Michigan State University via Coursera
If you love games and want to learn how to make them, then this course is your second step down that path. In this course you will learn the fundamentals of game design, including an understanding of the game world, storytelling, gameplay, user experience, and game technology. You will continue developing videogames using industry standard game development tools, including the Unity game engine. At the end of the course you will have completed a 2D Platformer game, and will be able to leverage an array of game development techniques to create your own basic games.
Are you ready to take the next step in your journey into game design and development? In this module, we will introduce the theory and practice of this course. From a theoretical perspective, we will be using the Design, Play, Experience Framework across this course as a vehicle to discuss game des…
In this module, we will explore two important parts of the design, the game world and storytelling. The game world, simply put, is the world where the game takes place. At its simplest level, it is defined by space and time. But we will explore the game world across the physical, temporal, environm…
In this module, we will explore the next two layers of the Design, Play, Experience Framework, including gameplay and user experience. The gameplay layer defines what the player does in the game. That is, what choices the player can make in the game world and what ramifications those choices will h…
Everything in the Design, Play, Experience Framework is “grounded” on the technology that you are building the game upon. Overall, the capabilities and limitations of the technology and the resources required to implement the technology may greatly influence the design and should be considered thro…
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Michigan State University is in Tier 3: good universities, respected companies, nonprofits and well-known teachers of our institution ranking (74/100).
This is CS50W, CS50's Web Programming with Python and JavaScript. Register for free at https://cs50.edx.org/web. Slides and source code at https://cs50.harvard.edu/web. This course picks up where Harvard University’s CS50 leaves off, diving more deeply into the design and implementation of web apps…
Learning objectives This course picks up where Harvard University's CS50 leaves off, diving more deeply into the design and implementation of web apps with Python, JavaScript, and SQL using frameworks like Flask, Django, and Bootstrap. Topics include database design, scalability, security, and user…
Harvard University · edX
An introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.
Learning objectives This course picks up where Harvard University's CS50 leaves off, transitioning from web development to mobile app development with React Native, a popular open-source framework maintained by Facebook that enables cross-platform native apps using JavaScript without Java or Swift.…
Harvard University · edX
An introduction to programming using Python, a popular language for general-purpose programming, data science, web programming, and more.
Harvard University · edX
This course picks up where CS50 leaves off, diving more deeply into the design and implementation of web apps with Python, JavaScript, and SQL using frameworks like Django, React, and Bootstrap.
