A World Building Curriculum
BUILD YOUR WORLD
Game Not Included is a world building curriculum designed to help students build social emotional skills through concept art.
What is Game Not Included?
Game Not Included uses digital art and the practice of world building to explore personal identity using a project-based approach. With our collection of projects you’ll learn how to harness the power of your unique perspective and experiences through visualization, concept art, and storytelling.
The World Journal
Every detail of your world is stored in the World Journal. Here you can share your progress, view your peer’s Worlds, and collaborate on projects.
Swatch Maker
Learn how to harness the power of emotions to create captivating and memorable designs. The Swatch Maker teaches you to leverage colors, patterns, and shapes to push your designs to the next level.
Project Templates
Create the characters and environments that fill your world with our collection of template files and lessons. Every project you finish adds a new object to your world.
Learning Library
Game Not Included encourages a collaborative learning environment, no matter what software you use. Build the skills to ask good forum questions, find and share quality tutorials, and navigate software documentation using our Learning Library.
The World Journal
What does it mean to harness the power of emotions through world building? Explore the World Journal below to get a sense of the projects you can create using Game Not Included.
World Building
Emotion Visualization
Digital Art
World Building
Using games and entertainment industry design practices, students learn how to create their own characters, environments, and stories that reflect their lived experiences. Give your students fundamental concept art skills that empower them to realize and communicate a world of their own making.
A variety of mix-and-match templates turn our ready-made lessons into self-guided exploratory tools. Let your students follow their passion and provide them with the building blocks to explore their imagination and translate it into tangible works of art.
Emotion visualization
The life blood of Game Not Included is using color, pattern, and shape to interpret emotions and harness them in artwork. Interactive visualization tools help students develop a motif, strengthening their emotion identification and communication skills through the process of moodboarding.
Just like a concept artist for a feature film, students learn to identify and communicate emotions by building a visual language to convey a specific feeling. Guided by deeply researched methodology for emotional skill building, Game Not Included teaches teens to see their emotional landscape as a strength.
Digital Art
Learning digital art doesn’t have to be prohibitively expensive or complicated. With so many ways to learn new software available around the web it be hard to know where to start. Game Not Included teaches you how to find the learning resources that are right for you and your class. A focus on low-cost, free, and/or open-source tools help you get to art-making quickly, and helps you adapt to the needs of individual students.
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Gather Inspiration
Empower Students
Plan and Create
There are tons of digital art tools available online and decided where to start can be tough. Right now we’re building out a library of learning resources for teachers interested in bringing digital arts into their classroom. Check out the latest pages below.
