Year 10 overview

Starter - 10 minutes

This year you will complete your On a Mission unit from Year 9. You should by now have completed ALL paperwork and designed ALL of the elements for your game - if not this must be completed in clinic time after school!!

Now you will have until Christmas to create the following:

1. The game itself
2. A test plan showing testing throughout
3. An instructions booklet
4. A promotional video
5. A magazine review

Look at the brief here to remind you of the unit (it's been 6 weeks!!):

http://www1.edexcel.org.uk/C204_Unit4_SPB0113/html/Unit4Index.htm

Here is an example of a completed ePortfolio for a similar Game Authoring unit:

https://dida.wildern.hants.sch.uk/08harrison.thomas/D205%20SPB11/index.html

Having already completed some basic GameMaker tutorials you can now use the tutorials in File Store - Read - ICT - Miss_Rymill - Game_Authoring or BELOW to create your game from scratch. You must work independently on your game and follow instructions carefully. If you get stuck, read back through instructions as 9 times out of 10 an error will be due to an incorrect instructions in a sequence.

Lastly, if you didn't do so before summer, download this Test Plan and save it in Development - and use it to record EVERY error message!!

Test_plan.doc Download this file:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9fI45E6a9sKcjlyZk9KTkJxZlU/edit?usp=sharing

Here is an example of a test plan:

For 11 marks (FULL MARKS), a student must have recorded progress from the initial moodboard,

through design, prototyping and testing, to the final game and include evidence of:

• the entire design process with evidence of extensive testing and detailed

response to user feedback

• full justification of design decisions

• development of a wide range of effective assets.

Main - 40 minutes

Your main tasks:

1. Check the progress tracker
2. Update your assets table. You should have downloaded this already and added it to your EVIDENCE folder - but it is here too: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9fI45E6a9sKTFdoTldPdWZkVHM/edit?usp=sharing
3. Start to design your game in GameMaker (Start - All programs - ICT & Business)
4. Use the Test Plan to record any errors (take a screenshot) and how you overcame them.

*If you are stuck, simply practise one of the tutorials below or have a go at editing one of the Template Games so that you can see how they work!!




Task 1: - Fruit Game

Download the following file and save it into your own area (you will have to Extract the Zip file): Fruit Game Resources

Play the game you will make from here.

Intro
Task 1 Adding Sprites
Task 2 Adding Objects
Task 3 Creating A Room
Task 4 Adding Sound
Task 5 Adding Bombs
Task 6 Adding Instructions

Task 2: - The Scrolling Shooter (1945)


Download the following file and save it into your own area (you will have to Extract the Zip file): Scrolling Shooter Game Resources

Play the game you will make from here.

Task 1 Making the room
Task 2 Making Your Plane
Task 3 Making the first enemy plane
Task 4 Score, Lives and Damage
Task 5 Making the second enemy plane
Task 6 Making the third enemy plane
Task 7 Extension Tasks

Task 3: - The Basic Platformer

Download the following file and save it into your own area (you will have to Extract the Zip file): Basic Platformer Game Resources

Play the game you will make from here.

Intro
Task 1 Adding Sprites
Task 2 Adding Objects
Task 3 Moving the character left and right
Task 4 Making the character jump and fall
Task 5 Standing on Platforms
Task 6 Making and changing levels

Task 4: - The Advanced Platformer

Download the following file and save it into your own area (you will have to Extract the Zip file): Advanced Platformer Game Resources

Play the game you will make from here.

Intro
Task 1 Making the character face the way it's moving
Task 2 Improving the background and platforms
Task 3 Adding Monsters
Task 4 Colliding with monsters
Task 5 Shooting Bullets
Task 6 Bonus Pickups
Task 8 Climbing
Task 9 Lives and Score - Setting them at the start
Task 10 Lives and Score - Keeping them up to date
Task 11 Lives and Score - Displaying them on screen
Task 12 Bonus Lives
Task 13 Deadly Objects
Task 14 Views

Plenary - 10 minutes

*Add your blog to this list if you have not done so already:

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*Follow my blog - and your house blog too! - using this tutorial:

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*Blog about what you have achieved this lesson