes use of a visual programming environment which is an excellent transition between block programming and text programming.

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The currently available units have been written to satisfy the new National Curriculum for Computing, they are designed for teaching at KS3 but individual lessons in some units may also be appropriate for teaching Key Stages 2 or 4, particularly where Year 10 students may not previously have been exposed to certain topics.

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Inside the Unit...

  • Download Free Sample 6.5mb

    Areas Covered

    • Lesson 1 Properties and particle emitters
    • Download free sample above
    • Lesson 2 Characters and sprites
    • Lesson 3 Collision detection
    • Lesson 4 Falling and spawning
    • Lesson 5 Rewards and hazards
    • Lesson 6 Unit assessment

    There are 5 worksheets and 5 homework tasks in this unit.

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