On Friday 23 April 2021 Year 10 IST attended a workshop at School run by Alex Binskin of Sugar Coated Games. Alex is a professional game design with a focus on creating games that are fun and educational. The workshop was an introduction to Unity, which is a game design platform.

 

 

We started with nothing and had never used Unity before. Over the day we learned how to make a game. The object of the game we made was collecting coins to earn points. We did this by making a character to play in the game and made coins around it for him to collect. We used Visual Studio to learn how to code the game so we could earn points and navigate our way around the gaming platform. At the end of the day, we all had a game that was simple, but it helps us to learn the basics of coding and creating a game. Overall, we had a lot of fun. By Sophie Freedman

 

On Friday last week, Year 10 IST had a workshop to learn a game developing software called Unity run by Alex from Sugar Coated Games. He took us through the basics of the software and step by step assisted us in creating the basis for a three-dimensional platformer. Most of us went into the workshop with no previous experience however we all ended up with a “bean” that we could make move in any direction, jump, and even collect coins to update our score. By Ashley Goldman

 

I really enjoyed the Unity workshop and found it very helpful, as well as super entertaining! Alex was fun and a good teacher, and he gave us good knowledge to prepare us for our Unity course this term. I would definitely recommend the workshop to others. By Leah Wolf