Exploring Tabletop Game Design
One-Week Workshop, Dates Offered:
- Session 2B (July 12-16, 2027) @ Cascadia
- Session 5A (August 16-20, 2027) @ DigiPen
Early Bird Tuition: $899 $719.20
Every great game begins long before anyone touches a screen. Board games, card games, and playground classics like tag and hopscotch all follow the same building blocks as video games: rules, goals, challenges, and the fun of figuring things out. Learning to design games teaches young minds to think in steps, spot patterns, and solve problems, all while laughing, moving, and playing together.
Explorers will step inside their games as they invent board games, giant floor mazes, and active challenges using cards, dice, chalk, and craft materials. Along the way, they’ll “program” one another with arrow cards, hunt down and fix “bugs” in their rules, and discover how coders give instructions. Through playtesting with friends and improving their ideas, students build their own unique ProjectFUN game, a hands-on creation they can play, share, and bring home to enjoy with family.
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- What makes a game fun
- Playtesting, teamwork, and improving ideas from feedback
- Conditional thinking
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- Designing and playing a giant life-sized board game on the floor
- Creating an original card or dice game with custom rules
Well organized and flawlessly executed! I would absolutely recommend this program to others.
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