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Game Design Studio 2

Learn to plan and design a variety of game types. Over the course of a week, you will design and build 2D platformers, top-down RPGs, side scrollers, and physics-based games. Students learn a foundation of programming basics and apply them as they build a different class of game each day. Use the level editor to create a physics game like Angry Birds and design platformer and top-down worlds. At the end of the week, show off your own original games and play them with friends and family. No prior programming experience required.

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Beginner Level
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17 Lessons
57 Activities

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Recommended for Ages 11+

Web iPad

No Prerequisites

Tynker Code Blocks

Tynker's visual code blocks are a great way for beginners to code, without needing to remember how to type syntax. By dragging and dropping code blocks together, young coders can produce vividly complex programs and games in our proprietary app, which includes support for graphics, sound, physics, and more.

What Kids Learn

  • direction and turning
  • pattern recognition
  • sequencing
  • simple conditionals
  • simple loops

How Kids Learn with Tynker

Kids learn on their own with a guided, hands-on approach that individualizes the learning experience. Tynker's online courses provide a complete learning system for your child to master the fundamentals of programming. Tynker's visual programming language makes it easy to learn, and once kids gain proficiency, they can seamlessly transition to Javascript coding within the Tynker learning system. Enroll in one of our plans for unlimited play across all courses.

Game-Based Learning

Tynker's self-guided lessons break down coding concepts while solving puzzles and making cool apps.

Interactive Assessments

Quick practice quizzes and assessment tests evaluate a child's comprehension of subjects taught.

Captivating Topics

There's always something to learn with multiple subjects, projects, and coding languages available.

System Requirements

Online courses require a desktop computer, laptop computer, Chromebook, or Netbook with Internet connection and a Chrome (29+), Firefox (30+), Safari (7+), or Edge (20+) browser. No downloads required.

Introduction

Let’s start with the basics of coding with animation and keyboard events.

8 Activities:

  • Overview
  • Coding Puzzles
  • Dragon Dash
  • Forward
  • Forward. Fly Up.
  • Eat and Blast
  • Star Runner
  • House

Frame-based Animation

Program animations by switching between multiple costumes in a loop.

5 Activities:

  • Concepts
  • Walking Goblins 1
  • Walking Goblins 2
  • Cross the Battle Field
  • Fantasy Adventure

Custom Characters

Program, animate and customize characters using Tynker's Character Creator.

7 Activities:

  • Intro Video
  • Concepts
  • Tutorial Intro
  • Frame Based Animation
  • Built-In Animation
  • Gather the Armor
  • Alien Adventure Game

Physics

Use the physics engine and build physics destruction games.

6 Activities:

  • Introduction
  • Concepts
  • Turn on Physics
  • Set Active/Static
  • Dog Bridge
  • Create Your Own Structure

Impulse

Use physics impulses to control and animate characters.

6 Activities:

  • Introduction
  • Concepts
  • Apply Impulse
  • Airship Repair
  • Bouncing Balls
  • Break the Structure

Level Design

Discover Tynker's Platformer Level Editor through these puzzles.

3 Activities:

  • Move the Bad Guys
  • Movement
  • Next Level

Multi-level Games

Create games with multiple levels using Tynker's Level Editor.

1 Activity:

  • Multi-level Game

Top-Down Game Design

Discover Tynker's Top Down Level Editor through these puzzles.

4 Activities:

  • Concepts
  • Castle Dungeon
  • Enemy Attack
  • Level Up

Create a Top-Down Game

Create a detailed multi-level game using the Top Down Level Editor.

1 Activity:

  • Top Down Game Design

Make Games - Pong

Use all of the knowledge you've learned so far and make cool games!

2 Activities:

  • Introduce Pong
  • Pong

Make Games - Space Breaker

Use all of the knowledge you've learned so far and make cool games!

2 Activities:

  • Introduce Space Breaker
  • Space Breaker

Make Games - Medieval Soccer

Use all of the knowledge you've learned so far and make cool games!

2 Activities:

  • Introduce Medieval Soccer
  • Medieval Soccer

Make Games - Arcade Shooter

Use all of the knowledge you've learned so far and make cool games!

2 Activities:

  • Introduce Arcade Shooter
  • Arcade shooter

Make Games - Platformer

Use all of the knowledge you've learned so far and make cool games!

2 Activities:

  • Introduce Platformer
  • Platformer

Make Games - Cannon Fight

Use all of the knowledge you've learned so far and make cool games!

2 Activities:

  • Introduce Cannon Fight
  • Cannon Fight

Make Games - Maze Game

Use all of the knowledge you've learned so far and make cool games!

2 Activities:

  • Introduce Maze Game
  • Maze Game

Make Games - Tower Offense

Use all of the knowledge you've learned so far and make cool games!

2 Activities:

  • Introduce Tower Offense
  • Tower Offense

direction and turning

pattern recognition

sequencing

simple conditionals

simple loops

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