Category: Exhibit Design

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Camp will be 4 weeks long starting between June 1st and July 31st. We will have a week off in between each class to prepare for the next week.

Each day will be split into two blocks, one being taught by Victoria and one being taught by Bresdin. The girls will spend half of their day in one block and the second half in the other. This will also provide a way for new girls to be caught up on past objectives they missed in previous weeks with the other girls can advance.

Each girl will create a website / blog on the first day that will continue to be updated by them as the weeks go on. They will be virtual scrapbooks. During this time we will teach them internet safety and guidelines. Will need email signature forms for this

Objective:

To teach the girls how to work together as a team to complete a complex large goal such a creating a video game.

• Storyboarding
• Audio Mixing
• Graphic Design
• Website / Blogging
• Internet Safety
• Creating a board game
• 3D printing
• 3D modeling
• Story Writing / Character creation
• Scratch Programming
• Processing (Java Programming)
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Unity Development
• (App Development?)
• Game Jam

Week 1:

Objectives:

Learning various computer skills and art techniques that will help them in the coming weeks.

1. (Graphic Design) Learning to clean up their drawings and photos on the computer.
   • Photoshop and Illustrator
     • This will be used later on when creating a board game and video game.
     • Using photoshop and illustrator to learn how to storyboard a story or scene.
     • Use to enhance their website
   • Drawing or painting
     • Learn how to storyboard a story or scene.
   • Typography and Color choices?
2. Internet Safety and Culture
   • Safe Passwords
   • Malicious downloads
   • Internet predators and how to avoid this
   • Using search engines
   • ECT….
3. Audio Mixing
   • Very important skill to use when creating a video game
   • Garageband
   • Little Bits
   • Sound recording
   • Will use in the following weeks many times
4. Website building
   • Wix or wordpress
   • Blog format created by them personally
   • Will use skills each day to update and enhance website
   • Will be used to take notes and or publish the video game to later

Possible Guest Speakers:

Analisa or Jenna (Need to talk to Mariam)

Week 2:

Objectives:

Learning the elements to a game – Creating a board game individually and as a team.

1. Playing and learning about different board games

• This will help them learn the elements to games to create a video game on week 4

• Defining what is a rule
• creating characters
• using cards
• using pieces
• Types of games – strategy, cards, chance ect
• Themes
• Writing and Storytelling
  • This will help when needing to come up with a video games storyline (If they choose to) Individually writing as well as group writing.
  • How to create characters / Creating heroes and heroines
  • Writing a plot line
  • Creating a theme
  • creating an experience
• 3D Modeling
  • Will design 3D pieces for the board game
  • Tinkercad
  • Blender
• 3D Printing
  • Will print pieces for the board game

Possible Guests

Jared Tarbel could lazer cut their board game design?

Chris McKillip sp-ent.com Makes and published aboard game. Local Video media company

Week 3:

Objective:

Teach programming and game development

1. Scratch
   • Teach low level game design
2. Processing
   • Teach low level programming
3. Unity
   • Combine Scratch and processing
4. 3D modeling and using in unity
   • Using their skills from previous weeks
5. Turn board game into a video game
   • Turn previous weeks board game into video game to show how it is the same process
6. Storyboarding
   • Continue to write and storyboard their games
7. Testing and bug fixing
   • Learning how to make the game fun and get rid of pesky bugs in the game

Possible Guests:

Sean McCracken (If available – or might have him there next week)

Week 4:

Objective: Girl Scout Game Jam in Unity

Have the girls create a video game in one week as a team using communication and all previous skills picked up.

1. All girls will work together to get different elements finished
   1. 3D modelers, writers, storyboarding, programming
2. Come up with theme
3. Create environments
4. Create Characters

The following is the list I move through to introduce a workshop to Unity 3D:

Create a New Scene

>New Project

Give Name

Choose Desktop

3D is chosen

>Create Project

Objects

Hierarchy > Look at Main Camera, Directional Light

GameObject > 3 > Cube

Delete the light!!!

CTL + Z to get it back

GameObject > Light > Directional Light

Controls

Scroll Wheel – zoom in and out

Click and hold the scroll wheel – Grab scene left to right

Hold Right btn – Look Left to right

click CUBE to focus on cube

Click four directions btn > move cube

Click Turn button > rotate cube

Click Size btn > Change size

Click Morph btn > Change obj

click Hand to not do anything

Delete the cube

Add Terrain

GameObject > 3D Object > Terrain

Mesh to sculpt for terrain

Look in Assets

Moving about the scene

Scroll Wheel – zoom in and out

Click and hold the scroll wheel – Grab scene left to right

> Play

Move Camera

Create Controller

Look on desktop

Drag folder that says standard assets into unity

Wait

OR

Window > Asset Store > Unity Essentials > Asset Packs > Standard Assets > Download > Import(after download)

In unity:

Click Standard Assets > Characters > FirstPersoncontroller>Prefab

(a prefabricated Object.)

Drag onto scene

Unclick Main Camera

Play

OR

Assets> standard assets > characters > ThirdPersoncontroller > Prefabs

Take main camera and drag until you make it a part of the person.

Move the camera so that it looks at the person

Inspector

This will provide the tools to sculpt the terrain

Click on Terrain

Raise Terrain

choose brush and size and go

Lower Terrain

Hold shift and click

Smooth Height

smooth the terrain

Paint Textures

Edit Textures > add Texture > Paint

Keep adding textures

Detail Tree

AddTree > gameobject > choose tree > paint

Keep adding!

Paint details

Edit details

play with settings

Creating an application

Code for Exit button :

void Update() { if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Escape)) { Application.Quit(); } }

 

drag that script onto the camera

 

File > build settings > PC or Mac > Build.

this can be uploaded onto the drive and played at home.