June 13 – August 1, 2023 • Grades 8-12
Game Design

Develop your very own board game — learn from a professional game designer, build an original game concept, and gain all the tools necessary to crowdfund or pitch your game to a company!

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Good grades and impressive test scores are important, but top colleges are looking for students with depth, passion, and defined interests.If you want to open the door to your dream college... 

  Unique extracurricular activities are the key.

LEAD: Game Design is a fun and unique extracurricular program that helps students build collaboration skills, learn how to plan and complete a project, develop meaningful interests, and display creativity and curiosity on college applications.

Learn From an Experienced Professional Game Designer

Rob Chew is the founder and chief creative engineer at Gap Closer Games. He is a UCLA graduate and the lead designer of Rival Restaurants, Rival Restaurants: Back for Seconds Expansion, and Illiterati.

Gap Closer Games has 25,000 units in circulation and has generated over $1M in gross sales. Mr. Chew has over 12 years of experience working with and coaching young people on how to work, collaborate and give presentations in creative team-based environments.

Build an Original Game & Gain Valuable Collaboration Skills

Game Design will teach you how to design a board game in a team-based setting and provide you with the basic skills, knowledge and tools to design a board game that is attractive and marketable.

Students will work and collaborate together in small breakout teams in order to build and develop a fully functional board game. You will learn how to make creative decisions at the “marketplace of ideas” and delegate workflow as you work toward the completion of a board game.

Pitch Your Game to Win a Game Design Competition

Learn how to develop and weave together the component parts of a board game, which are: (1) theme, (2) gameplay, (3) components, (4) instructions and (5) visuals—and discover what it takes to actually pitch, produce, demo, and market a game.

The program will culminate in a CFGL board game design competition, in which student teams will present their game to a panel of board game industry professionals who will judge the new game concepts based on creativity, playability, and marketability.

Students will take away:

A digital prototype of their original board game
A working draft of an instruction manual
The knowledge and building blocks necessary to crowdfund or pitch their new game to a board game company
Invaluable experience that can be incorporated in college applications and college essays
The chance to win an exclusive CFGL game-design competition
An official certificate of achievement

Game Design

Open to students in grades 9–12 // Online classes // No prior experience necessary

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June 13 – Aug 1, 2023

    Space is Limited — Enroll Today!
  
   Weekly Class

Tuesdays | 3:30pm–5:30pm PT

Ready to get started?

Fill out the form below, and we’ll get back to you with tuition information and answers to your questions as soon as possible! You can also contact us directly at (714) 974-0484.

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June 13 – August 1, 2023 • Grades 8-12
Game Design

Good grades and impressive test scores are important, but top colleges are looking for students with depth, passion, and defined interests.

If you want to open the door to your dream college...

Unique extracurricular activities are the key.

LEAD: Game Design is a fun and unique extracurricular program that helps students build collaboration skills, learn how to plan and complete a project, develop meaningful interests, and display creativity and curiosity on college applications.

Learn From an Experienced Professional Game Designer

Rob Chew is the founder and chief creative engineer at Gap Closer Games. He is a UCLA graduate and the lead designer of Rival Restaurants, Rival Restaurants: Back for Seconds Expansion, and Illiterati.

Gap Closer Games has 25,000 units in circulation and has generated over $1M in gross sales. Mr. Chew has over 12 years of experience working with and coaching young people on how to work, collaborate and give presentations in creative team-based environments.

Build an Original Game & Gain Valuable Collaboration Skills

Game Design will teach you how to design a board game in a team-based setting and provide you with the basic skills, knowledge and tools to design a board game that is attractive and marketable.

Students will work and collaborate together in small breakout teams in order to build and develop a fully functional board game. You will learn how to make creative decisions at the “marketplace of ideas” and delegate workflow as you work toward the completion of a board game.

Pitch Your Game to Win a Game Design Competition

Learn how to develop and weave together the component parts of a board game, which are: (1) theme, (2) gameplay, (3) components, (4) instructions and (5) visuals—and discover what it takes to actually pitch, produce, demo, and market a game.

The program will culminate in a CFGL board game design competition, in which student teams will present their game to a panel of board game industry professionals who will judge the new game concepts based on creativity, playability, and marketability.

Students will take away:

A digital prototype of their original board game

A working draft of an instruction manual

The knowledge and building blocks necessary to crowdfund or pitch their new game to a board game company

Invaluable experience that can be incorporated in college applications and college essays

The chance to win an exclusive CFGL game-design competition

An official certificate of achievement

Game Design

Open to students in grades 9–12 // Online classes // No prior experience necessary

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June 13 – Aug 1, 2023
Space is Limited — Enroll Today!

Weekly Class
Tuesdays | 3:30pm–5:30pm PT

Ready to get started?

Fill out the form below, and we’ll get back to you with tuition information and answers to your questions as soon as possible! You can also contact us directly at (714) 974-0484.

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June 13 – August 1, 2023 • Grades 8-12Game Design

Good grades and impressive test scores are important, but top colleges are looking for students with depth, passion, and defined interests.

If you want to open the door to your dream college...

Unique extracurricular activities are the key.

LEAD: Game Design is a fun and unique extracurricular program that helps students build collaboration skills, learn how to plan and complete a project, develop meaningful interests, and display creativity and curiosity on college applications.

Learn From an Experienced Professional Game Designer

Rob Chew is the founder and chief creative engineer at Gap Closer Games. He is a UCLA graduate and the lead designer of Rival Restaurants, Rival Restaurants: Back for Seconds Expansion, and Illiterati.

Gap Closer Games has 25,000 units in circulation and has generated over $1M in gross sales. Mr. Chew has over 12 years of experience working with and coaching young people on how to work, collaborate and give presentations in creative team-based environments.

Build an Original Game & Gain Valuable Collaboration Skills

Game Design will teach you how to design a board game in a team-based setting and provide you with the basic skills, knowledge and tools to design a board game that is attractive and marketable.

Students will work and collaborate together in small breakout teams in order to build and develop a fully functional board game. You will learn how to make creative decisions at the “marketplace of ideas” and delegate workflow as you work toward the completion of a board game.

Pitch Your Game to Win a Game Design Competition

Learn how to develop and weave together the component parts of a board game, which are: (1) theme, (2) gameplay, (3) components, (4) instructions and (5) visuals—and discover what it takes to actually pitch, produce, demo, and market a game.

The program will culminate in a CFGL board game design competition, in which student teams will present their game to a panel of board game industry professionals who will judge the new game concepts based on creativity, playability, and marketability.

Students will take away:

A digital prototype of their original board game

A working draft of an instruction manual

The knowledge and building blocks necessary to crowdfund or pitch their new game to a board game company

Invaluable experience that can be incorporated in college applications and college essays

The chance to win an exclusive CFGL game-design competition

An official certificate of achievement

Game Design

Open to students in grades 9–12 // Online classes // No prior experience necessary

——— June 13 – Aug 1, 2023 Space is Limited — Enroll Today!

Weekly Class Tuesdays | 3:30pm–5:30pm PT

Ready to get started?

Fill out the form below, and we’ll get back to you with tuition information and answers to your questions as soon as possible! You can also contact us directly at (714) 974-0484.

Affiliations

More Info

Sign up to join the Elite USA email list!

June 13 – August 1, 2023 • Grades 8-12
Game Design

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June 13 – Aug 1, 2023
Space is Limited — Enroll Today!

Weekly Class
Tuesdays | 3:30pm–5:30pm PT