Since the dawn of time (well, depending on who you ask, since around 1952) video games have had art and graphics to display all kinds of things, from players, to enemies, to backgrounds! They’re such an important part of the process of experiencing games it’s literally half of their name. 

While we mostly refer to our clubs as “coding clubs,” they’re often actually more game design clubs focusing more on the whole game making process. Part of the process of  making games is the designing of graphics, something we love to encourage our members to do!

How We Use Art In Club

Building Computer Literacy

This has multiple benefits for all of our members, for our younger members it’s a chance to improve their mouse skills to further build on computer literacy!

For our older members that maybe are thinking about becoming game developers or designers it gives a chance to learn a little bit more about the game making process and things that are needed to make a finished game!

Using Art To Develop Ideas

We love encouraging our members to play around with editing graphics as it can be a great way of getting ideas flowing!

For example, let's say you have a game with a plane in it, if you change that game into a glider maybe it gives you the idea to try making a mechanic where you need to find updrafts to keep yourself in the air!

Overall we think that the graphical side of game making is super cool, and we encourage everyone else to think the same!

Is your child ready to flex their creative muscles? Let them give game designing a go with a FREE taster session in one of our clubs!