- February 26th, 2010
Digital Games Design Competition @ SLF10
- Brian Clark
- Comments: 5 Comments »Tags: cfe, Consolarium, cross-curricular, games design, SLF10
Fancy yourself as a Games Designer?
Do you think Sonic is super?
Do you marvel at Mario?
Are you crazy about Crash?
Love Lara?
Fancy yourself as a games designer? Now is your chance to design, create and market your own computer game with great characters and compelling storylines. Your game only has to meet two criteria for your chance to win some great prizes.
- It should be an adventure/platform/puzzle game with a story behind it.
- The player should be able to control a character and solve a puzzle or collect items to progress to the next level / complete the game.
If you are a pupil at a school in Scotland then you can enter your game in one of four categories:
- Primary Individual
- Primary Group
- Secondary Individual
- Secondary Group
Check out some examples and find out more by watching this video.
You can download the high quality mp4 here, or an iPod mp4 here.
When designing and creating your game, and think about
- characters and background that will be used in the game
- music and sound effects to be used in the game
- levels / progression through the game
Use any game creation tool to build your game. For example 2DIY, Scratch, Kodu, Game Maker, SimsCarnival, Greenfoot, Flash, Net Radiant, Unreal Development Kit, Microsoft XNA or any other appropriate platform
Send us the complete game in an email, or a link or on CD/DVD. Make sure you let us know what software you used.
Need some help to get started?
Consolarium Development Officers, Charlie Love and Brian Clark, are available to offer you some assistance. They can be contacted via email (c.love@ltscotland.org.uk and b.clark@LTScotland.org.uk ).
The Final
Successful finalists will be invited to attend the Scottish Learning Festival on the 22nd/23rd September to present their game to a panel of Game Developers and Industry Specialists. A number of great prizes will also be on offer including a tour of the studio at game developers, Denki.
The closing date for all entries is Friday 3rd September 2010
Categories Consolarium, Glow, SLF10, cross-curricular, games design
Our S2′s are just about to begin a ‘Dragon’s Den’ based project in Bus Ed, Computing, Tech and Music – this sounds like a great competition that some of our groups might like to take up as their project. Would it be possible for me to get the video embed link for their Glow group?
Alan
Would home-educated young people be allowed to enter this?
Yes.
I saw significant interest in this competition last year, however no game was produced. Is it likely that we’ll see another similar competition to aim for this year, or could you suggest anything elsewhere we could look in to entering? I have a group of motivated budding games designers in S3/S4 and no competition for them to drive at!
Tom,
Last year’s competition was a little different than the one that we have in place for SLF10. Submissions last year were for ideas for a game, this year we have been looking for actual games that have been built by pupils. It’s a real pity that your budding games designers missed the closing date for entries for this year’s competition. Maybe we’ll run this again next year. Out of interest what platform/s are your pupils using to build their games? Maybe you and they can begin to submit their work and experiences to the Games Design Glow group?