As a secondary school graduate, choosing the next step in your education may feel like a scary leap. Nothing to worry about: Pulsed Empower is here to support you. This inspiring, challenging program enables secondary school graduates to uncover their uniqueness and put it to satisfying use. Empower focuses on your wants, needs and abilities and helps you find the direction that fits you like a glove.
Empower is all about the strength of creating. The emphasis is on learning through experiencing, doing, sometimes failing, and starting all over to finally succeeding. That is why books are optional, not mandatory. Empower turns every day into an innovative field trip filled with technology, entrepreneurship, and creativity. At the same time, you stay socially connected with other students and lecturers.
The challenge was to make any type of game and since I always wanted to try and make a videogame, I decided to do just that. The game that I ended up making was about impactful things that happened in my life so far. I decided to create a world that represents the inside of my head which in the game looks like a library. In this library the player walks around two dungeons. These are representing four things that had an impact on who I am today.
The biggest thing I learned from this project is the logic Lua. It was kinda hard to wrap my head around at first, but eventually it became more familiar. Even to the point that I could just write it out the top of my head. While I am still far away from fully mastering it, I can say that right now I'm very comfortable with this programming language. I'm also excited to learn new things about it!
Besides learning about the language I also got to learn myself better and learn more about how my own head works. After this challenge I also accept myself and my thoughts a lot more. And that links up to the impact I want to make with this game. I hope this game shows people that when you accept who you are and you try out what you are interested in, that you can achieve a lot! For example, I started with little to no coding knowledge, I watched some tutorials and now I have created my own game!
If you want to try something out, just allow yourself to take the opportunity and it give it a go!
With this link you can play the game yourself:
https://ikaloligo.itch.io/life-quest
Enjoy and have fun!
Smashing the status quo, breaking the mould, shaping a new one … just to break it again. Our fast-paced, ever-changing world demands equally evolving education. That is why Fontys Pulsed Academy puts its daring spin on it, based on better, broader, exciting design-based learning. Our curriculum is never finished, our thirst for knowledge and skills is never quenched, and our ambition is never fully achieved.
Fontys Pulsed Academy offers student-centred, talented-based teaching approaches captured in five act-provoking programs. These are primarily aimed at a challenging cocktail of technology & craftmanship, entrepreneurship & business, and design & creativity. Additionally, we offer expeditions for educators to take ownership and (re)design the education of their institute.
As a secondary school graduate, choosing the next step in your education may feel like a scary leap. Nothing to worry about: Pulsed Empower is here to support you. This inspiring, challenging program enables secondary school graduates to uncover their uniqueness and put it to satisfying use. Empower focuses on your wants, needs and abilities and helps you find the direction that fits you like a glove.
Empower is all about the strength of creating. The emphasis is on learning through experiencing, doing, sometimes failing, and starting all over to finally succeeding. That is why books are optional, not mandatory. Empower turns every day into an innovative field trip filled with technology, entrepreneurship, and creativity. At the same time, you stay socially connected with other students and lecturers.
Smashing the status quo, breaking the mould, shaping a new one … just to break it again. Our fast-paced, ever-changing world demands equally evolving education. That is why Fontys Pulsed Academy puts its daring spin on it, based on better, broader, exciting design-based learning. Our curriculum is never finished, our thirst for knowledge and skills is never quenched, and our ambition is never fully achieved.
Fontys Pulsed Academy offers student-centred, talented-based teaching approaches captured in five act-provoking programs. These are primarily aimed at a challenging cocktail of technology & craftmanship, entrepreneurship & business, and design & creativity. Additionally, we offer expeditions for educators to take ownership and (re)design the education of their institute.
