Courses run 9:30am - 4:30pm* Mon-Fri
*Winchester venue finishes 5:30pm/3:15pm (Last Day)

If you’ve not done any before, you’ll start off with a crash course in soldering before assembling your game console. 

You’ll then start your game design journey, learning about all aspects of game design needed to create enjoyable 2D games, including:

• Sprite creation (graphical characters)
• Sound effects and background music tracks
• Physics of games including collisions
• Scoring systems, lives & countdown timers
• Loops, conditionals, variables, functions & arrays
• Creating tile maps and rooms
• Camera functions
• Advanced physics (e.g. acceleration, gravity)
• Background effects
• Splash screens, dialogs and text
• Animations, firing and custom graphic effects

You’ll build over 10 games that you can customise throughout your course, including maze games, space shooters, a ‘lunar lander’, a version of ‘pong’ and ‘pacman’, and ‘platformers’.

Once you’ve done all this, you’ll have the skills to create your own games in a variety of genres.