Me and Al Cannes

Digital Game Design For K-12 Classrooms

Course Description

In this course, students will learn how to design and develop mobile games for K-12 classrooms using GameSalad Creator. Students understand Mobile learning and play mobile instructional games. Following game development guide on GameSalad to create a new instructional mobile game, students will be able to design their own short and simple instructional game for either iPhone or Android. These three steps for designing a mobile game will provide novice students with a valuable programming experience for the future instructional game design.

In this course we..

  • Installed GameSalad Creator on the Windows Operating System.
  • Went over the basics of mobile learning
  • Played with mobile instructional games.
  • Learned interfaces in GameSalad.
  • Created a simple and short game in GameSalad.
  • Published a game either for Apple store and the Android market.
  • Designed, developed and published an instructional game.