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Scholarships

SDCTx has several need-based scholarships available to reduce the cost of attendance to our Summer Design Institutes. For students to be considered for a scholarship, please make sure that during the application process you are ready to provide official evidence of eligibility for the Free or Reduced Lunch plan at your school OR official evidence of qualification to receive Medicaid benefits. This evidence must be uploaded in .pdf form when prompted. Once again, thank you for your interest in our summer camps!

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2020 Online Game Design Summer Institute

Student working on a game at a computer

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DATES
Game Design - Virtual Camp
June 15 - June 19, 2020 (1 week)
Prerequisite: None

TIMES
10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. CST
Monday - Friday

LOCATION
Online via Zoom

UT AUSTIN FACULTY
Professor MJ Johns, Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies

WHO
Students ages 14-18 and/or enrolled in high school

PRICE
Game Design - Virtual Camp
Early bird (May 15th deadline): $399
Regular (May 16th - May 31st): $449

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ABOUT THE INSTITUTES

Game Design
The Game Design camp will tackle the full process of game development, starting with ideation and concept development, sketching layouts, creating a "whitebox" to preview the space in 3D, importing art and sound assets to the Unity game engine, and using C# to script basic gameplay elements like locked doors and traps. At the end of the camp, each camper will have created a complete playable game of their own design which they can use as a portfolio piece when applying for college.

No prior experience is required.

PORTFOLIO PREPARATION
 
Upon finishing this course, students will have built and designed a completed game to use as a portfolio piece when applying to colleges.

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2019 Game Design Summer Institute

two high school students play a video game they designed on a desktop computer at SDCT's 2019 Game Design Summer Institute at UT Austin
a high school student leans over a computer to play a video game created at the 2019 SDCTx Game Design Summer Institute at the University of Texas at Austin
at a row of desktop computers, high school students look at the monitors and play video games created at the 2019 SDCTx Game Design Summer Institute
two high school students smile and laugh as they play a video game they created at the 2019 SDCTx Game Design Summer Institute
a high school student leans over a computer and laughs as he watches another student play their original video game created at the 2019 SDCTx Game Design Summer Institute
a group of high school students present their original video game to their parents at the 2019 SDCTx Game Design Summer Institute showcase
a group of high school students present their original video game to their parents at the 2019 SDCTx Game Design Summer Institute showcase
the 2019 SDCTx Game Design Summer Institute cohort of high school students raise the
a high school student demonstrates their original video game to their mother at the 2019 SDCTx Game Design Summer Institute
a high school student demonstrates their original video game to their mother at the 2019 SDCTx Game Design Summer Institute
students playing games they designed on computers at 2019 game design summer camp
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