 Description
The Ignition Game Design Academy is a comprehensive curriculum that teaches the student real-world game engine principles and what it takes to create a game level. It demonstrates the processes involved in exporting game art from 3ds Max® to a game engine environment in a quick and easy way, but also teaches the concepts and connections between game art and a game engine. The curriculum shows students how to write scripts that enable rich gaming features such as lighting, particle systems, sound, game play, user interaction, and character behaviors.
Academic Standards
Applied IDEAS has mapped this curriculum to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards, the national Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) language art standards, the National Council for Science Education Standards Assessment (NCSESA), and the International Technical Educators Association (ITEA), for technology standards.
Teacher Resources
Syllabus
Student Exercises and Quiz Questions
Evaluation Rubrics
Glossary
Quick-Start Guides
Separate teacher training seminars (Professional Development) for an additional cost |
 IGDAC Evaluation
For Educators wishing to evaluate the curriculum, please downoad the following PowerPoint presentation. Unzip the file and run IGDAC Presentation.pps. If you do not have PowerPoint, a PowerPoint viewer is provided in the zip.
The presentation contains links to various files, such as the Glossary, Troubleshooting Guide, Syllabus, Sample Student Guide and the Teachers Guide. If you have any further questions, please contact us.
Game Academy Streaming Demonstration Movie
Game Academy Power Point Presentation
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About Applied Ideas
Applied IDEAS mission is to provide outstanding resources and services in the areas of training, production, and custom software for the 3D community.
They take immense pride in the quality of their work, and have become a recognized industry leader of the field of 3D.
Applied IDEAS is responsible for writing many of the Courseware and Advanced Courseware modules for discreet (Autodesk), and continues to develop their own outstanding training materials.
They work in conjunction with other industry leaders in developing 3D software and related components to help push the state of the art.
Kenneth C. Maffei, Ph.D, CEO
Pia Maffei, President |
