Bring Your Stories to Life in Minecraft!

This is a 10-week class, 1.5-2 hours each session.

Learn how to make your own interactive story within Minecraft and send your friends on an epic adventure! Learn a mix of useful creative mode building techniques, and back-end magic while having your partner test out your designs before having your classmates live in your story.

Key experiences: off-screen discussion of story building, partner work and discussion, redstone mechanics, commands, structure blocks, creative-mode building.

Long Description:

Have you ever wanted to turn the stories in your imagination into a real, playable adventure? In this class, you’ll learn how to design and build your own interactive story inside Minecraft! Whether you dream of creating an action-packed quest, a tricky puzzle challenge, or an immersive adventure world, you’ll get the tools and skills to make it happen.

Each session, we’ll explore a story or puzzle created by the teacher, then break it down so you can learn how to build similar features in your own unique style.

You’ll learn how to:

• Create story elements like plot, characters, and objectives.
• Use Minecraft tools such as structure blocks, basic commands (like adding effects to players and entities), and redstone mechanics (inputs/outputs, secret doors, comparators).
• Playtest with a partner, giving and receiving feedback to make your world even better.

This is a hybrid class — we’ll spend most of our time building together on the computer, with some off-screen brainstorming and planning activities.

By the end, you’ll have your very own playable Minecraft story to share with friends and family — a project that’s entirely your design!