School Game Making Workshops

We recently took several game making workshops with Year 12 pupils at St. Bede’s Catholic School in Durham. Stuart from Fluid Pixel joined Cora and myself in taking the workshops which consisted of three half day sessions over three weeks.

During the workshops we introduced the group to the games industry, some of the games we have made, and gave them a general insight in to how we, and the games industry work. The pupils were then introduced to the Microsoft platform PopFly, which is a great interface to learn the basic logic and behaviors simple games have. After playing some of the games and ripping them apart, the pupils then looked at planning and creating their own game using the platform.

The final session was spent polishing the game, and talking about how publishing and marketing works in the industry with some real life examples of our games. The pupils seemed to really enjoyed the sessions and the school plans to introduce similar workshops to more pupils in the future.