Course Overview
Love playing video games? Fancy creating your own game and playing it on a handheld console? You can play and learn at the same time!
The AI Game Builder Workshop combines the Microsoft MakeCode Arcade platform, basic AI tools, and game programming logic to guide students step-by-step through the process of game creation—from brainstorming ideas, understanding coding concepts, to completing a playable product.

With a hands-on and gamified learning approach, students will explore existing games, modify them, and create their own unique projects, culminating in uploading their game to a mini console they can take home. 


Course Duration: 8 lessons, 2 hours each
Target Audience: Teenagers aged 10+ (1 parent/guardian may accompany the student)
Materials Provided: Each student will receive a mini game console preloaded with their own designed game. Student needs to bring his/her own computer.


Learning Objectives

  
Creative Expression: Design everything from game characters to rules
  
Programming Logic: Learn Variables, If/Else Conditions, and Flowchart thinking
  
AI Tools Application: Use AI to assist in creating game elements
  
Problem-Solving: Improve critical thinking through testing and debugging
  
Portfolio Building: Create a showcase project for school applications, interviews, or competitions 
 
Why Parents Should Choose This Course

  
Learning Through Play: Children naturally learn coding and creative design through game development
  
Safe and Structured: Led by experienced instructors with real-time guidance
  
Parent-Child Interaction: Parents can join the lessons and share the creative fun
  
Technology Awareness: Early exposure to AI, coding, and game development skills
  
Sense of Achievement: Kids bring home a playable console to share with family and friends 
 
Course Outline (8 Lessons)

Lesson 1｜Game Basics & MakeCode Example Play

  
Understand game elements (Sprites, Win/Lose Conditions, Interface, Animation, Physics)
  
Play and analyze different types of games
  
Edit simple games and add personal creative elements

Lesson 2｜Programming Logic & Physics Concepts

  
Flowchart thinking (If/Else Conditions)
  
Applying Input/Output (I/O) in games
  
Concepts of Position, Velocity, and Acceleration in sprites

Lesson 3｜Game Template Analysis & Customization

  
Select a base game template and analyze its structure
  
Learn about Movements, Animations, Projectiles, Tile Maps
  
Add custom elements and test them

Lesson 4｜Completing and Optimizing the Template Game

  
Bug fixing
  
Improving smoothness and interactivity

Lesson 5｜Planning Your Own Game

  
Decide game type (Platformer, Dungeon, Clicker, etc.)
  
Plan required elements (Characters, Enemies, Map, Interface, I/O)
  
Create a game flowchart

Lesson 6｜Game Creation (Part 1)

  
Design sprites and maps
  
Set win conditions and interface elements

Lesson 7｜Testing & Debugging

  
Identify and fix bugs
  
Optional: Use Arrays and Functions to improve performance

Lesson 8｜Publishing Your Game & Future Applications

  
Final polish and completion
  
Load the game onto the mini console
  
Introduction to advanced game development platforms (e.g., Unity)