CS50's Introduction to Game Development

In a quest to understand how video games themselves are implemented, you'll explore the design of such childhood games as:

• Super Mario Bros.
• Pong
• Flappy Bird
• Breakout
• Match 3
• Legend of Zelda
• Angry Birds
• Pokémon
• 3D Helicopter Game
• Dreadhalls
• Portal

Via lectures and hands-on projects, the course explores principles of 2D and 3D graphics, animation, sound, and collision detection using frameworks like Unity and LÖVE 2D, as well as languages like Lua and C#. By class’s end,you'llhave programmed several ofyour own games and gained a thorough understanding of the basics of game design and development.