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

Perspectives

Each framework has a different perspective

MDA demonstrates that gamers and designers approach games from different directions
- Encourages designers to see games from the perspective of players
Formal, Dramatic, & Dynamic breaks games down into specific components that can be isolated, tweaked, and improved
Elemental Tetrad views games from the perspective of a development studio

The Layered Elemental Tetrad is a combination and extension of these frameworks.

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