Game Design – Week 8 – Logic, Flowcharts, and Coding

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When asked the most important thing I should teach my students, the MIT student I was interviewing simply stated , ‘ teach them logic.’ – Mr. Le Duc

SUMMARY

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• This week was not all that good because of my emotions getting the better of me. tho I was able to get them under control Thursday was by far my worst day this week.

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 15 minutes in this ‘room’ on either ONE of the scripting languages below, Javascript or C#  (NOT BOTH)

PlayCanvas

• https://www.sololearn.com/Course/JavaScript/
• Write the latest lesson you have completed today

Unity

• https://www.sololearn.com/Course/CSharp/

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

Mr. Le Duc’s Flowchart Shape Guide

More Flowchart Creation Resources

• http://capitalcomtech.info/2017/02/28/design-elements-flowchart/
• Design Elements Flowcharts (PDF)

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

• i was not able to do this

OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 35 minutes,
  • 20 minutes watching Elizabeth Gilbert
  • 15 minutes walking

• Something I found interesting was the leaf patterns

STUDIO (GAME DESIGN)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 60 minutes in this ‘room’ on either ONE of the game engines below, (NOT BOTH)

PlayCanvas

Unity

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

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• Some problems I fixed were finding ways to handle my emotions

WEEKLY ACTIVITY EVALUATION

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