All Classes: Interested in a Career in Mobile Game Development?

This isn't English/Yearbook related, but it does fall under the categories of "free" and "things you should think about."


If you are interested in a career designing games for mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, Android devices, etc.), there's a free seven-week course being offered by LiveCode.

Lessons include:

• Game design considerations


• Coding basic gameplay


• Animating game pieces (eg. Manipulating sprites)


• Working with layers and backgrounds


• Optimizing your game performance


• Managing different devices and resolutions on iOS and Android


• Deploying to your iOS or Android device


• Marketing your game


• Going social: integrating Facebook and other social networks into your game


• Game business models: Freemium (free with in-app purchases) and paid


• Submitting to the app store and Android marketplace

I encourage all of you to consider at least checking this out, even if you don't think it's the sort of thing you'd be interested in as a career. If you're concerned about not having enough options in life, this is an opportunity to increase those options at no cost to you. That doesn't happen often.