Collin College offers video game design course

by John P. Meyer

Collin College has announced a new course called Video Game Design Basics to be offered through their College of Continuing Education, with classes to be held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from Oct. 23 - Nov. 15. The 24 classroom hours of instruction will set you back $259 (or 12 sacks of golden drachmas, if you happen to have picked them up from the darkened tunnel floor as you navigated through the minotaur's maze... wait, wrong reality).

Using Quake 4 as a teaching template, participants will explore the basics of 3D modeling, animation and motion graphics while learning how to add textures and game elements (doors, effects, monsters, exploding body parts, etc.). Those signing up for the course should be conversant in 3D-first person gaming on the Windows/PC platform. (Sorry, Mac folks.) Classes will be held in Plano at the Courtyard Center for Professional and Economic Development.

As a follow-up, there will be a spring semester course offering in Intermediate Video Game Design for an identical cost and time commitment.

Further information can be obtained by calling 972-985-3753, or by fighting one's way into the seventh-level dungeon (I mean, accessing the CCCCD website) here.