Credits: 1.0 Programming or 1.0 Math and
0.5 Occupational Education and 0.5 Fine Arts
Teachers Jonathan Fleck & Jennifer Styer
This is a unique opportunity for students in Whatcom County to come together and
learn video game programming and graphics. Students will take the programming
and graphics from specialized instructors for a full year.
Turn your passion for video games, art, or technology into a future career in the multi-billion-dollar video game industry. This class will be taught in a state of the art lab in cooperation with the Digipen Institute of Technology.
Students’ learning will include game analysis, game design, creation of characters and their environments, low-polygon modeling, and file limitations. Other content covered will be the C++ programming language, algebra, geometry and trigonometry concepts, and game production using the Fun Editor (Digipen product). A wide range of skills will be developed in the class including, storyboarding, sketching, rendering, animation, and program debugging.