Video Game Design – Week-long

Course Overview

Put your gaming experience and imagination into action, developing an original game that you can fully play and show to friends and family. This is a remote course for all abilities and ages.

The fundamentals covered in Video Game Design are a great first step into the world of coding. Students are introduced to programming and a behaviour-based logic system – applying behaviours and attributions, testing, debugging and fine-tuning products – that comprises a core component of computer science and is familiar to any programmer. This is a rich course and one of our most popular, and many kids take it more than once to take their skills even further.  

We use Construct 3 ® to develop games that you can play on any platform. It is a free platform, which means once you have an account, you can keep developing games after your course has finished! Construct 3 ® makes it easy to get started, work with an impressive library of behaviours and attributes, and produce some great-looking final products. 

This is a remote learning course. Led by an onscreen expert who is fully DBS-checked, you will join a small group of other young learners online, working together and making lots of progress in fun and interactive sessions. All sessions are monitored and recorded for safety.

This course is also available in part-time and in-person formats.

Course ratings

	How much did you enjoy your course? Score: 4.7/5
	How would you compare your experience at Fire Tech to school? Score: 4.4/5
	How likely are you to create with technology for fun, using the skills you learned? Score: 4.1/5

Source: Post-course feedback, 138 student ratings