Computer game design classes: the students' and professionals' perspectives;Kompiuterinių žaidimų projektavimo pamokos: Mokinių ir specialistų požiūriai

Informatics in Education

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 249-260

  Swacha, Jakub ^a,b   Skrzyszewski, Adam ^b   Sysło, Wojciech A ^a  

^a Higher Vocational State School   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Computer game design; Game design classes; Students' and professionals' expectations; Teaching game design

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958585239     PISSN: 16485831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15388/infedu.2010.18     Document Type: Article

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