Welcome to the NSBGaming Program!
It is a mistake to assume that a course named "Game and Simulation" is a 52-minute excuse to zone out during your school day and play the latest on-line games or view "cool" YouTube videos while getting an easy grade. Many first-year students make that mistake and quickly come to the horrifing realization that actual work is expected from them. Unfortunately, this misunderstanding is the number one reason that about fifty percent of first-year students do not return for a second year in the program.
The business of putting together a video game is very serious. For the latest Xbox or Playstation games to be published requires in-depth knowledge of science and mathematics. With these tools in hand, artists and computer programmers spend thousands of combined hours working very hard to create an incredible game play experience.
Even a "simple" on-line game at a site such as Addicting Games may require 100 or more hours of work in order to bring it to "life."
For this reason, consider yourself warned! Game and Simulation is not for the faint of heart! Every minute that you are in the classroom, you will be engaged in learning techniques required to make you a successful digtal artist or computer programmer. It is not a "fluff" course and you will not be given a grade just for showing up. You will work and work HARD! Anyone who does not will be left behind!
This website is meant as an addition to the information provided to students and parents on planbook. I manage to stay fairly up to date on lesson plans, however, I feel that a list of daily activities is not really an accurate picture of the activities going on in in the classroom. On these pages I will be able to post games that the students make, videos that they create, pictures of the projects that they have completed for class. First names may be attached to the work, but I will remove the last names to protect the students' identities.