"The Teacher Roadmap provides instructions for teaching the "Game Development with XNA: Semester 1" material. This is an exciting CS course that allows students to apply their basic foundation in programming to game and simulation development using C# and the XNA framework. The complete curriculum is available below."
students learn to design and program their own educational games through a mix of teacher-led instruction, team-based learning and online networking with experts and peers; complete curriculum included; application required
free toolkit to create point-and-click games and multimedia software without any scripting or programming. It runs on Windows, and it allows creating software for Windows, PSP, iPhone, and iPod touch. All you have to do is to import your pictures, add some hotspots to link the pictures to one another, and you are done. Adventure Maker is suitable for the creation of picture-based adventure games, virtual tours, educational software, presentations, and interactive visits.
framework for reading and writing gamebooks, such as the Choose Your Own Adventure, Lone Wolf, and Fighting Fantasy series. Not a 3D environment and mostly text-based, but does contain some good branching and good for RPG; free.
With Phrogram, you can learn the experience of programming using a development environment that is similar to what working programmers use to write, test and debug their software programs.
Shodor is a non-profit organization that serves K-12 students and educators by providing materials and instruction that relate to computational science (scientific, interactive computing). Shodor's free online curriculum tools can be used in the classroom.
This is a fun arcade-style keyboarding game. You type words as they appear, which causes rockets to fire at approaching aliens. The vocabulary is pretty high, so this is best used with secondary students.
"Welcome to the fun side of computer science! Explore how computer science is also about people, solving puzzles, creativity, changing the future and, most of all, having fun."
