Group items tagged

This article talks about Unreal Engine 4, a professional game engine that I hope to learn and use for my 20% time project. Unreal Engine 4 is used by many developers around the world to create great graphic intensive games, and I hope to do the same and take full utilization of this awesome tool.

Ren'Py is a visual novel engine that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell stories with the computer. These can be both visual novels and life simulation games. The easy to learn script language allows you to efficiently write large visual novels, while its Python scripting is enough for complex simulation games. Ren'Py is open source and free for commercial use. It supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Android.

The Pew Research Center reports that approximately 97% of teens play video games in their free time. Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subject-areas have used programming and game design to teach 21st Century skills, but what can an English class do to leverage the potential of game-based learning?

This resource is a whole list of sprites that work well with the Game Maker software. This is valuable because if you need some sprites, look no further, there are hundreds on this site (including Nyan Cat)!

This site includes lesson plans, contest information, and more related to teaching with Scratch