In addition to creating games, Innkeeper Games makes classes and tutorials for game developers and creative coders to glowing reviews from students.

Classes

Note: All classes have multiple enrollment options, including a free option for anyone who would otherwise be unable to access the them. If there are any other barriers preventing your access, please feel free to reach out (contact@innkeepergames.com).

Develop Strong Video Game Ideas

In this fast-paced game design and narrative design crash course, you'll learn about 5 techniques for player engagement (ludonarrative scaffolding) and 2 routes to player immersion (transportation and flow) that make your games more fun. There's no coding required at all. If you're looking to learn about game development, game design, narrative design, or just need to come up with game ideas and brainstorm video games, this class is for you.

Enrollment Options

• If you don't have Skillshare Premium but want to get it, consider using my referral link for a free 14 days! You'll get 14 days free access to all of Skillshare (thousands of classes), and I'll earn $10 if you sign up.
• If you already have a Skillshare Premium account, you can take the class there.
• If you have a Web Monetization provider like Coil, you can take the class directly on this website.
• If you cannot access any of the above, you can redeem my class completely for free here. You will need a free Skillshare account, but do not sign up for a free trial—if it asks you to, come back and click the link again. If you run into any other issues or there's anything else preventing you from taking the class, feel free to reach out (contact@innkeepergames.com).

Lessons you'll get access to (30m):

1. Learn Game Design!
2. Brainstorm Game Ideas
3. Target Transportation and Flow
4. Use Emergent Storytelling
5. Use Indirect Control
6. Avoid Ludonarrative Dissonance
7. Align Narrative with Reality
8. Balance Difficulty with Ability
9. Upload Your Project

Make a Moving Player for a Top-Down Game or RPG with Godot

For those getting started in game development, game engines and coding, this short class teaches the basics of character control for top-down and RPG formats, including straight and diagonal movement and speed. Many of these concepts can be applied to other types of games as well!

I will use a free and open source game engine (Godot) for this course. With its new update, Godot is comparable to Unity or Unreal Engine; its purpose is to help us make games by providing frameworks and skeletons most games already need. Plus, since it's MIT-licensed, what you make with it is yours, and you'll never have to pay for a license or any royalties.

Enrollment Options

• If you don't have Skillshare Premium but want to get it, consider using my referral link for a free 14 days! You'll get 14 days free access to all of Skillshare (thousands of classes), and I'll earn $10 if you sign up.
• If you already have a Skillshare Premium account, you can take the class there.
• If you cannot access any of the above, you can redeem my class completely for free here. You will need a free Skillshare account, but do not sign up for a free trial—if it asks you to, come back and click the link again. If you run into any other issues or there's anything else preventing you from taking the class, feel free to reach out (contact@innkeepergames.com).

Lessons you'll get access to (34m):

1. Let's Make a Controller
2. Download Godot and Set Up a Project
3. Keybinding: Bind Keys to Actions
4. Start the Player Scene
5. Make the Game Scene
6. Start Coding with GDScript
7. Implement Vector Math
8. Add a Camera and Some Collision Objects
9. Final Thoughts

Tutorials

To view a list of all tutorials sorted by their publication date, check the tutorial tag.

Topics

You can also get more specific by targeting the following topics I cover here (sorted alphabetically):

• Godot
• Web Monetization