Video Game Design/Developers

Hey all!

I am sitting in yet another pre-school year PLT session, alone, having done everything my district wants from the next two days several years ago.

I figured I would reach out to you all, my actual PLT.

I am entering year 2 at my new school West Park High School in Roseville, CA. I finally get to teach my capstone course again this year which is kinda awesome.

Most of my focus presently is on revamping my pixel art portion of my Graphics class and figuring out what games I want my intro design course to play in the first few days of school before pivoting to making our own stuff.

I look forward to learning from all of you over this school year!

Brian Bautista

I like the idea of playing some games before designing. What have you used in the past?

I kind of like the idea of retro games like Frogger and Donkey Kong, Asteroid, etc. 

Hey all!

I am sitting in yet another pre-school year PLT session, alone, having done everything my district wants from the next two days several years ago.

I figured I would reach out to you all, my actual PLT.

I am entering year 2 at my new school West Park High School in Roseville, CA. I finally get to teach my capstone course again this year which is kinda awesome.

Most of my focus presently is on revamping my pixel art portion of my Graphics class and figuring out what games I want my intro design course to play in the first few days of school before pivoting to making our own stuff.

I look forward to learning from all of you over this school year!

Brian Bautista

I like the idea of playing some games before designing. What have you used in the past?

I kind of like the idea of retro games like Frogger and Donkey Kong, Asteroid, etc. 

Hey all!

I am sitting in yet another pre-school year PLT session, alone, having done everything my district wants from the next two days several years ago.

I figured I would reach out to you all, my actual PLT.

I am entering year 2 at my new school West Park High School in Roseville, CA. I finally get to teach my capstone course again this year which is kinda awesome.

Most of my focus presently is on revamping my pixel art portion of my Graphics class and figuring out what games I want my intro design course to play in the first few days of school before pivoting to making our own stuff.

I look forward to learning from all of you over this school year!

Brian Bautista

Hey all!

I am sitting in yet another pre-school year PLT session, alone, having done everything my district wants from the next two days several years ago.

I figured I would reach out to you all, my actual PLT.

I am entering year 2 at my new school West Park High School in Roseville, CA. I finally get to teach my capstone course again this year which is kinda awesome.

Most of my focus presently is on revamping my pixel art portion of my Graphics class and figuring out what games I want my intro design course to play in the first few days of school before pivoting to making our own stuff.

I look forward to learning from all of you over this school year!

Brian Bautista

Brian,

I would love to hear what you have come up with for your pixel art revamp.

One thing I do is have students play games from former students so they get an idea of what is possible in the span of time for the course.

As for published games, I enjoy having students prepare and share their favorite game (I usually model it by going first), one per day.

Jerry

Hey all!

I am sitting in yet another pre-school year PLT session, alone, having done everything my district wants from the next two days several years ago.

I figured I would reach out to you all, my actual PLT.

I am entering year 2 at my new school West Park High School in Roseville, CA. I finally get to teach my capstone course again this year which is kinda awesome.

Most of my focus presently is on revamping my pixel art portion of my Graphics class and figuring out what games I want my intro design course to play in the first few days of school before pivoting to making our own stuff.

I look forward to learning from all of you over this school year!

Brian Bautista

Hey all!

I am sitting in yet another pre-school year PLT session, alone, having done everything my district wants from the next two days several years ago.

I figured I would reach out to you all, my actual PLT.

I am entering year 2 at my new school West Park High School in Roseville, CA. I finally get to teach my capstone course again this year which is kinda awesome.

Most of my focus presently is on revamping my pixel art portion of my Graphics class and figuring out what games I want my intro design course to play in the first few days of school before pivoting to making our own stuff.

I look forward to learning from all of you over this school year!

Brian Bautista

Hey all!

I am sitting in yet another pre-school year PLT session, alone, having done everything my district wants from the next two days several years ago.

I figured I would reach out to you all, my actual PLT.

I am entering year 2 at my new school West Park High School in Roseville, CA. I finally get to teach my capstone course again this year which is kinda awesome.

Most of my focus presently is on revamping my pixel art portion of my Graphics class and figuring out what games I want my intro design course to play in the first few days of school before pivoting to making our own stuff.

I look forward to learning from all of you over this school year!

Brian Bautista

I'd love to hear what you decide, especially for pixel art. I am installing LibrePixel on my lab machines, it's the free and open source version of Aseprite. Aseprite is awesome and I use it at home, but they don't take PO's so I can't order with my CTE budget.

I plan to do the Septembit challenge for pixel art. A person on Twitter named Saultoons runs it. Each day, spend 10 minutes, doing a small pixel art challenge, 16 x 16 square. Over time you add each drawing to a monthly sheet and you see your progress. I did it myself over the summer and think this will be a hit in my Game Design courses. 

Saultoons https://twitter.com/Saultoons

Septembit https://twitter.com/septembit?lang=en

There is a black and white one from a couple of years ago that is a good starting point for me.

You can also join his Discord and see each year's submissions as well as the submissions for the daily challenges if you want. I want to get my kids submitting to stuff like this to get us up and out of our classrooms for inspiration.

What other tools do people use for pixel art?

Hey all!

I am sitting in yet another pre-school year PLT session, alone, having done everything my district wants from the next two days several years ago.

I figured I would reach out to you all, my actual PLT.

I am entering year 2 at my new school West Park High School in Roseville, CA. I finally get to teach my capstone course again this year which is kinda awesome.

Most of my focus presently is on revamping my pixel art portion of my Graphics class and figuring out what games I want my intro design course to play in the first few days of school before pivoting to making our own stuff.

I look forward to learning from all of you over this school year!

Brian Bautista