[Yr7-10it] Gamemaker assessment task

[claire]

A search of Amazon revealed:

The Game Maker's Apprentice shows you how to create nine exciting games using the wildly popular Game Maker game creation tool. This book covers a range of genres, including action, adventure, and puzzle games--complete with professional quality sound effects and visuals. It discusses game design theory and features practical examples of how this can be applied to making games that are more fun to play.

Game Maker allows games to be created using a simple drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to have any prior coding experience. It includes an optional programming language for adding advanced features to your games, when you feel ready to do so. You can obtain more information by visiting book.gamemaker.nl.

The authors include the creator of the Game Maker tool and a former professional game programmer, so you'll glean understanding from their expertise. The book also includes a CD containing Game Maker software and all of the game projects that are created in the book--plus a host of professional-quality graphics and sound effects that you can use in your own games.



About the Authors
Jacob Habgood worked in the UK Games Industry for seven years, writing console games for Gremlin Interactive and Infogrames/Atari. During this time he contributed to a wide range of titles and lead the programming teams on MicroMachines (PS2, X-Box and Game Cube) and Hogs of War (PlayStation). Jacob is now a doctoral student at the University of Nottingham, researching the educational potential of computer games. As part of this research, Jacob runs clubs and workshops teaching children and teenagers how to make their own computer games, providing free activities and resourcesthrough his website: www.gamelearning.net.

Mark Overmars is a full professor in Computer Science at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Here he heads the center for Advanced Gaming and Simulation. One of his research domains is computer games. He is one of the founders of the Utrecht Platform for Game Education and Research and teaches courses on computer game design at Utrecht University. Mark is the author of many software packages. In particular, he is the author of the Game Maker software package which will be used as development tool in this book

(please note, this is not endorsing the book as I haven't used or seen it!)
Claire Bloom
Warrandyte High



> Sylvia Pastore-Bautista <pastosy at mowbray.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> Can you tell me the author of the book that you used as I too am  
> teaching Year 8 students and intend to learn about gamemaker so I can  
> teach them it next term. Apart from the gamemaker site are there sites  
> that you can recommend to learn gamemaker as I need to make sure I  
> know it before teaching the kids.
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> Quoting Kevork Krozian <Kroset at novell1.fhc.vic.edu.au>:
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> > Hi Folks,
> >
> >     Having just calmed down after the euphoria of discovering I had   
> > a junior IT class this year for the first time since 1990, I decided  
> >  to give them 3 learning activities with Gamemaker :
> >         1. Catch the clown ( tutorial on the gamemaker site )
> >         2. Devilishly Easy ( Ch 2 in The Game Maker's Apprentice   
> > textbook ISBN 1-59059-615-3 )
> >         3. Wingman Sam  ( Ch 9 in The Game Maker's Apprentice   
> > textbook ISBN 1-59059-615-3 )
> >
> >  To be honest the students did struggle a bit with the last task but  
> >  we survived.  However, students have been lining up at recess and   
> > lunchtime just for the chance to get in and do games programming !!!
> >
> >  What about assessment  ?
> >
> >   I have decided to mirror the Wingman Sam game as a Tank game with   
> > 2 tanks going over the desert using/modifying some of the sprites   
> > from the Ch 10 resources in the Game Maker's Apprentice textbook.
> >
> >  I have created the assessment marking sheet to see how many of the   
> > skills students will be able to duplicate. I have attached this for   
> > your information . Take it or leave it , use it or modify it as you   
> > please.
> >
> > I will give this to the students the first day back next term and   
> > see how they go . As always comments are welcome.
> >
> > Best Wishes
> >
> >
> >
> >
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