Game Design & Development
30 March 2021 | 5 - 7pm (+8 GMT)
Course Synopsis
This course will use Scratch 3.0 which is provided by MIT. Scratch is a game development tool that is targeted for nonprogrammers but also can be used as an educational tool to learn coding. This course provides a bit of background in game design, and then goes through the processes required in game development. The different uses of games in everyday life such as entertainment, education, therapy, training and others will be presented and discussed. Participants will then be introduced to Scratch and its features, blocks, environment and available projects available or reference. This course will provide a hands-on, step by step guided instruction in developing a complete game. At the end of the course, participants will be able to design and develop a simple game that is unique to them based on the guidelines given during the course. Scratch is the perfect introduction to coding for non-programmers and is powerful enough to provide a platform for game design and development for those who want to have a hand at creating theirown games.
The Expert
Dr. Mas Idayu Md Sabri
Dr. Mas Idayu Md Sabri is a Multimedia Lecturer at Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Malaya. Her research interest is on game development and educational game design. She is a certified "Computational Thinking in Computer Science (CTCS) Master Trainer" under MDEC #myDigitalMaker Continuous Professional Development Center (UM) where, along with other trainers like herself, she is responsible to educate and prepare teachers for the school subject 'Asas Sains Komputer' (Computer Science Fundamental) nationwide. She has also facilitated several Scratch Workshops for participants from various age groups under the Faculty's project initiative (Community Service Responsibility, Holiday School Program, Mobility Program). She is passionate about game design and development and the potential games have in evolving the learning instruction and adapting to the digital natives' skill set and interest.