ADA2014: from the idea to the implementation of a Smartphone videogame

The art of software creation: 90 hours of digital creativity

The “ADA” course aims at guiding the girls to implement their own Smartphone videogame: from the idea to the prototype, from the analysis of all the game phases to the implementation of the underlying code, from the development of graphic and audio components to the implementation of the whole game.

The course consists of the following steps:

• 1. What’s a videogame? Let’s understand all of the dynamics related to the possible scenarios we want to develop. Implementing a Smartphone videogame: all the phases necessary to complete the project.
• 2. From the initial idea to the design of our game mechanics: software tools that are useful during the design and prototyping phase.
• 3. Creating a game often means to create an entire world! We’ll need to create graphics, animations, audio and to write many lines of code: let’s choose softwares and frameworks that are valid helps for our project and assign to each girl her own tasks!
• 4. Writing code is a form of art: from the basics of programming to a first working prototype.
• 5. Graphics: from the main graphich tecniques of game design to the creation of backgrounds and characters.
• 6. Audio: from the resources available on the Internet to the possibility of creating our own customized audio comment.
• 7. Let’s put all the game components together in our software framework and let’s test our game
• 8. Are we ready? It’s time to publish our videogame on www.ragazzedigitali.it and promote it through social networks!