Game Maker for beginners

Hands on computer lab for beginners. This session covers Game Maker's drag and drop programming. At the end of the session you will have created a Pacman or Space Invaders type of game.

Game Maker's simple drag and drop interface is suitable down to Year 3, but through its powerful scripting language, it is suitable to Year 12 and beyond. With Gamemaker you can easily create games such as top view, platform games, first person shooters, 3D and networked multiplayer games. It is a fully fledged programming language capable of non game applications such as physics simulations and databases.

Computer games provide an engaging, relevant and authentic context for students to write programs. Computer programming develops students' mathematics and problem solving skills.

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All delegates attending this session must bring and ensure:

This is a BYO laptop conference. Gamemaker should be installed beforehand, this is a free download from yoyogames.com
The unregistered or lite version is ok.