The Gaming Approach to Creative Educational Technology

This paper describes a game design and development course. The rationale for forming this class was to use student excitement with video games as a higher motivation over traditional courses. Today's students have grown up exposed to gaming, interactive environments, and vivid 3D. The rationale of creating a set of game design classes utilizes gaming as a teaching tool to attract and instruct students with familiar methods and environments. This work will introduce the development of an introductory game design class, its structure, artifacts created, student and instructor's reflections.