teaching game programming
Prebuilt templates
Other Engines
Sparks at NC state. Twine -> Gamemaker
Twine, Scratch, Kano Code, Lego Robotics (I think they have an online simulator? May cost $$), etc. (And Gamemaker)
Construct 3 would be awesome!
They really love the code part of things
They may not like the drag and drop for too long, maybe only make that the first few days.
Have each group work on one of the elements of a platformer. Make a game with 6 elements missing, and then have each group put in one of those elements.
What if one of the group finishes earlier than the others?
gmtk platformer toolkit
narrowly defined assignments that are complicated they’ll blow through it, but a simple but broad assignment will take a lot of time.
team facilitators over team leads
cross functional teams
