Curriculum 2023

Follow along with slides for today or go back and look at the materials from a previous day.

The workshop facilitation guide was key to guiding curriculum delivery each day. Between workshops 1 and 2 in Summer 3, we revised the facilitation guide to make it more accessible, so these are the guidelines from Workshop 2 in Year 3.

The student-facing website for the 2023 workshops is available here.

Day 1: Wednesday, July 5

Introductions & roles, group promises, tech support, self-advocacy, & games

Day 1

Day 2: Thursday, July 6

Rules of games, modding games, Engineering Design Process, roles, & Bitsy

Day 2

Day 3: Friday, July 7

Game design terms, play & change, emotion regulation, feedback, play & give feedback, self-advocacy check-in (workshop feedback)

Day 3

Day 4: Monday, July 10

Creative process framework, game modding, intro game design, play & discuss game, how games tell stories

Day 4

Day 5: Tuesday, July 11

Game programming, Human Resource Machine, game art (designing characters & animations)

Day 5

Day 6: Wednesday, July 12

Troubleshooting, game idea generation, game production, guest speaker (Droqen: Small Games), time management

Day 6

Day 7: Thursday, July 13

Studio time, guest speaker (Carolyn Jong: Standing up for Vulnerable people), self-advocacy check-in (workshop ratings)

Day 7

Day 8: Friday, July 14

Roles, guest speaker (Marie Flanagan: Playtest), how to playtest, playtest questions, prototype playtest, self-advocacy check-in

Day 8

Day 9: Monday, July 17

Job readiness, "door problem": game industry jobs, experiences game industry, play game & discuss, challenges game making, time management, game-making (stand-up practices, scope & time management)

Day 9

Day 10: Tuesday, July 18

Game design (flow mapping), flow discussion, playtest preparation, game making and playtesting with guests (Eric Zimmerman & Geneva Heyward)

Day 10

Day 11: Wednesday, July 19

Job interests & workplace dynamics, guest speaker (Branwyth Tylwyth), Bitsy game-making time

Day 11

Day 12: Thursday, July 20

Intro feature-freeze/code-freeze, game-making time

Day 12

Day 13: Friday, July 21

Game debugging help, goodbyes, game showcase celebration

Day 13

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