How Singing in a Choir Inspired a New Way of Teaching Game Design: Lessons on Collaboration and Orchestration

Learn how adopting techniques from a music program, such as orchestration and guided instruction, can address cross-disciplinary challenges in game design and enhance student learning.

Using choir to inspire teaching game design

I’ve been a part of a choir this last school quarter, and its been a very fun and rewarding experience. The interesting thing that I’ve been thinking about is how different the choir setup is from my game design classes, yet they are actually remarkably similar in concept. Allow me to explain.

In game design a b…