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

“Binary code” by Christiaan Colen is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

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

• this was fun and i enjoyed this assignment

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/
• I completed the overview and can now execute write, console, and alert commands as well as write comments

Unity

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

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

• flow charts are easy to understand
• bubbles with one round side and one flat side mean to wait
• an oval represents the start of the flow chart
• the “terminator” shape represents the end of the chart
• the square with round edges is a process
• the diamond shape is a decision
• the rectangle with the wavy line is a document

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)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 15 minutes in this ‘room’
• Watch Mr. Le Duc’s How to Save Your Draw.io File to Your Google Drive Tutorial
• Try to create your own game flow for one of your game ideas
• Use Draw.io and save in your Google Drive
  • We will share these in class, soon
• https://app.diagrams.net/#G1EHEYVqkZ9MoHUSLidFlt64JCMbFIJ1x1
• sometimes its hard to decide what type of bubble to use.

OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)

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

• Watch Elizabeth Gilbert discuss creativity and genius
• Go for a walk outside and think about what she said, if you can safely
• Write anything you found interesting and useful in your reflection
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

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

• Start Daniel Wood’s, PlayCanvas Tutorial 1 – Getting started with PlayCanvas
• For extra support, explore PlayCanvas Tutorials: https://developer.playcanvas.com/en/tutorials/
• Work for no more than 60 minutes\

Unity

• Start the Unity tutorials
  • https://learn.unity.com/course/beginner-design-unity-game-development-course
• Work for no more than 60 minutes
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

• playcanvas confused me.