Game Making

The computer/video games industry is nearly as profitable and popular as the film industry. Computer game making can help build students’ story telling skills. It helps encourage cooperative learning and engages students in problem solving and higher order thinking. It can be a multi-disciplinary exercise – developing a good game can involve composing music, script writing, story development, physics, visual arts, spatial arts and more.

As the game design process involves students drawing on their multiple intelligences, it often provides students who are typically not good at school with a chance to see themselves as capable members of the classroom learning community.

Possible Curriculum Links

Subject

 English

Mathematics

Science

Visual Arts

Strand/S

Developing cognitive abilities through language

Algebra

Forces

Print

Strand Unit/S

Sketch an ordered summary of ideas and draft a writing assignment based on it

Identify positive and negative numbers

Come to appreciate that gravity is a force

Use a computer art program to  create original images that are not dependent on clip art