Oct. 13, 2010: Creating Art for Video Games

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Activities:

1. Make a poster showing at least three of your favorite video games. Write words that describe the games around the edges of the poster.

2. Choose two video games from newspaper ads. Explain why you'd like to play them.

3. Select a newspaper photo of a place. Explain why the place would make a good setting for a game.

4. Who creates these parts of a video game: (a) noises, (b) story line, (c) visual setting, and (d) moving images?

5. Design a video game using three comic strip characters. Describe the story for your game. Draw a picture of your characters in the game.

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them. This week's standard:

• Students understand there are various purposes for creating works of visual art. (Visual Arts)
  
  

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)