Here you will find Digital Technology resources for the New Zealand Digital Technology Curriculum.
Check out the links below for courses for each year level or the Progress Outcomes for content related to each Progress Outcome in Designing and Developing Digital Outcomes or Computational Thinking.
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The majority of this work is focused on Game Design and Development.
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First make sure that you have created an account on itch.io Click on your username and then Upload New Project Fill in the details. Note […]
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This guide will update a score (+2) if the player destroys an obstacle. If the player gets more than five points they have won / […]
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We will create a main menu scene to allow the user to start the game and see other details. There is a guide here to […]
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We have used basic placeholder graphics to incorporate some key features into our first level. However this is not very efficient and has resulted in […]
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This continues on from part 5. Make sure that you have an obstacle or object that you wish to move. added to a scene. In […]
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This tutorial continues form part 4 where we created an obstacle that kills a player. Layers and Masks In order to manage multiple collisions we […]
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This is part 4 of the Godot 2D Platformer series. This continues on from part 3. The focus of this part of the tutorial is […]
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This continues from Part 2 but can be completed using Part 1. We are going to add a Area 2D and sprite to the bottom […]
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This guide continues from Part 1. In this part we will add audio to our game. This will involve adding music to the main level […]
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Guide to building a platform game in Godot
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Make sure that you have installed OpenJDK and the Android SDK first. See here for how to do that. Go to Project > Install Android […]
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APKs (Android Package) are a file format that is used to distribute Android Applications. Android has the advantage that you can create your own APKs […]
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Godot is able to export builds for multiple platforms. Check out the official documentation here for exporting to Android. Android exports require more effort than […]