Shanghai Theatre Academy’s School of Creative Studies has launched this semester’s Digital Interactive Storytelling course, with GLTOP Developers Club participating as a teaching partner.
The course combines storytelling, interaction and Unity game development to provide digital-media students with learning that reflects industry and employer needs.
GLTOP Club member Gong Lei is one of the instructors, drawing on the club’s development experience to teach core skills and their practical application in interactive storytelling and game design.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Independently develop a hidden-object game, understanding the complete process from concept to implementation;
- Combine digital interactive storytelling with game design, strengthening narrative creation and artistic expression;
- Use Unity efficiently in practical projects and explore current development frameworks.
Course Structure
- Unit 1: Getting Started with Unity
- Unit 2: Core Unity Game-Development Features
- Unit 3: Unity UI System
- Unit 4A: FindIt Framework Fundamentals, Part 1
- Unit 4B: FindIt Framework Fundamentals, Part 2
- Unit 5: Advanced FindIt Framework
- Unit 6: Practical Reskinning
- Unit 7: Build and Release
Course Highlights
- Industry relevance: content draws on GLTOP Club’s practical work with game companies to reflect current industry and employer requirements;
- Industry-led teaching: experienced club members partner with the academy to share current technical practice and professional experience;
- Practical learning: each unit includes real tasks and projects so students build usable skills, especially in interactive storytelling and game design;
- FindIt in practice: students learn and use the FindIt framework, a specialist tool used in hidden-object and puzzle-game development.
With GLTOP Club’s involvement, the academy’s game-development course aims to improve teaching quality and students’ career readiness. It develops technical abilities alongside artistic and narrative potential, helping prepare well-rounded, innovative talent for the game industry.
The collaboration brings teaching closer to industry needs while giving students additional practical resources and technology opportunities, making digital-media education more forward-looking and applicable.
GLTOP Developers Club supports closer links between education and industry through technical research and teaching partnerships. This collaboration continues that work in game-technology education and industry development.