About designing a video game

1. Design Your Own Video
Game

2. Do you play video games?
• Action
• Adventure
• RPG
• Simulation
• Etc…

3. If you can create your own game…
You can
• change how a game works
• design the characters by yourself

4. How it is created?
•Using Raspberry Pi
- a tiny computer

5. Project
• show you how to
make your own
video game

6. Follow the step-by-step directions
• You can set up a simple video game
• Control a cat and escape from a dog

7. Programming
•Scratch
• is a programming language
• easy to use

8. Controller
• You will also build a controller
• It has two buttons

9. After you complete these steps…
•You can modify the game
-> More complicated !
-> More challenging !

10. What do you do it for?
• Just for fun
or
• Turn it into an engineering project

11. To make it an engineering project
•Follow the engineering design process
1. Define how your video game works
2. Work through the rest of the design process

12. To make it a science project
•Follow the scientific method
-> Come up with a question video games can be
used to answer.
Ex) Does the age affect a person’s ability in the game?

13. If you like this project…
• More information in Science Buddies Store
• The kit contains parts and directions for
Seven Other Fun Projects

14. Credits
• http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-
projects/project_ideas/CompSci_p059.shtml#summary

15. Thank you.