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Check out a few of the games that students in our Online Game Design course learn how to make! (This course has been named a 2010 CODiE award finalist.)

Dragon Tamer, a maze game with collection items and enemies with artificial intelligence.

Space Scavenger, a vertical scrolling space game with continually increasing difficulty.

Robot Rescue, a game with rooms to explore, items to collect, and a friend robot that follows the player.

SEATTLE — March 1, 2010 — Giant Campus, the nationally recognized leader in innovative technology education programs for youth and adults, today announced the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) has named the company’s Online Game Design course a finalist for the prestigious CODiE Awards in the Best Instructional Solution in Other Curriculum Areas category. The Online Game Design course, available through licensees, Giant Campus Academy, and tuition-free Giant Campus of Washington, teaches high school students how to design Adobe® Flash® games for online play. Student enrollment for this Giant Campus course has grown more than 300 percent from 2009 to 2010.

Read more of the release here: http://www.giantcampus.com/about/press-room/articletype/articleview/articleid/71

Ever played Bejeweled, Tetris, Snake, or Frogger online? Check out our video for our Online Game Design course (this course has been named a 2010 CODiE award finalist) and see what it takes to develop  these type of games.