Video Game Design/Developers

Hey guys, 

I think most of us are not back on following the break.

What are your goals for your pathway this spring semester?

I have 2 big ones.

1. I want at least 3 student groups to present their work at a local game show this spring.
2. I want to change up and update my intro (tabletop design) course. I have been working and refining it for a while now, but I think it needs updating in terms of the types of assignments they are working on.

Hope the break was good to you and look forward to collaborating over the rest of the year.

I am going to GDC this year if any of you are, hope to meet up and talk shop.

Hey guys, 

I think most of us are not back on following the break.

What are your goals for your pathway this spring semester?

I have 2 big ones.

1. I want at least 3 student groups to present their work at a local game show this spring.
2. I want to change up and update my intro (tabletop design) course. I have been working and refining it for a while now, but I think it needs updating in terms of the types of assignments they are working on.

Hope the break was good to you and look forward to collaborating over the rest of the year.

I am going to GDC this year if any of you are, hope to meet up and talk shop.

Goals...not sure where I am with goals, I am really feeling the sink or swim right now.

(I teach 5 different subjects this year, an honors society, esports teams, and train the staff on the new adoption of grade and attendance portal. AND first day back there was no internet or phones) 

Game Design 1 is focusing on learning drawing tablets (setup and put away) and getting into storyboarding and character creation. I am interested in what everyone does for character creation lessons. My tablets are Huion Kamvas Pro 16, lucky me I have a class set 1:1.

Game Design 2 is refining their game's direction for this semester. Lots of tweaks, and version updates coming soon. I have given direction for this semester to move past the drawing phase and start implementation of their ideas. Redefine team member's roles, and create a redundancy system for when someone is absent. 

Hey guys, 

I think most of us are not back on following the break.

What are your goals for your pathway this spring semester?

I have 2 big ones.

1. I want at least 3 student groups to present their work at a local game show this spring.
2. I want to change up and update my intro (tabletop design) course. I have been working and refining it for a while now, but I think it needs updating in terms of the types of assignments they are working on.

Hope the break was good to you and look forward to collaborating over the rest of the year.

I am going to GDC this year if any of you are, hope to meet up and talk shop.

What are you looking for in terms of Character stuff? 2D? 3D? narrative design?

Goals...not sure where I am with goals, I am really feeling the sink or swim right now.

(I teach 5 different subjects this year, an honors society, esports teams, and train the staff on the new adoption of grade and attendance portal. AND first day back there was no internet or phones) 

Game Design 1 is focusing on learning drawing tablets (setup and put away) and getting into storyboarding and character creation. I am interested in what everyone does for character creation lessons. My tablets are Huion Kamvas Pro 16, lucky me I have a class set 1:1.

Game Design 2 is refining their game's direction for this semester. Lots of tweaks, and version updates coming soon. I have given direction for this semester to move past the drawing phase and start implementation of their ideas. Redefine team member's roles, and create a redundancy system for when someone is absent. 

Hey guys, 

I think most of us are not back on following the break.

What are your goals for your pathway this spring semester?

I have 2 big ones.

1. I want at least 3 student groups to present their work at a local game show this spring.
2. I want to change up and update my intro (tabletop design) course. I have been working and refining it for a while now, but I think it needs updating in terms of the types of assignments they are working on.

Hope the break was good to you and look forward to collaborating over the rest of the year.

I am going to GDC this year if any of you are, hope to meet up and talk shop.

Hey guys, 

I think most of us are not back on following the break.

What are your goals for your pathway this spring semester?

I have 2 big ones.

1. I want at least 3 student groups to present their work at a local game show this spring.
2. I want to change up and update my intro (tabletop design) course. I have been working and refining it for a while now, but I think it needs updating in terms of the types of assignments they are working on.

Hope the break was good to you and look forward to collaborating over the rest of the year.

I am going to GDC this year if any of you are, hope to meet up and talk shop.

Hey guys, 

I think most of us are not back on following the break.

What are your goals for your pathway this spring semester?

I have 2 big ones.

1. I want at least 3 student groups to present their work at a local game show this spring.
2. I want to change up and update my intro (tabletop design) course. I have been working and refining it for a while now, but I think it needs updating in terms of the types of assignments they are working on.

Hope the break was good to you and look forward to collaborating over the rest of the year.

I am going to GDC this year if any of you are, hope to meet up and talk shop.

I have two main goals for this semester:

1. Get my intro board game class switched from a G elective to a F fine art in the UCOP system.
2. I have been doing a lot with SkillsUSA this year and want to make my chapter a Level 2 Chapter of Excellence so we have momentum going into next school year.

Hey guys, 

I think most of us are not back on following the break.

What are your goals for your pathway this spring semester?

I have 2 big ones.

1. I want at least 3 student groups to present their work at a local game show this spring.
2. I want to change up and update my intro (tabletop design) course. I have been working and refining it for a while now, but I think it needs updating in terms of the types of assignments they are working on.

Hope the break was good to you and look forward to collaborating over the rest of the year.

I am going to GDC this year if any of you are, hope to meet up and talk shop.

