The camp offers a fun, immersive, one-week experience where campers move past Scratch basics to design, code, and polish their own video games from start to finish.
Campers embark on a guided journey through the five steps of game design using Scratch, a visual, block-based coding platform. The camp moves beyond the basics, teaching participants to design, code, and polish their own video games from start to finish. Activities include character and world creation, where campers learn about sprites, backdrops, motion, and starting positions to design interactive digital pets or avatars. They then delve into building movement and logic, utilizing variables, if/then statements, and collision detection to create games like a Dodge/Catch game. The curriculum also covers advanced concepts such as simulating gravity, using looping blocks, and understanding broadcasting to design simple platformer games. Campers will leave with at least two completed projects, gaining valuable skills in logical thinking, creativity, and design.
A typical day involves hands-on learning, creative problem-solving, and teamwork as campers work on designing, coding, and polishing their video games.
This camp is ideal for young coders and game enthusiasts who have some prior experience with Scratch or are ready to jump into creating their own digital worlds.
Macalester College
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