Yes, we know that GameMaker is an effective tool for teaching game design, computer science, and programming. But have you ever considered what other critical skills teaching game design can develop? When creating a game students enhance their critical thinking, collaboration, time management, communication, creativity, and time management skills.

Why Choose GameMaker for Education?

GameMaker is an ideal tool for adding game design into your lessons. This 2D game design engine offers your students the ability to create games in one of two ways utilizing visual or code-based programming.

1. Students can easily create games quickly even if they do not know how to code with GML Visual. GML Visual allows the user to create a game using pre-coded building blocks.
2. For students who are familiar with programming or learning to program, GML Code gives them full control of their creation by allowing them to write their own game code.

Inspiration for Education

You can do much more with GameMaker for Education. Help students better connect to the content they are learning with games! In addition to teaching programming, game design, and technology, you can also use games to support learning in a variety of subjects. These subjects include language arts, geography, history, philosophy, and religion.

Sid Meier’s Civilization VI, developed by Firaxis Games

Adding a game design element to classroom learning is an effective way to engage students. If you are teaching challenging subjects, consider gamifying your lessons to get students more dialed into your content. Games can help you gain and keep your students’ attention.

To be clear, we are not simply suggesting another fun activity for your students play a game. You can easily create a game that addresses key lesson points or have your students complete a project where they create the game that showcases their understanding of the information. Students will need to dig into and research the lesson’s topics. During the process, they build a better understanding of the material. It is empowering for students to because they need to be creative and decide how they want to present and explore the topic. Giving your students control how they create the game brings a sense of excitement while they are actively learning. Please note: GameMaker is not for students under the age of 13.

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Classroom Licensing Options

There are two types of licenses available for classrooms:

• Educator License – This license allows students to export games for Mac, Windows, and Linux desktop platforms.
• Achiever License – If you are looking to have students explore to more platforms, the Achiever license allows students to export games to desktop, web, UWP, and mobile platforms.

GameMaker Teaching Resources

GameMaker provides a variety of in-depth written and video tutorials and publishes a variety of blog articles with helpful information. If you are looking to help solve a problem or get inspiration the GameMaker Community is another helpful resource. If you are interesting in bringing this powerful solutions to your classroom or need further information, please contact Studica for assistance in the USA.