Philip Conrod Will Teach Our Introduction to Game Design Course Live and In-Person at Northwest University in Fall 2026 School Year
Philip Conrod will be teaching the GAME 2023 – Introduction to Game Design course live and in-person at Northwest University in Kirkland, Washington Fall 2026. The GAME-3023 course introduces students to the art and theory of video games, as well as the basic aspects of game development, such as programming, engines and platforms, art design, audio design, and narrative design. Through surveying seminal readings in Game Studies and playing thought-provoking games, students explore the unique ways in which games create meaning, craft experiences, and tell stories. Philip will be teaching the class using our Introduction to Unity 3D with C# – The Exodus Adventure Game Design step-by-step textbook tutorial for Unity.
Students will learn how to build a high-quality 3rd Person 3D Puzzle Adventure game based on the Book of Exodus. Students will be provided high quality Egyptian Era 3D Character models and 3D Environment models to work with. We also provide a game soundtrack complete with stingers and combat music for the students to use. Students will learn how to design, develop and build a 3D Bible Adventure Game using Unity 3D with the following game mechanics:
– 3rd person controller using mecanim that can walk, run, jump, turn, crouch, and interact with objects
– Interact with actors and objects
– Display Dialogue to the player
– Item Management
– Main Quests to advance the plot
– Side Quests to immerse the player in the times
– Explore the environment
– Full screen map and mini-map showing key locations
– Quest Journal to manage quests
– Solve a variety of puzzles
– Cut-scenes for dialogue without player intervention
– 2 Cinematic for Game Opening and Ending
– 3D Character Models using the Unity Multipurpose Avatar (UMA)
Students will also learn how Kris Murray & Philip Conrod adaped Kris Murray’s historical Christian Fiction novel, Exodus:God of the Slaves, into the PC/Mac Exodus Vigil Video Game using video game story telling, cinematic cutscenes, challenging puzzles, endless mazes and engaging voice acting to bring the Exodus story alive in a fun video game.
Click here to learn more about the Video Game Design & Development courses at Northwest University in Kirkland, Washington.
“Today’s game studios spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on artists and designers to create modern games. So how does one go about creating such a game on their own or learn the tools that the studios use? That is where this Introduction to Unity 3D C# tutorial textbook comes in. It opens up the world of Unity 3D and provides all the game assets of art and scripting to create a real masterpiece of a game. As a nascent game creator you will be shown how to take full advantage of the Unity 3D system to build the game, then you will also have all the assets of that game to use in your own creations later. You are starting an incredible journey where you are going be learn the tools you need to make games. Once you have that foundation, you will be limited only by your own imagination! You have a great deal of fun waiting for you in the pages of this textbook. Happy Adventuring!” – Scott Adams, www.msadams.com
