Education & training
License the content from Code, Create, Play, adapt it for your learners, or commission a complete game-development course designed around your curriculum, delivery model and learning outcomes.
For schools · Transition Year · FE & colleges · universities · private training providers
Three ways to work together
01
License the existing content from Code, Create, Play and use its structure, explanations, examples, exercises and supporting assets within your own teaching or delivery context.
Suitable for organisations that already have teaching capability but need a structured, practical game-development content foundation.
02
Tomás adapts the existing material into a course for your learners, timetable, delivery model and intended outcomes.
This can include revised sequencing, lesson plans, activities, assessments, tutor resources and learner materials.
03
Commission a bespoke game-development learning programme from the ground up, using the book where useful but not being limited by it.
This may include curriculum architecture, practical projects, assessments, digital learning resources and tutor guidance.
Built around practical learning
The book and any course built from it are project-based. Learners are taken through building a complete 2D side-scrolling shooter in GameMaker, one working feature at a time.
Schools and Transition Year
Game development is a motivating vehicle for core digital skills, and is well suited to Transition Year and similar enrichment programmes.
A school programme can be structured as a short intensive project, a series of workshops, a term-long module or a longer learning pathway, depending on timetable and learner experience.
Suitable for beginners. No prior game-development experience is required; learners need access to computers that can run GameMaker.
Further and higher education
The material can support introductory learning in game development, programming, computing, digital media and creative technology.
Training providers can have content developed for delivery by their own trainers, as well as by Tomás where appropriate.
Possible programme outputs
This is non-accredited learning content. Where an accredited award is required, it would be arranged through an appropriate awarding body or provider.
What a programme can include
Learning outcomes, sequencing, pathways, lesson/session structure and progression.
Practical activities, project work, demonstrations, learner resources and accessible learning experiences.
Formative assessment, project briefs, marking criteria, feedback approaches and quality assurance.
GameMaker projects, digital resources, technical documentation and learner-facing interactive artefacts.
Why work with Tomás
Tomás Brides has a Computer Science background and more than 17 years’ experience designing and delivering learning for adult, professional and technical audiences.
17+ years
Learning and technical education
Computer Science
Technical subject expertise
End-to-end learning design
Curriculum · assessment · delivery · QA
Code, Create, Play as a foundation
Code, Create, Play already takes learners from setting up their development environment through to building, testing and refining a complete game.
It is more than a textbook: it is an existing, structured learning approach that can be adapted into other formats, from workshops to full modules.
Flexible programme formats
A focused introduction to game development and coding.
A structured multi-session learning experience.
A deeper project-based programme delivered across a school or college term.
A complete learning pathway designed around organisational, curriculum or learner requirements.
Discuss a programme
Whether you want to license existing content, adapt Code, Create, Play for your learners, or commission a complete programme, get in touch to discuss what would work best.
Tell me a little about your organisation and what you are looking to create. You do not need to have the course fully defined — an initial idea is enough to start a conversation.