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Thursday, 28 February 2013

CCC4KIDS Project One Platform Game

I have been working with the wonderful and talented students from St. Helens primary school in Ipswich to learn about, design and make a platform video game. I am very pleased with both their hard work and their "professional" attitude of setting up "pretend" video game companies. The 16 students were taken on a course of the history of video games, design concepts of video games and basic computer art to produce the wonderful game you see below. They then divided themselves up in to four groups and produced one level of their game as a proof of concept for it.

This is the first project for CCC4KIDS aimed at getting children aged 7-11 interested in being creative with technology. Sincerest thanks to Mr. Babbs, Mr. Budd and St. Helens primary for letting us host the club at the school. I look forward to running many more exciting projects with them in the future.

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Digital Illustration session four of four.

It was the last session of Digital Illustration today and the results were just amazing. Over the course of four weeks (6 hours total) we got them to learn how images were made up of basic shapes, we got them to sketch, ink, scan and colour in those images. I am really impressed with the work. Here are just two of the examples.

I am so impressed with the whole group, they really put a lot of effort in and achieved great things. For a lot of them it was mainly about slowing down and really taking your time with the image.

Next week, we start electronics.

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Donations and Creative Computing Club Sponsors

Please Donate

Please consider donating to help fund this project, even small amounts go a long way to help change these kids lives and their understanding of technology.

Company Sponsors

I am truly pleased to announce that YoYo Games have sponsored the club by providing copies of their amazing Game Maker and Game Maker HTML5 software. Having access to this excellent software not only means we can make great games but share them with the world. Thank you so much to all the staff at YoYo Games for making this possible.

We are also very pleased to announce that O'Reilly have offered assistance by way of some of their instructional books you can check out their full catalog of books here. O'Reilly have a great reputation with things like the Maker Faire (they also run a Maker Faire in the UK too) so we are truly grateful for their help and support through their excellent resources.

It is a huge honor to have the support of Young Rewired State not only do they run amazing events to encourage young people to code and hack data for good, they were in part inspiration for me to set up this group. The fun and the comradery of the events that I have worked with them at have been of amazing benefit to all those involved. I sincerely thank Young Rewired State not only for helping fund us but also for simply being Young Rewired State.

I am really pleased to announce that Rapid Electronics supplier of electronic components, equipment and educational kits have decided to help out the Creative Computing Club. It is genuinely appreciated to have this local and leading UK distributor supporting us not only with vital components but years of knowledge and experience. Thank you all at Rapid.

Huge thanks to loveelectronics.co.uk for donating some Arduino ADK and Ethernet boards to the Creative Computing Club allowing us to connect our electronics projects to Android phones and the internet. Check out the great range of breakout boards, sensors and wireless products here.

Creative Commons License

All Creative Computer Club Resources by Matthew C. Applegate are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. Please note that some of these resources also contain images of software that is protected by copyright and are used under special agreement with these software companies, they are therefore are not covered by the Creative Commons License. The text is free to download, use, edit and redistribute, the images are free to download and use as is, unfortunately they are not available to edit and redistribute. You can find the resources page here.