Make Your Own Video Games
Turn your ideas into real games you can share: think like a game designer, build games in Scratch and GDevelop (no coding needed), make pixel art and sound effects, and publish online.
What you'll learn
- Explain how video games are made and who makes them
- Use game design ideas: goals, rules, challenge, feedback and the core loop
- Build a working platformer game in Scratch
- Make a game without code in GDevelop
- Create simple pixel art and sound effects for your game
- Publish your game online safely and improve it with feedback
Course content
Part 1. How video games are made3 lessons
Part 2. Think like a game designer4 lessons
Part 3. Your first game in Scratch4 lessons
Part 4. No-code games with GDevelop5 lessons
Part 5. Art and sound for your game5 lessons
Part 6. Share your game and play-test it4 lessons
Part 7. Games in Africa and careers in games4 lessons
Part 8. Final project1 lesson
Capstone project: Capstone: make and share your own game. You finish by building something real; a mentor reviews it before your certificate is issued.
About this course
Do you love playing games? Then it's time to make your own! In this course you'll learn how games are made and how to think like a game designer (with Game Maker's Toolkit), build a platformer step by step in Scratch with griffpatch, make games with no code at all in GDevelop, draw pixel art and create sound effects with free tools, and share your game on itch.io so friends and family can play. You'll also meet African game studios like Kiro'o Games (Cameroon) and Leti Arts (Ghana), and learn about careers in games. Everything is free and works in a web browser. Your final project is your own finished game. About 3 hours of video, plus lots of creating.