Video Game Design Learning Resources from Mako Create

Welcome to Mako Create‘s Video Game Design learning resources, brought to you as part of the Bubble Up project from Curious Minds.

Here you’ll be able to find instructional videos, lesson plans and resources to help you and your learners to create their own retro-style video games. Students will learn coding principles, developing and challenging their skills in IT, maths, problem-solving, graphic design and more.

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In these video tutorials we will show you how to create a: –

  1. Retro Maze Video Game
  2. Retro Avoidance Game
  3. Retro “Galaga” style Game

Revise each video to deliver it yourself and/or get your students to follow along with the video to design their own retro Video Games. Remember you can pause any video if you need more time or rewind to recap on bits you’ve missed.

Episode 1: Coding Retro Avoid Games

In this video, Mako Create will be helping you to create an avoidance game, where you will control your hero to avoid being caught by an enemy. During this video, Mako Create will be explaining how to use block-based coding to create our game. Mako Create will also be showing you how to design and create our very own computer game characters.

In this video Mako Create will show you: –

  • MakeCode Arcade (Block-Based Coding)
  • Character Design (Pixel Art)
  • Enemy Design
  • Using Overlaps

Follow along with the video to make your own Video Game. Remember you can pause the video if you need more time or rewind to recap on bits you’ve missed.

Episode 2: Coding Retro Maze Games

 

In this video, Mako Create will be helping you to design and create a Maze game, where you will control your hero to escape a maze. During this video, Mako Create will be explaining how to use block-based coding to create our game.

In this video, Mako Create will show you: –

  • MakeCode Arcade (Block-Based Coding)
  • Character Design (Pixel Art)
  • Designing and Creating Mazes
  • How to Teleport
  • Story Telling

Follow along with the video to make your own Video Game. Remember you can pause the video if you need more time or rewind to recap on bits you’ve missed.

Episode 3: Retro Galaga Style Games

 

During this video, Mako Create will be helping you design and create a Galaga style flying game. In this game, you will control your Plane/spaceship around the screen trying to avoid touching enemy planes, while shooting projectiles to destroy planes to earn points.

  • In this video Mako Create will show you:
  • MakeCode Arcade (Block-Based Coding)
  • Character Design (Pixel Art)
  • Making Enemies – Creating Projectiles
  • Overlaps

Follow along with the video to make your own Video Game. Remember you can pause the video if you need more time or rewind to recap on bits you’ve missed.

We hope you enjoy these resources and that your learners find them fun and engaging.

We’d love to see what you make. If you or your learners create and share your games online, please be sure to share them with us on our social networks

 

Mako Create would like to say a massive thank you to Curious Minds for allowing us to take part in their Bubble Up project. 

 

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