With over eight hours of video tutorials as well as a wealth of supporting materials, Little Town provides a robust framework for educators with teaching guidelines and assessment criteria with which colleges and universities can effectively start teaching game design to their students. Users will also be able to choose where to hide each item, as well as writing their own hints and dialogue. The tutorial enables students, hobbyists and new game designers to create their own layout for Little Town and use code to bring it and its people to life. By following clues players must find the right items and bring them to one of the town’s three characters – the Baker, Teacher and Grocer. Little Town is an adventure game in which players control a child in an idyllic small town. The interactive game-building tutorial provides a robust framework for educators with teaching guidelines and assessment criteria with which colleges and universities can effectively start teaching game design to their students.ġ0th May 2021, Edinburgh: YoYo Games today announced the launch of Little Town – a major new game-making tutorial which teaches students and hobbyists game development with GameMaker Studio 2, the world’s leading 2D game development engine.ĭeveloped in collaboration with award-winning game developer and university lecturer, Benjamin Rivers, Little Town has been designed to help new game designers quickly learn the core functionality of GameMaker Studio 2 in a natural, fun way.
By building a game to control a child in an idyllic small town, players learn how to design games and develop key coding skills Little Town provides an introduction to the principles of game development using GameMaker to college and university students.