After School Programs
These structured, 6-week programs meet once a week on the same day and time in week days.
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Dive into topics like coding, animation, or game development
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Consistent weekly sessions build momentum and mastery
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Students receive a program completion certificate
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Check our After-School Program Schedule for available sessions
Board Game Design - After School Certificate Program
6 Classes
Learn how to design a board game like a pro with Bloxels set. After you will learn game genres and mechanics with play testing some amazing award winning games, it is time to create your own board game, ideation to implementing game mechanics, test play to design your own art. After 6 classes, you will take your program completion certification and board game of your design as a trophy.
Class 1: Strategy Games
Learning strategy game design with deep dive into 7 Wonders Architects.
Class 2: Dice Games
Learning dice game design with deep dive into King of Tokyo.
Class 3: Dexterity Games
Learning dexterity game design with deep dive into Dungeon Fighters.
Class 4: Race Games
Learning race game design with deep dive into Camel Up.
Class 5: Make your own Board Game Part 1
Learn how to implement game mechanics into your own board game design.
Class 6: Make your own Board Game Part 2
Design your art for your own board game design.
Pixel Art Game Design - After School Certificate Program
6 Classes
Learn how to design a pixel art game with simple to use Bloxels game engine. Your game concept, your story! You will create your own hero and villains, animate their idle, walk, jump and fall states, build game levels, environments and story interaction points. After 6 classes, you will take your program completion certification and link to your published game as a trophy.
Class 1: Game Concept and Story
Creating your own game story with brainstorming with classmates.
Class 2: Character Design
Design hero, villains and NPCs.
Class 3: Animation
Animate your characters, give them life.
Class 4: Level Design Part 1
Building your levels that matches with your story.
Class 5: Level Design Part 2
As you put your levels together test and gather feedback from classmates.
Class 6: Level Design Part 3
Time to tie everything together, polish your game and publish.
Video Game Development - After School Certificate Program
6 Classes
Learn the computer science behind a video game with GameSalad game engine. Binaries, hex colors, position, rotation and scaling in level editor, level design, coding blocks, variables, conditions and more. After 6 classes, you will take your program completion certification and link to your published game as a trophy.
Class 1: Game Engine Interface
Learn engine user interface with a pre-built game Wizard Run and use existing actors to construct their own levels.
Class 2: Creating a Game
Foundations of a basic game including user input, actor movement, collision, object collection, and victory/failure conditions.
Class 3: Computer Systems
This class introduces the concept of object-oriented programming through random object spawners.
Class 4: Variables in Games
This class covers spawning, scoring, and more complex AI logic through building the classic game Pong.
Class 5: Animations and Game Physics
Physics simulation, particle systems, animation control and a variety of platformer game mechanics such as running, jumping, object collection and more will be covered in this class.
Class 6: Conditional Branching and Data
Concepts of conditional branching and multidimensional arrays in a quiz game that inspires creativity.
Role Playing Games - After School Certificate Program
6 Classes
Let's learn Dungeons & Dragons role playing games, character design, dice set, game play, rules with amazingly fun age appropriate stories. Not only you will have a good time with DnD world but also you will peak at the game master craft, how to balance a game, how to make the experience fun. After 6 classes, you will take your own set of dice and completion certification home, as trophies.
Class 1: Character Creation and Game Rules
First you have to learn the rules. Character traits, Dnd dice, how combat and magic works.
Class 2: The Goblin Market Part 1 - The Trouble with Goblins
First chapter of a fun Goblin trilogy. No spoilers here.
Class 3: The Goblin Market Part 2 - The Goblin Market
Second chapter of Goblin Market
Class 4: The Goblin Market Part 3 - The Gloomy Grotto
Third and last chapter of Goblin Market trilogy.
Class 5: Tiny Adventure Part 1 - The Trouble with Small
First chapter of another amazing story. What if you are so much smaller? No spoilers here.
Class 6: Tiny Adventure Part 2 - The Tumble Sprite Rally
Complete the Tiny Adventure.
Collectable Card Games - After School Certificate Program
6 Classes
CCGs open a new door to game designers to understand how to make a millions of players excited about a simple game. Learning how to play Magic the Gathering and Pokemon, how to build decks for tournaments and how to strategize your gameplay as important and fun as collecting those shiny cards. After 6 classes, you will take your own set of MTG and Pokemon cards and completion certification home, as trophies.
Class 1: Magic the Gathering - How to Play
Learn how to play Magic the Gathering.
Class 2: Magic the Gathering Deck building - Single Color
Build your own deck with your color of choice.
Class 3: Magic the Gathering Deck building - Dual Color
Build your own deck with 2 color of your choice.
Class 4: Magic the Gathering - Tournament
Have a tournament with your classmates.
Class 5: Pokemon - How to Play
Learn how to play Pokemon.
Class 6: Pokemon - Tournament
Have a tournament with your classmates.