And we’re back!
Girls Make Games is back with a 4 week course in Belfast
Open to girls aged between 11 and 14, this FREE 4 week course introduces the students to some of the skills needed to make your own computer game. Starting 11th January, between 4.30 and 6.30, this course includes learning how to use Gamemaker, a free 2D game engine, and how to use illustration software Procreate on ipads. We also give the girls an idea of what it is like to work in the exciting and growing world of game dev in Northern Ireland, with talks from some of the super inspiring women working in game dev today.
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WHY GAMES?
self expression
The process of deciding on the theme or topic, and how to communicate it to your audience within the structure of an interactive game or story requires the development of certain skills. These include:
Creative problem solving
Creative thinking
Working and making decisions as a group
Sharing ideas and experiences
Considering practical responses
Examining possible outcomes
The ability to analyse an issue and approach it in abstract ways
Allowing different perspectives and complex representations to develop
DIGITAL AND BUSINESS SKILLS
Making and promoting a mobile game covers a wide range of practical skills, and we provide introductory hands on experience of them with free to use and widely available technology. These skills include:
Script writing
Programming
Social media for promotion and marketing
Working in a group
Music recording and digital manipulation
Digital image manipulation
Games design and theory
Graphic design
Animation
Planning, scheduling and budgeting.
Our workshops cover
The game and it’s message is completely driven from the ground up by the people involved. We facilitate and encourage discussion of the issues and societal pressures that affect the group, what message do they want to get across?
What problem do THEY want to address? And how can they decide that as a group?
What does the game look like?
How does it work?
We encourage the group to propose and consider practical responses and examine possible outcomes through the step by step logic / process of designing a computer game.
We work with the group to make the game, using freely available online tools, giving a taste of some of the skills involved in game making including digital image manipulation, script writing, art work, sound recording and coding, designed to increase the participants confidence when working with digital technologies.
Contact Us
Call us on 07808161558. If we don't pick up please leave a message.
Email us at info@kippie.org.uk
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