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Coding · Grade 9

Testing, Performance and Responsible Design

Learners test game rules with exact expected values, write reproducible bug reports, analyse performance against the frame budget and see how spatial grids cut collision checks, and evaluate responsible design: avoiding pay-to-win, loot boxes and dark patterns, supporting healthy play, and protecting young players' privacy and safety, ending with a reviewed responsible-design review.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 95 minutes
  • Check what you learned: 8 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, trace code, highlight a text, match pairs, type a number and put in order
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What learners will discover

  • Test game rules with exact expected values and write reproducible bug reports.
  • Analyse frame-time profiles against the frame budget and reduce collision-check costs.
  • Identify manipulative monetisation and dark patterns, and choose healthy-play, privacy and safety features.
  • Review a game against a release checklist with evidence, including responsible-design criteria.

Lessons

  1. Testing a game 5 steps2 practiceabout 22 min
  2. Performance and the frame budget 5 steps3 practiceabout 24 min
  3. Responsible design 3 steps2 practiceabout 22 min
  4. Reviewing a game responsibly 3 steps2 practiceabout 18 min
  5. Check what you learned 8 questions at the end

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