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RE: ON TIME WEDNESDAY DISCUSSION - Curriculum and ideas (share one, get one)

Posted By Brian Bautista 05-15-2024 13:33
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The basics are that the professor used a series of "cover games" as projects for teaching a game engine. He had a few examples like PacMan, Mario, Mario Kart and a few others that laid different concepts and learning targets onto each other. The idea being that similar to a guitar player learning ...

FInals show off thread

Posted By Brian Bautista 05-15-2024 11:04
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Hey all! It has been a great school year. I am incredibly thankful for the help from all of you and look forward to picking up once the next school year begins. I won't be posting nearly as much over the summer and I am in the process of winding down the school year over the next few weeks. As we ...

RE: Late Wednesday Discussion - Next year purchases

Posted By Brian Bautista 05-14-2024 12:49
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Awesome! I ran my program off of old math laptops for a while and I upgraded to something way worse than a 4060, even then it was like adding a turbocharger to my capstone students. You will be amazed how much time gets eaten up by rendering/baking/compiling that you will get freed up. --------- ...

Late Wednesday Discussion - Next year purchases

Posted By Brian Bautista 05-09-2024 12:52
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What new stuff are you upgrading to/spending money on next year? I have all of my big hardware situated, My laptops are 2 years old and I got some VR headsets and a rendering desktop this year. Not really looking for a hardware refresh for at least 4 or 5 years. The only real new expense for me ...

RE: Late Wednesday Discussion - Looking forward

Posted By Brian Bautista 05-02-2024 16:58
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Congrats! ------------------------------ Brian Bautista k12teacher Citrus Heights CA ------------------------------

Late Wednesday Discussion - Looking forward

Posted By Brian Bautista 05-02-2024 13:12
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Any big changes, revisions or additions to your program next year. I have 60 kids signed up for my graphics class next year so I will have two sections for the first time ever. ------------------------------ Brian Bautista k12teacher Citrus Heights CA ------------------------------

RE: ON TIME WEDNESDAY DISCUSSION - Curriculum and ideas (share one, get one)

Posted By Brian Bautista 04-29-2024 13:21
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Loved that talk, something I kinda want to kick around. -- The Roseville Joint Union High School District prohibits discrimination, intimidation, harassment (including sexual harassment) and bullying based on a person's actual or perceived ancestry, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender ...

RE: ON TIME WEDNESDAY DISCUSSION - Curriculum and ideas (share one, get one)

Posted By Brian Bautista 04-25-2024 13:35
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I love this. Is this something they do in teams or solo? ------------------------------ Brian Bautista k12teacher Citrus Heights CA ------------------------------

ON TIME WEDNESDAY DISCUSSION - Curriculum and ideas (share one, get one)

Posted By Brian Bautista 04-24-2024 10:08
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We tried this a while ago, but it didn't get a lot of traction, Mel pitched it as an idea, so let's try it again. Post a cool assignment idea. Something that hopefully other people could adapt to their needs. Right now we are working on our Narrative Design Project, so it is the one time in ...

k12 Game Dev

Posted By Brian Bautista 04-22-2024 16:03
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RE: Late Wednesday Discussion - Conferences

Posted By Brian Bautista 04-22-2024 15:16
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Also have you reached out to SFCOE? I would be stunned if you were the only Game Dev teacher in San Francisco. ------------------------------ Brian Bautista k12teacher Citrus Heights CA ------------------------------

RE: Late Wednesday Discussion - Conferences

Posted By Brian Bautista 04-22-2024 14:36
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GDC is definitely in San Francisco for at least one more year, after that I am not nearly connected enough to know, assuming they know. I have been lobbying pretty hard for a while now to get a k12 anything on the program, I am a little hopeful that I might have found a path into GDC proper. I will ...

RE: Late Wednesday Discussion - Conferences

Posted By Brian Bautista 04-22-2024 14:17
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I think that is pretty doable. We would need to set it up a little a head of time but that could be a fun end of semester thing. ------------------------------ Brian Bautista k12teacher Citrus Heights CA ------------------------------

RE: Late Wednesday Discussion - Conferences

Posted By Brian Bautista 04-22-2024 12:31
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Game Jam for teachers or for students? ------------------------------ Brian Bautista k12teacher Citrus Heights CA ------------------------------

RE: Late Wednesday Discussion - Conferences

Posted By Brian Bautista 04-22-2024 12:30
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Again, working in hypotheticals. Would you prefer someone from Unity/Unreal/Godot whatever doing it or a high school teacher? Would you even care? ------------------------------ Brian Bautista k12teacher Citrus Heights CA ------------------------------

RE: Late Wednesday Discussion - Conferences

Posted By Brian Bautista 04-19-2024 12:15
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Hopefully GDC organizing committee sees it that way. I have been lobbying them pretty hard for a while now. There is the Games Education Summit, which is great, but it is post-secondary focused. Hopefully we can get some movement on that. ------------------------------ Brian Bautista k12teacher Citrus ...

Late Wednesday Discussion - Conferences

Posted By Brian Bautista 04-18-2024 12:55
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Hypothetically, If there was a Game Dev Teaching Conference specifically for k12, what would YOU want out of it? ------------------------------ Brian Bautista k12teacher Citrus Heights CA ------------------------------

RE: Wednesday: Discussion Finals

Posted By Brian Bautista 04-15-2024 13:28
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AWESOME! ------------------------------ Brian Bautista k12teacher Citrus Heights CA ------------------------------

RE: Video Game Development Course

Posted By Brian Bautista 04-14-2024 17:31
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Generally states have a specific credential designation for Game Dev usually within Career Technical Education or CompSci. To my knowledge we are at 43 states that either explicitly call out game dev or imply out within another set of standards. (I did some research as part of my pitch to GDC to get ...

RE: Video Game Development Course

Posted By Brian Bautista 04-14-2024 17:29
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Even if Unity and C# aren't explicitly named, there is a pretty good chance you can still use it for just about any computer science standards. I have used the unity course "Create with Code" as my intro into Unity/Programming for a while now. It has a parallel teachers course that goes with it and ...