A collaborative effort to combine students of different cultures to design video games together.

1. Multicultural Game Design
as an Intro to Computer Science
Mark Suter (aka Garlic)

2. Poll:Have you used GameMaker Studio?
A) Never
B) Very Little
C) Occasionally
D) Very Often

3. Poll: What grade level do you teach?
A) Grades 1-4
B) Grades 5-8
C) Grades 9-12
D) University or adult

4. Overview: Who
● Students from different cultures and
countries
● Grades 5+

5. Overview: What
● Exposure to
o New viewpoints
o communication styles
o collaboration methods
● Communicate using
o Game Exchange: Padlet.com
o Google+ Community
Padlet.com
 Schedule Hangouts On Air Here & @garlicsuter

6. Overview: When
● Practice+Network:
o Now through Jan 6, 2014
o Try GameMaker Studio (free version)
o Try Google+ community & Hangouts
● Official start: Jan 6, 2014
o Google Hangout on Air “Welcome”

7. Overview: How
● Fill out the Google Form
o Tweeted 11/20/2013 @garlicsuter
● Visit G+ and search/join the “Multicultural
Game Design Team Teams” community

8. Summer 2014 expand to 3DGameLab?
- Quest-based
learning platform
- Students choose
learning path
- Completing quests
unlock new ones
www.3dgamelab.com

9. Tour of GameMaker Studio + subject ties
● Computer Science
o Loops, variables, debugging, if-then statements
● Math
o Algebraic variable concepts, grids/coordinates,
 i.e. (room is 3000 pixels wide, moving 2
pixels/sec, when will he intercept an enemy at X
position 2,840?)

10. Tour of GameMaker Studio + subject ties
● Language Arts
o Game story/creative writing
● Art
o Digital Pixel Art
 i.e. in-game editor, piq.com
http://piq.codeus.net