Video Game Design/Developers

Hello all,
I just joined and wanted to say hello to all.
I teach video game design at Gulf High School in New Port Richey Florida since 2014.
We started out use Multi-Media Fusion  2
The past 2 years we have been using Unity

Hey Niel!

Would love to get a look at some of your curriculum stuff. What are you using for Unity?

Hi, all! Excited to find other game design teachers.

I teach grades 10-12 at one of two high schools in a small city in north Alabama. I'm the only game design instructor I know of in the area at the high school level. 

I am an art teacher. My programming experience is a bit of BASIC in the 80's, a bit of Fortran & Pascal in the late 80's - early 90's, and just enough C# and Python to get by in the classes I teach (very little). Game design is classified as Media Arts and is in the art department at my school.

I designed and built my curriculum after some students created video games as their final project in an animation course I taught many years ago. Now all of my classes are game design, except for two esports classes (I coach the esports teams for our school).

I am constantly changing and rearranging my curriculum in an attempt to improve it (and also to make my life easier). My level 1 kids use Piskel to make sprites, Soundtrap or GarageBand to make music, JFXR to make sound effects, Gimp to make backgrounds / title screens, and GameMaker Studio to make a maze game. We also make tabletop games, Minecraft games, and do a history of game design unit. When we were virtual, they also did a choose your own adventure type game in Google Slides. My advanced kids use Unity, Blockbench, Minecraft and other programs. They do a virtual game design history museum in Minecraft. Currently they are working on personal projects - some doing art, some doing 3D models, some doing tabletop games, and some doing complete games in Unity.

I would love to share resources with anyone teaching this grade level!