Game Gallery Amusements

Is your kid a wiz at video games? This summer, they could learn the technology behind those games and even make one of their own. Friday morning, KXAN finishes up the Cool Camp series.
Main Events just opened up this past Tuesday. It's a great place to keep your kids busy with anything from rock walls to bowling and lots of video games, which it seems like every kid loves.
There's one summer camp that takes your kids inside the video game and teaches them how to make one. It's the hottest toy on the market.
Video games are the must have.
If your kid has this mesmorized look on their face when battling evil, you might want to take that interest to the next level.
Johnathon Vought teaches a summer camp at the University of Texas that shows teens how to make video games.
"How you would design a game, how you would kind of preconceive the game and set it all up with what we call a game design document," Vought said.
It may not look like the high-tech games on the market now, but it goes back to the basics.
"We're going to drive our car to shoot over that ramp and run into those boxes," Vought said.
From creating cars on an obstacle course to making landscapes...
"Maybe this one needs to be a bigger mountain, and maybe this needs to have some divets going down," Vought said.
Even 3D character animation is explored.
"What I've done is I've given him a skeleton, and then if I move the head bone, then the mesh bone follows along," Vought said.
By the end of camp, you will have your own video game, and you never know: this could lead to a career.
"It's an exploding field. There's more jobs that are going to be available in the future," Vought said.
The camp isn't just for teenagers. The age requirments for the camp are 13 and up.