Design and Development of a 2D Video Game to Learn the Basics of Programming

Abstract

This project consists on developing an educational videogame whose purpose, as I mentioned before is to teach the basics of programming while solving puzzles. In order to solve the puzzles, the player will form a sequence of commands indicating the path the character must follow. Each level will be composed by cells that will form a pattern and the commands would be introduced in a program, a function and a loop. Therefore, the player will develop the skill of planning, calling loops, and functions from the main program in case the player detects the patterns in the level. Finally, when the program is finished, the player will be able to run it and check if the plan was correct watching the character reaching the goal. The videogame is going to be developed using Unity3D and it will be available in touch-based devices in a vertical layout.