ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Game Design and Implementation has been offered at Capital Region BOCES for almost a decade, created after a demand for developers in the area according to Astra Wijaya. He teaches his students the ins and outs of the field as well as sets job expectations.
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“You have the opportunity to work with a small team,” Wijaya said. “For example, your friends, and make an independent group. Work for bigger companies such as Blizzard Albany, the game scene in Montreal for example…New York City is pretty close.”
Students start with pen and paper, then transform board games into virtual programs using coding. Now in their second year, Michael Satterlee and Mikkail Warner are working together on a puzzle game.
“This has been everything to me. I’ve done the majority of the level design in it, creating the levels, putting the blocks into place for what it’s gonna look like,” described Satterlee.
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“And in that game, I built mostly an inventory script the entire time. I think a couple thousand lines of code went into it,” explained Warner…