During the summer of 2004, HJTM teamed up with Michelle Medeiros and Earl’s Garage to offer video game design classes to students in North Hawaii. We taught classes in Waimea, Honokaa, Waikoloa, Kohala, and Paauilo. Thirty four video game and graphics enthusiasts, grades 5th-12th, participated in the program.
The students used Flash to create their games. Michelle and I downloaded a spaceship game tutorial off the internet and used it for the class. Students drew their graphics and, using Action Script, programmed them to move and interact with each other. For example, the arrow keys on the keyboard control the spaceship and the control key fires a laser from the spaceship.

I'd like to give a high-five and a complex handshake to David Doull, who created the tutorials and posted them on Flash Kit. Here are the links to the tutorials we used: Tutorial One, Tutorial Two, Tutorial Three.

Click on the links below to play the games.
Athena
Garrett
Bianca
Use the arrow keys to maneuver the spaceship; and the "ctrl" key to fire the lasers.