Computer Games Development Teaching Method And Toolsets Comparison With Case Studies

Education in the area of game development is still relatively new, but growing. Through recent years more and more universities have started video game development courses. Thus, it's important to discuss methods and tools that help us achieve the best results when teaching students how to develop video games.In this paper, we discuss toolset and techniques that we found particularly useful when teaching game development with game engines. Case studies used and analyzed for the purposes of the article involve students of Art Faculty at University of Silesia and Computer Science Faculty at University of Dabrowa Gornicza.The authors input and insight comes from working as a lecturers and educators of computer science - related areas, as well as industry-level specialists in the field of mobile and modern game technologies.