Building 3D Digital Games
Description
A technology book for kids!
Do you want to create 3D digital games that'll impress your friends, family, and even yourself? This book shows you how to use Alice, a free 3D game programming environment, to make seriously cool video games you'll have as much fun building as you will playing!
- Create your own adventure-recreate your favorite story by giving the characters new choices and writing your own ending
- When zombies attack-make your very own escape room maze and attempt to defeat the enemy before it defeats you
Technology Requirements:
Hardware - PC or tablet with internet connection running Windows® 7 or higher or Mac with internet connection running Mac OS X® 10.7 or higher
Software - Alice-a free programming platform that can be downloaded at alice.org.
Sarah Guthals, PhD, co-founded an ed-tech company and now continues to build technology for kids to learn, create, and share safely online. She loves to teach teachers how to teach coding in the classroom, and wishes she could teach her cats how to code, too!
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduct?ion
- About Alice
- About this Book
- About You
- About the Icons
- Project 1 Getting Alice and Making a Simple Game
- Download and Start Using Alice
- The Five Different Alice Panes
- Add Objects to Your Alice World
- Make an Object Move
- Make a Simple Movie
- Test Your Movie Code
- Code Another Action
- Make a Bunny Hop Game
- Project 2 Adventure Game - Part 1
- Design Your Favorite Story
- Outline Your Game
- Steps to Create Your Own Outline
- The Outline for This Project's Example
- Build Your First Scene in Alice
- Build Scene 1: The Tree
- Set Up Your Camera
- Add Alice and the Hole
- Code Scene 1
- Project 3 Adventure Game - Part 2
- Prepare the Next Scene
- Code the Scene Transition
- Prepare Scene 2
- Code Scene 2
- Code the Ending
- Project 4 Create an Escape Room Maze
- Design Your Escape Room Maze
- Code Your Controls
- Set Up Your Controls
- Define Your Controls
- Add Enemies to Your Maze
- Make Your Enemies Move Around
- Make Your Enemies Try to Defeat Your Players
- Create Code for Winning the Game
- EULA
