Middle School course

Game Design 202

GRADES 6-8
INTERMEDIATE
WEB
20 LESSONS

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Answer Key

Module 1: Mirror Image

Module 2: 4 Squares

Module 3: Diamond Star

Module 4: Box

Module 5: Snowflake

Module 6: Honeycomb

U.S. Standards

CCSS-Math: 6.NS.C.6, MP.1
CCSS-ELA: RI.7.4, RI.8.4, 6-8.RST.3, 6-8.RST.4, 6-8.RST.7
CSTA: 2-AP-10, 2-AP-11, 2-AP-13, 2-AP-17
CS CA: 6-8.AP.10, 6-8.AP.13, 6-8.AP.17
ISTE: 1.c, 1.d, 4.d, 5.c, 5.d, 6.b

Lesson 18: Repeating Patterns

Course: | Web

Mirror Image
4 Squares
Diamond Star
Box
Snowflake
Honeycomb
Bonus 4

Description

Students continue to apply what they have learned, and learn more advanced programming principles as they complete Cannon Crasher, the projectile physics game, and build a brand new top-down side scrolling adventure. In Cannon Crasher, they complete the game by adding impulses, setting angles, trajectories and programming collisions. In Dragon Attack, students define multiple levels, multiple lives and program a boss enemy, while learning about variables and cloning.

Topics Covered: Events, keyboard and mouse interaction, conditional loops, nested loops, sending and receiving messages, fluid motion, parallax scrolling, local and global variables, functions, and object cloning.

What Students Learn

Build complex multi-level games
Use variables to keep score
Use cloning to create actors programmatically
Build algorithms using complex conditional logic
Define and use functions with parameters
Build physics projects using gravity, impulse, and velocity
Understand parallelism with multiple scripts
Program different behaviors for different actors
Publish projects to the Web
Troubleshoot and debug programs

Technical Requirements

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