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Minecraft Game Design

Students will use Minecraft Education Edition to create their own 5-minute video game.

Minecraft Game Picture

Main Event

Event Description

Teams of 2 – 4 students will design and program a video game that is both fun and challenging using Minecraft: Education Edition (available in the FUSD Software Center). The game should take approximately 5 minutes to play. The final project must be uploaded by 10:00 pm on March 15, 2024, to the TOT App Submission Portal.

Common Core Standards and 4 C’s

Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving.

Designing and Creating Your Project

The process of creating your project should take the following steps:

  • Sketch out an idea of what your game/world will look like. 
  • Build a world for your game to take place in. 
  • Start with a simple objective/goal and then add to it later if needed. Add a challenge to make the game more difficult and entertaining. 

Technical Requirements

The final project must be uploaded as a zipped file by 10:00 pm on March 15, 2024, to the TOT App Submission Portal.

(Right-click the Word file and select Send to > Compressed (zipped) folder) 

  • Must use Minecraft Education Edition and be playable with 2-6 players. 
  • Must be entirely original work, start with Blocks of Grass template. 
  • Project and content must be appropriate for school use. 
  • The game should take approximately 5 minutes to play. 

Live Challenge

Scenario

Your team of programmers has been hired to help test out a new video game, but the game has some major errors and needs some serious help. You must quickly identify 3 errors in the game design and then implement a creative solution for each mistake. Then your team will present the modified game to the client (judges) to demonstrate the corrections and explain how these changes improve the game.

Challenge

  • Identify 3 errors in the game design and work together to correct the errors. 3v3 game matches instead?
  • Plan a quick presentation to show the judges how you fixed the errors and improved the game.

Possible errors include (but are not limited to)

  • No initial spawn point
  • No scoreboard
  • No directions at the start
  • Commands are not working
  • Teleporting to the wrong area
  • NPC giving wrong commands

Time

Your team will have:

  • 15 minutes to edit the Minecraft game AND plan a presentation
  • 3 minutes to present your modified program to the judges and explain the corrections

Scoring

You will receive up to:

 6 pts  Team Collaboration while editing the Minecraft game.
 6 pts  Successfully correcting the errors in the Minecraft game.
 6 pts  The creativity of your corrections to the Minecraft game.
 6 pts  Explanation of your corrections to the judges.
 6 pts  Incorporating all team members into the presentation.

Tips

As with most of the Live Event challenges, teams will need to be very careful with time management. They should allocate at least a few minutes to review what they did and prepare for the presentation to the judges. It is highly recommended that a note taker is chosen to keep track of what changes are made so that a clear and concise presentation can be made.

Getting Help

Contact Robert Donat at robert.donat@fresnounified.org or Chris Fuge at Chris.Fuge@fresnounified.org if you have any further questions about this event.

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