How have the competitions been going for GameDev with SkillsUSA?

I have two main goals for this semester:

1. Get my intro board game class switched from a G elective to a F fine art in the UCOP system.
2. I have been doing a lot with SkillsUSA this year and want to make my chapter a Level 2 Chapter of Excellence so we have momentum going into next school year.

Hey guys, 

I think most of us are not back on following the break.

What are your goals for your pathway this spring semester?

I have 2 big ones.

1. I want at least 3 student groups to present their work at a local game show this spring.
2. I want to change up and update my intro (tabletop design) course. I have been working and refining it for a while now, but I think it needs updating in terms of the types of assignments they are working on.

Hope the break was good to you and look forward to collaborating over the rest of the year.

I am going to GDC this year if any of you are, hope to meet up and talk shop.

Hey guys, 

I think most of us are not back on following the break.

What are your goals for your pathway this spring semester?

I have 2 big ones.

1. I want at least 3 student groups to present their work at a local game show this spring.
2. I want to change up and update my intro (tabletop design) course. I have been working and refining it for a while now, but I think it needs updating in terms of the types of assignments they are working on.

Hope the break was good to you and look forward to collaborating over the rest of the year.

I am going to GDC this year if any of you are, hope to meet up and talk shop.

Hey Everyone,

It's been awhile for me in here, but I really mean to come back each week.

One main goal for me is to move my students over from Github Desktop to the command line. I'm happy using git in the command line, but Github has it's own CLI application that is simplified so using gh in the CLI will work better. Everything is faster and you can authenticate right in the command line.

Another goal for me is to have a few students at the W4 Games booth showcasing their work in Godot at GDC this year. I will bring all my students to the Friday careers day, but W4 Games is open to students at their booth. I just have to check back in with them.

Another goal, and we're on track for it, is to have my seniors present their Capstone projects at the Disney Family Museum. They have a little theater downstairs and our date is May 21st. Disney is sending one of their artists who teaches classes at the museum to my classroom 8 times this spring to lead workshops like character design, world building, etc.

I'm trying to arrange my 2 courses differently and I've got some admin ears as well. I would like course 1 to be AP Computer Science. There is a CSP course based on MS Make Code Arcade so I'm hoping that can be year 1 and Game Design will be year 2. https://makecode.com/csp

I'd probably use Python, I think I saw you could do that since it's so similar to Godot's GDScript that we'd use in senior year. I find my weakest students have no programming experience and if we don't hit programming hard, they never finish ANY game projects, they just get stuck and lost in programming. District level folks like the idea, and we don't have ANY CS courses at my school right now, so it's a huge equity gap, that we'd love to fill in.

That's about it for now.

Hey guys, 

I think most of us are not back on following the break.

What are your goals for your pathway this spring semester?

I have 2 big ones.

1. I want at least 3 student groups to present their work at a local game show this spring.
2. I want to change up and update my intro (tabletop design) course. I have been working and refining it for a while now, but I think it needs updating in terms of the types of assignments they are working on.

Hope the break was good to you and look forward to collaborating over the rest of the year.

I am going to GDC this year if any of you are, hope to meet up and talk shop.

Do you have any Godot resources you can share? I want to take a look.

Hey Everyone,

It's been awhile for me in here, but I really mean to come back each week.

One main goal for me is to move my students over from Github Desktop to the command line. I'm happy using git in the command line, but Github has it's own CLI application that is simplified so using gh in the CLI will work better. Everything is faster and you can authenticate right in the command line.

Another goal for me is to have a few students at the W4 Games booth showcasing their work in Godot at GDC this year. I will bring all my students to the Friday careers day, but W4 Games is open to students at their booth. I just have to check back in with them.

Another goal, and we're on track for it, is to have my seniors present their Capstone projects at the Disney Family Museum. They have a little theater downstairs and our date is May 21st. Disney is sending one of their artists who teaches classes at the museum to my classroom 8 times this spring to lead workshops like character design, world building, etc.

I'm trying to arrange my 2 courses differently and I've got some admin ears as well. I would like course 1 to be AP Computer Science. There is a CSP course based on MS Make Code Arcade so I'm hoping that can be year 1 and Game Design will be year 2. https://makecode.com/csp

I'd probably use Python, I think I saw you could do that since it's so similar to Godot's GDScript that we'd use in senior year. I find my weakest students have no programming experience and if we don't hit programming hard, they never finish ANY game projects, they just get stuck and lost in programming. District level folks like the idea, and we don't have ANY CS courses at my school right now, so it's a huge equity gap, that we'd love to fill in.

That's about it for now.

Hey guys, 

I think most of us are not back on following the break.

What are your goals for your pathway this spring semester?

I have 2 big ones.

1. I want at least 3 student groups to present their work at a local game show this spring.
2. I want to change up and update my intro (tabletop design) course. I have been working and refining it for a while now, but I think it needs updating in terms of the types of assignments they are working on.

Hope the break was good to you and look forward to collaborating over the rest of the year.

I am going to GDC this year if any of you are, hope to meet up and talk shop.