Spring Break

Game Design Lab

Brand new to game design? Kick off your game design journey at our annual Spring Break Game Design Lab. You will remix and publish your own platformer arcade game with original art, music, and characters in just 3 days. Get hands-on with industry game development tools, including Unity3D. Lunch will be provided!

Details

Pre-requisites:

None!

Schedule:

3 days, 10am-4pm:

Tuesday, April 15
Wednesday, April 16
Thursday, April 17

Location:

The Urban Arts Learning Lab, near Union Square.

Eligibility:

For 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students only.

What You Will Learn:

Pixel Art & Sprite Animation
Digital music & FX
Game Design basics
Intro to the Unity3D game engine

Level Up:

This program is a great entryway for you to apply for our Summer Game Academy program.

Course Map

Unity & C# Coding

In weekly coding lessons, you will replicate, modify and create mini-games to learn the fundamentals of programming.

Art Forms

You will also learn one of four essential art forms weekly:

Game design & theory
Narrative & storytelling
Pixel art & animation
Music & Sound FX

Final Project

Your final project will be a game prototype, designed by you from scratch – including original art, music, narrative and code.

Play games made by students in each level of Game Academy here.

The Game Academy Journey

2D Game Dev (Start here after the Lab!)

Create 2D games with Unity
Intro to C# programming
Game design theory
Characters + narrative
Music + SFX
Pixel art

3D Game Dev

Create 3D games with Unity
Advanced C# programming
3D Art / CAD with Blender
Team game design
College access & mentoring

Game Studio Capstone

Plan and run your own game studio
Choose a role: Creative director, Art director, Lead programmer, Project manager etc.
College app & scholarship support
Industry Mentors

Are you ready to make games?

This program is fully enrolled for 2025. To get notified for next year, sign up for our mailing below: