15 replies to this topic

[joihnsonlee]

are there any online courses for game maker? like http://www.icslearn.co.uk?

[Chris_Devl]

Not that I know of.. But there are plenty of tutorials, examples, and people willing to help right here on these forums.

[David Batty]

I am converting my classroom course to online at the moment, I have the url and all the content, I am double checking all content, sprites etc are public domain so I don't have any issues after I have finished the course, and I am checking everything is as it should be before I do the filming.

I will mention the course on here when its up and running.

[Funk E. Gamez]

I would recommend the mentor list:
http://gmc.yoyogames...howtopic=154589

[joihnsonlee]

David Batty,

i hope your course doesn't only just cover the tutorials in yoyogames....

[David Batty]

joihnsonlee I am a professional, My course does not touch any of the tutorials in YoYo games, I develop my own teaching materials. I don't know why you thought I might present the YoYo games tutorials as a course in Gamemaker, I have been delivering GM courses in classrooms since the earliest GM incarnations and have never used anyone elses material.

The tutorials developed by YoYo games are not a course in GameMaker and as such should not be delivered as a course in Gamemaker. They are tutorials in one aspect of the language and could only be used if inserted at the correct point in a more comprehensive course. If someone did want to use them then I would suggest that they don't use them as course material but instead suggest that the students go home and use them as homework, as a recap of the course topic (eg. facebook integration or physics).

With any subject the important thing is to teach the underpinning skills, then progress based on those skills, the YoYo games tutorials could be used in a course but would need lots of other material to glue them together.

With any teacher/tutor the important thing is that the tutor 'owns' the material they are presenting, not just telling someone how to follow someone else's tutorial, but developing and moulding their own classes based on past experiences and also on the target audience.

My classroom sessions change as I notice stumbling blocks, areas for deeper explanations etc. (and based on the students in the room) so as a result ever lesson is fine tuned base on those past experiences and slightly unique.

Unfortunately funding is only ever available to deliver beginners courses in GM (and recent funding cuts have slashed some recent classes), ideally I would like to progress to more advanced topics and therefore decided to move my beginners course online and then (time permitting) expand it further than I could in a classroom.

Edited by David Batty, 12 August 2012 - 01:50 PM.

[joihnsonlee]

ok, how far are u from finishing because i can't wait for u to finish!!!!!

[David Batty]

I have a project to get training material ready for teachers for September, that has to come first and the GM has to take a back seat. There are changes to the way computers are taught in schools and there are a lot of computer teachers who are not capable of delivering anything to do with computer science, they need training and mentoring, and so working on that project has to happen and GM will follow on afterwards, so I would not wait, I would instead buy some of the great books on the subject such as the GameMakers Companion, or borrow them from the library if you can't afford to buy them.

[Noritox]

http://wizirdi.com/e...nner-tutorials/ Here ya be!

[kalmarx]

are there any online courses for game maker? like http://www.icslearn.co.uk?

http://gamecreationacademy.com/

[joihnsonlee]

http://gamecreationacademy.com/ is not working please help? or tell me when fixed?

[kalmarx]

http://gamecreationacademy.com/ is not working please help? or tell me when fixed?

It has been fixed, the web host changed something on the server that brought the site down. Should be working now.

[Debels]

http://gamecreationacademy.com/

An online course that requires registering?, that is really stupid from there part.

Also only 5 tutorials including the "how to install Game Maker", I just had a quick look at it since I'm not willing to register to check how I would review this site, but that's only my opinion about it.

[kalmarx]

http://gamecreationacademy.com/

An online course that requires registering?, that is really stupid from there part.

Also only 5 tutorials including the "how to install Game Maker", I just had a quick look at it since I'm not willing to register to check how I would review this site, but that's only my opinion about it.

I guess I don't understand why registering is really stupid? You had to register to post to this site. I have put a lot of hours into creating the tutorials. They are for school-age children and are very complete, step-by-step videos with explanations of programming. Registering allows me to see how many users I have and allows the students to use a dashboard to keep track of where they are in the tutorials. Teachers can use the site for students to learn GameMaker without having to know it themselves (home schoolers found the site very useful). If registering is too much of a burden, by all means don't use the site. But I'd rather you not insult the site without really having looked at it and for such a minor reason.

As to the video on installing GameMaker, the site is for novices who may not understand how to get their computer set up to use GameMaker or the tutorials (which use specific resources that I provide). If you don't need that tutorial, you can, of course, ignore it. I've been teaching kids GameMaker for 10 years and the tutorials are very complete and people have found them to be useful. They are not for people who know GameMaker well and I hope others find them useful. But if you don't need the tutorials, I guess I don't understand why you feel the need to discourage others from using the site.

[Debels]

http://gamecreationacademy.com/

An online course that requires registering?, that is really stupid from there part.

Also only 5 tutorials including the "how to install Game Maker", I just had a quick look at it since I'm not willing to register to check how I would review this site, but that's only my opinion about it.

I guess I don't understand why registering is really stupid? You had to register to post to this site. I have put a lot of hours into creating the tutorials. They are for school-age children and are very complete, step-by-step videos with explanations of programming. Registering allows me to see how many users I have and allows the students to use a dashboard to keep track of where they are in the tutorials. Teachers can use the site for students to learn GameMaker without having to know it themselves (home schoolers found the site very useful). If registering is too much of a burden, by all means don't use the site. But I'd rather you not insult the site without really having looked at it and for such a minor reason.

As to the video on installing GameMaker, the site is for novices who may not understand how to get their computer set up to use GameMaker or the tutorials (which use specific resources that I provide). If you don't need that tutorial, you can, of course, ignore it. I've been teaching kids GameMaker for 10 years and the tutorials are very complete and people have found them to be useful. They are not for people who know GameMaker well and I hope others find them useful. But if you don't need the tutorials, I guess I don't understand why you feel the need to discourage others from using the site.

First i never insulted you website , i just said "Requiring registering is stupid", not "the site is stupid", so don't accuse me from something i didn't do

I never discouraged any one to see/join your site, I just gave my opinion about it

[nikkiburke]

I haven't the slightest idea but thanks for the link!