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Game Creation - Arcade & Platform - Summer Game Design Camps - Make Your Own Video Game

Game Creation - Arcade & Platform

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Don't just PLAY games, MAKE them! The video game development industry is hot. Video Game Creation - Arcade & Platform is the definitive iD Tech summer experience. Learn Clickteam® Multimedia Fusion 2 Developer® as well as Adobe® Flash® CS4 and Photoshop® CS4 to create a complex, realistic arcade or platform style video game like Super Mario™, Tetris™ or Space Invaders™. Create cool characters in Spore™ Creature Creator and import them into your game. Welcome to iD! Click to the left for more details, and scroll down for promotions and multi-week packages.

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Featured Software

Utilizing the user friendly yet extremely powerful Clickteam® Multimedia Fusion 2 Developer as well as Adobe Photoshop CS4, Flash CS4 and Spore™ Creature Creator, learn to create a complex, realistic video game with everything from health meters to collision detection. You will learn everything about game making, from crafting a storyline to tweaking formulas for more aggressive enemies-even populating your game with famous characters like Mario, Master Chief, and more! Use Adobe Flash CS4 to create your own in-game cinema sequence! If you're ready to learn how to make games by turning your ideas into something amazing, look no further! Click to find out more about the cutting edge products used at our summer camps.

Skill Level, Ages & Tuition

Customized for beginner to advanced learners ages 10-15. Curriculum is delivered in small student clusters and is individually tailored to each student. After learning how to make a game, all students will go home with a completed project at the end of the week. Learn to make your own video games this summer!

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Our Recommendations

There are no prerequisites for this course. This video game design camp is perfect for aspiring game designers or those who just love gaming. Rather than playing video games for hours, you'll spend your time exercising your imagination while you make your own 2D game! This 2D development environment will remind you of typical games you'd find in an arcade. The cool software features vast asset libraries and a powerful yet user-friendly drag and drop interface. Our curriculum provides an introduction to programming concepts and real-world math applications. Most importantly, it's fun!

Where Offered?

Where can you create your own video game? Game Creation - Arcade & Platform offered at all locations.

What's New?

New Curriculum! We've created new modules based on the very latest versions of Adobe Photoshop and Flash CS4, and Multimedia Fusion 2 Developer. Some students will use the Vitalize Plug-in to upload and share their games to the web.

How We Teach

iD Tech Camps students receive the highest caliber technology education any summer camp has to offer! Students in this summer camp for kids and teens will be able to move along faster and more independently or collaborate utilizing our customized lessons while still receiving our gold standard 1-on-1 instruction (average 6 students per staff). Using the latest in hardware and software, our adult staff work hands-on with each student from project theory to completion (you won’t find counselors-in-training at iD). It’s time to unleash your internalDrive - Welcome to iD! Find out more about how we teach.

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Video Game Creation

iD Green Light Specials. Save $100 off Summer Camps. Select Locations. Updated Every Friday!

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Got game? Don’t just play video games. Create your own!

If you’ve got a passion for video games or want to learn more about game programming, this course just might be the perfect match for you. This course focuses on Arcade and Platform style video game creation. Think Donkey Kong™, Super Mario Brothers™, Centipede™, PacMan™, Space Invaders™ and Tetris™. The best part? No matter where your imagination takes you, after you make your own game, you’ll take it home with you at the end of the week.

Gain more skills and save on each additional week!

Save $50 off each additional week with these suggested multi-week packages. Either register for the SAME course over multiple weeks, gaining advanced skills, or register for distinct courses over multiple weeks for a broad perspective.

courses_table_arrow Game Creation - Arcade & PlatformCreate Your Own Package - Customize your world! courses_table_arrow Game Creation - Arcade & PlatformGame Design Package - Design different genres of video games. courses_table_arrow Game Creation - Arcade & PlatformGaming Package - Learn different aspects of the gaming industry. courses_table_arrow Game Creation - Arcade & PlatformGame Programming Package - Learn the programming languages behind video games. courses_table_arrow Game Creation - Arcade & PlatformSampler Package - Learn many different skill sets.
Combine courses to suit your individual interests and style! Game Creation - Arcade & Platform Game Creation - Arcade & Platform Game Creation - Arcade & Platform Game & Web Design Hybrid
Enroll in two, three, four or more weeks! 3D Game Design - Role Playing Games Game Modding - Warcraft® lll Programming in C++ & Java Web Design & Flash® Animation
You’ll save an additional $50 per week! 3D Game Design - 1st Person Shooters Game Modding - Unreal Tournament® 3 Web Design & Flash® Animation Game Creation - Arcade & Platform
You’ll gain a deeper skill set with each additional week! 3D Game Design - Unreal® Engine 3
3D Game Modeling with Maya® iD Gaming Academy 3D Game Design - Role Playing Games
iD Gaming Academy Gaming Athletes iD Programming Academy Programming in C++ or Java
iD Gaming Academy
NOTE: Some courses have age, location and skill restrictions. Click the specific course for details. Can’t decide which courses to take? Consult our course grid or phone us at 1-888-709-TECH (8324).

Gaming Activities: Gaming Tournaments, Ultimate Gaming Weekends
General gameplay is a fun aspect of our summer camps, but does not infringe on instructional time. This season will feature Gaming Tournaments and Ultimate Gaming Weekends showcasing the industry’s best. We use NVIDIA® GeForce® gaming cards for peak gaming performance. Students will play BIG titles from Epic Games®, Activision®, Blizzard® Entertainment, THQ®, Microsoft® GameStudios™ and more. In order to offer the most cutting edge experience for our campers, we have adopted the policy of allowing the use of some select games with ESRB ratings of “E” for Everyone, “T” for Teen and “M” for Mature to be used as part of our curriculum in a supervised environment. We take our corporate responsibility and iD family values very seriously, but cannot guarantee that younger students will avoid complete contact with these games. Please know that we make every effort to minimize exposure to any games not appropriate for these age groups.

Note 1: Gaming does NOT infringe on instructional time.
Note 2: Games with ESRB Ratings of E, T and M are used at our camps.

Attention Teens:

Check out the Teen Scene at our teen camps! You can also find out more about our other courses at iD Tech Camps as well as the iD Gaming Academy, a two-week intensive teen-only game development academy. Want more gaming? Check out our NVIDIA®-hosted teen gaming tournaments and Ultimate Gaming Weekends.

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Cool Summer Camp Activities

Balance is the key to every week at iD. While we are in the labs a majority of the day, we certainly take time out for fun summer camp activities. Students may participate in ultimate frisbee, capture-the-flag, fun outdoor teambuilding games, soccer, etc. Sports are not your thing? no worries! We've got awesome gaming tournaments, Guitar Hero®, social time and more! Details.
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internalDrive, Inc. operates its flagship iD Tech Camps for kids and teens along with the iD Gaming Academy, iD Film Academy and iD Programming Academy. Day camps, overnight Camps, kids camps, children's summer camps and teen summer camps are held at over 60 prestigious universities in the USA and Canada. Make your own game at our game design camps. Learn programming in C++ or Java at our programming camps and robotics camps. Get creative at our web design camps and digital arts camps. Film and edit at our movie camps.