Making Digital Games with Visual Tools

In this video we will introduce you to the basics of a digital game, and show how basic types of games can be built: a visual-coding game make in GameMaker, and a script-based game made in C.

We’ll dive into how to create game with these two tools in further videos. The visual-based tool, GameMaker, will be covered in the rest of this part of the curriculum (PG). You can find tutorials for more advanced games made with C in the programming section (CP).

This video has a brief and high-level review of the game engines and common components such a physics, AI, and audio/video.

A brief and high-level review of the input-process-output cycle as the basis of how a computer work, applying that to games, and the definition of algorithms and programs as what implements that cycle.

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