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Pathway Standard:
Know various media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods, including written, oral, visual, and electronic media.

Performance Indicator:
Discuss the relationships between publishers, developers, distributors, marketers, and retailers.

Pathway Standard:
Demonstrate understanding of current trends and the historical significance of both electronic and non-electronic games. Students will analyze different game systems and identify how these systems have influenced consumer technology.

Performance Indicator:
Define and use necessary vocabulary related to games, their genres, game platforms, and game hardware.

Pathway Standard:
Students will demonstrate mastery of game art and multimedia, including music, sound, art, and animation.

Performance Indicator:
Define and discuss intellectual property, copyrights, trademarks, and piracy as they relate to art and multimedia assets in a game.

Pathway Standard:
Understand the general procedures, documentation, and requirements of large scale game design projects. Examine and categorize the significant processes in the production of games.

Performance Indicator:
Describe the importance and interrelationship between development schedule and budget constraints in a video game design project.

Pathway Standard:
Understand the fundamentals of business and marketing, including entrepreneurship, global marketing, and localization.

Performance Indicator:
Discuss the relationships between publishers, developers, distributors, marketers, and retailers.

Pathway Standard:
Identify career goals and develop a career plan that explores employment opportunities in the video game industry.

Performance Indicator:
Analyze job and career requirements as related to career interests and opportunities in the game industry.

Pathway Standard:
Identify career goals and develop a career plan that explores employment opportunities in the video game industry.

Performance Indicator:
Create a resume and use it during a mock interview. At the end of the interview process, apply negotiation skills as they relate to salary and benefits packages.

Anchor Standard:
Use existing and emerging technology to investigate, research, and produce products and services, including new information, as required in the Arts, Media, and Entertainment sector workplace environment. (Direct alignment to W.11-12.6)

Performance Indicator:
Assess the value of various information and communication technologies to interact with constituent populations as part of a search of the current literature or in relation to the information task.

Anchor Standard:
Conduct short, as well as more sustained, research to create alternative solutions to answer a question or solve a problem unique to the Arts, Media, and Entertainment sector using critical and creative thinking, logical reasoning, analysis, inquiry, and problem-solving techniques. (Direct alignment to W.11-12.7)

Performance Indicator:
Solve predictable and unpredictable work-related problems using various types of reasoning (inductive, deductive) as appropriate.

Anchor Standard:
Demonstrate health and safety procedures, regulations, and personal health practices and determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and domain-specific words and phrases as related to the Arts, Media, and Entertainment sector workplace environment. (Direct alignment to RST.9-10, RST.11-12.4)