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What is
Game Development?
The best application of computer game skills – a course for teens ages 11-19 that provides profound programming skills in Game Development (GameDev). We will create 8 games to share; go from idea to finished product. We’ll learn the basics of psychology of player behaviour and learn how to program. We will get acquainted with Game Design: how to create and design gameplay, manage player emotions and his interest in the game. Our main tools in game design will be Unity3D and C#, which are considered to be incredibly popular on the market. We will learn the basics of C# programming that can be applied not only in GameDev, get acquainted with the creation of graphics, learn how to design interfaces and use 3D animations. We will get familiar Level Design principles, physics engine, light system, work with sounds, particles and cameras. We will learn how to build our own projects for MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS
Benefits
For teenagers only
We are experts in teaching 13-19 year-olds. For many years we accumulated experience of teenage features to take it into account for educational programs and approaches. In dealing with parents, we take the teenager’s side
When computer games are a good thing
Switching from user to creator of computer games. Experience playing games is very welcome. Examples of our students’ work
Career Service
Level Beginner is for understanding the basics of the GameDev profession, and level Advanced is for obtaining professional knowledge and skills at the Junior specialist level. Information about the actual salaries is here
Programming
C# programming language. Its areas of application:
— Computer game development
— Web and mobile application development
— Software development (Windows, Mac, Linux)
— Back-end (server) development
Profession relevancy
GameDev developer – one of the most in-demand IT professions in the rapidly growing computer games market
How to find the first job
Pre-acceleration (entrepreneur) module is a part of level Advanced: how to work freelance, in a company, or start own business; diving into a profession with the support of industry experts; project built-up and pitch for industry experts. Career service for level Advance graduates: internship and/or the first job
Structure of learning:
Educational results
In case of successful completion of the course, the teenager develops such skills:
Level Beginner
- Professional skills (Hard skills):
- 8 made games in different genres
- Basic principles of scripting in C#. gameplay programming
- Skill of working with sound in games
- Basics of directing in games
- Ability to create and develop storytelling
- Creation of key animations. character animation based on bone animation
- Ability to design a game
- Work with shaders, normal maps, Unity textures
- Understanding the basics of the physical engine in Unity3D
- Skill of creating user interfaces
- Creation and work with game assets
- Basics of level design
- Work with light. creation of studio light
- Visual effects. work with particles
- Work with colliders
- Analysis of programs for creating assets
Level Advanced
- Hard skills:
- 10 projects ready for release
- Project management
- Psychological theory of level design. Designing complex levels
- Game Design Theory
- Controlling mood and narrative with light
- Advanced C# programming. Design patterns
- The event system in Unity3D
- Working with advanced physics in Unity3D. Joint systems, creating Ragdolls
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Personal skills (Soft skills):
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Emotional intellect
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Self-identification
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Leadership
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Goal-setting
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Motivation and Discipline
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Time-management
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Self-presentation
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Communications — Conflict studies — Negotiations
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Art of public speaking
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Work with team and customer
Program created / verified
Vladyslav Kyba
Yevgen Pastil
Ciklum
Mykola Mostovenko
Tubular Labs
Serhiy Ostapenko
Digital Dreams Entertainment LLC
Ihor Bilous
Light Games
Oleksander Zakrazhovsky
CrispApp Studio
Arthur Aleksandrov
CrispApp Studio
Markiyan Matsyuk
We Challenge
Taras Lazer
Innovecs
Vitaliy Kiktenko
MURKA
Bohdan Rybak
Moon Tribe Studio
Yaroslav Vygovsky
Falcrum/GlobalLogic
Format
Training in groups
- Duration, level Beginner — 6 months (24 weeks/lessons)
- Studying in a group with an IT expert as a mentor — GameDev specialist, level Middle+; a group of teenagers and study manager support
- Tasks for midweek work: video tutorial (1-5 videos per week), tests to it, practical tasks, additional materials (industry articles, etc.). Checking tasks by the mentor. Communication in the chat
- Group online lessons with a hard skills mentor on weekends (Saturday or Sunday, 2 hours, online in zoom/google meet)
- Feedback for parents: 1. once a month the status of training in the program from the study manager 2. once every three months — feedback from the mentor
Works by our teenagers
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Results
Profession
The IT industry values knowledge and experience. GameDev Course graduate gets:
- Career service, preparation for entering a design faculty at a university (after level Beginner)
- Ability to work on Junior design specialist level (after level Advanced)
- Professional portfolio of individual and team projects
- Upgrade Certificate of each level (Beginner, Advanced)
The first job
- The level Beginner provides a base and understanding of further development. The level Advanced is professional, so it allows our teenagers to work freelance
- The training program consists of team projects and their pitches for industry experts and HR managers. Ampli has a career service for finding internships and first jobs for our graduates
Community
We create a community of teenagers and industry experts
- Project-based education = working in teams on own/team commercial and social projects. Management experience already in adolescence
- Ampli Talks webinars and social events for teenagers. Speeches by experts from IT, design, and business