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Video Game Design and Development: Introduction to Game Programming
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Overview

Duration

2 weeks

Total fee

2,205

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Video Game Design and Development: Introduction to Game Programming
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Highlights

  • Duration 2 weeks
  • Weekly study 3 hours
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Video Game Design and Development: Introduction to Game Programming
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Course details

More about this course
  • Video games have become a multi-billion-dollar industry, even recently overshadowing cinema as the globe's go-to entertainment medium of choice.
  • Training to become a video game developer gives you access to this thriving industry, letting you be creative in the process, while gaining key transferable skills.
  • On this course, you'll get an introduction to the major concepts of game programming, including user input, rendering and collision detection. You'll take a detailed look at core programming concepts such as loops, conditional statements and data storage.

Video Game Design and Development: Introduction to Game Programming
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Curriculum

Core Concepts

Course Introduction

Game Loop

User Input

Rendering

Delta Time

Sprites

Animated Sprites

Physics and Forces

Collision Detection

Tile Map Rendering

Week 1 Assessment

Summary

Programming Fundamentals

Introduction

Programming Fundamentals

For Loop

While Loops

Conditional Statements

Data Storage

Functions

Classes

Summary

Assessment

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