5.+Designing+Games

**5.1. Introduction to Games Design**
 * creators, not consumers
 * creating games can start very early age
 * designing games give young people a real hook to learn coding, even when it is hard and complicated
 * **cross-curricular projects** because a good computer games have a lots of different characters, and also a story, scenery, variables

5.2. Simple Games Design Tools

 * telling stories with power point -> select different options and the story is different
 * scratch JR

5.3. Games Design for Younger Children

 * Scratch - new version is completely web based - a little bit like a lego = you slot different blogs together in order to get your character to do things - lot of videos and examples what other people have done - starting to scratch and Itching fo more are resources for scratch using - www.royalsoced.org.uk
 * Kodu game lab - interactive classroom net
 * spark - for xbox and windows?
 * minecraft -

5.4. Advanced Games Design Tools

 * RPG maker
 * UDK = a free game engineer for using free - many features but looks quite complicated

5.1. Introduction to Games Design
