1. Module Overview

Module Overview Assessment Games Design & Development MacinCloud First SpriteKit App

2. Games Development

Iterative Design Design Documents The One-Sheet The Ten Pager The Beat Chart Game Design Document

3. Games Vocabulary

Vocabulary & Definitions Definitions Of Game Game Features Central Concepts Common Concepts

4. Frameworks

Frameworks MDA Formal, Dramatic & Dynamic Elements The Elemental Tetrad Perspectives The Layered Tetrad

Swift Basics SpriteKit Quick Game New Game Scenes & Nodes Backgrounds Particles Sprites Touchscreen Obstacles Collisions Full Game Scoring A Better Ending Restarting The Game Finishing Touch Final Game ? Extensions

6. SpriteKit Overview

SpriteKit SKNode SKAction Physics Engine SKTexture Particle System Animated Sprite

7. Physics Contacts & Collisions

Contacts & Collisions

8. More Physics

More Physics Joints Assessment

Mid-Module Evaluation

Mid Module Evaluation

Frameworks

A number of analytical frameworks for games have been proposed. These frameworks are intended to help understand and discuss the structure and fundamentals elements of games and the the impact of games on players and society.

Frameworks do not define what a game is. Frameworks are an approach to understanding and and analysing the elements that are needed to make a game and the dynamic behaviour of those elements during play.

Frameworks Covered

MDA
Formal, Dramatic, and Dynamic Elements
Elemental Tetrad
Layered Tetrad

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