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Introduction
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ideo Game Design Composition provides students a comprehensive volume of
background knowledge and hands-on learning in every critical component of video
game design. Video game design is a very diverse field that can benefit from the unique
skills and experiences every individual has achieved. Each student can find where
his or her technology, creativity, and leadership skills fit best within a design team.
Students will benefit from the diversity of lessons presented.
Students will participate in a simulation of a real video game design team, seeing
each project from origination to fruition. This provides a valuable lesson in team
building that can be applied to any aspect of the technology and engineering industries
in real-life careers.
Video Game Design Composition presents content in 13 chapters, with each chapter
acting as a building block that supports the next skill learned. This allows students
to learn the objectives of each lesson, practice the corresponding skills, and lay the
foundation on which to acquire the next skill set.
Students will learn to design characters with personality and feeling. The
characters are brought to life through design elements that match physical abilities
and story elements. Within the story, characters will interact to build climax and
resolution. Students will interweave story elements and player interactions to create a
dynamic action to tell the story. Design is further refined to add strategy, puzzle, and
immersion elements. Everything comes together with student-created quality game art,
animations, and sound effects. Finally, students will develop skills in programming
game interactions, physics, and real-world simulations.
Students will develop soft skills needed for success in any area of personal
interaction and team building. These skills will develop seamlessly alongside of high-
end technology hard skills. All lessons are scaffolded to provide a gradual progression
and strengthening of skills. Each component escalates from beginner levels to mastery
in stages. In the end, students will be technologically proficient and will demonstrate
learning by constructing an original game build.
Studying Video Game Design Composition will expand student understanding of the
role technology plays in modern society and the future of high-quality jobs. Applying
the key lessons, skills, and content of this curriculum will provide great insight into a
growing technological society and provide a solid foundation demanded for success in
the future world of technology.