MADE Classroom: Free Saturday Game Design and Digital Creator Classes

Age: 8 to 13

Join us each Saturday to learn the skills and know-how to become a digital creators and design games! Ages 8 to 13

Upcoming Subjects:

10/04/2025 - Computer Graphics 101

How do you make a computer draw pictures? Our teachers walk through how programmers create pictures with math and code! In this class, students will develop their geometric intuition as it relates to homogeneous coordinates and their relationship to camera projection.

Students will learn:

How to draw with one point perspective

How to visualize objects converging to vanishing points

How early 3D video games use raycasting to simulate perspective


10/11/2025 - Circuit Bird: A Silly Flight Powered by Wires and Wonder
Special Class !

10/18/2025 - TBD

We will teach a class on digital creation, stay posted for what subject!

Subjects (in no particular order):

Character Design
Animation
Music
Sound Effects
Level Design
Game Critique
Gameplay and Flow
Computer Graphics
Perspective Drawing
Storytelling

Peripherals

This class is a 1.5 hour lesson that teaches students the history and thought process behind the design of gaming peripherals through history. Students will learn about how gaming controllers are made and have an understanding of how to approach making a controller of their own.

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