Educator Resources

A step-by-step guide with facilitation materials, planning tips, and practical instructions to help you host a successful Student Challenge Game Jam.

This asynchronous Student Challenge Orientation equips educators and students with essential information to participate in the 2025-26 program. Learn about the timeline, social impact themes and partners, student events, award categories, and competition logistics. This self-paced course provides a comprehensive overview to support successful involvement in this year’s Challenge.

Bring game design into your classroom with our foundational game design curriculum including six adaptable lesson plans and printable resources.

Threadbare is a free 2D adventure where you become the StoryWeaver, fighting creatures that steal stories and stitching the world back together. You can also help build the game by creating quests, writing dialogue, drawing art, or remixing the code. Your creations can shape the official game!

Open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories that publishes directly to HTML

Create beautiful 2D or 3D games in Unity, deploy to multiple platforms, and use built-in tools to optimize, connect with players, and streamline development.

This easy-to-follow Unity Platform guide is designed to help students and teachers create games using Unity’s powerful tools for interactive experiences and simulations.

Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) is a powerful creation tool that brings Unreal Engine features to Fortnite. It lets users design and publish custom games and experiences using advanced tools like visual scripting, modeling, and VFX.

The Epic Games Education Team believes that everyone can be a creator. We support the player to creator pathway. This curriculum was developed to provide a learning path that will empower students to learn about game development by creating content for Fortnite. Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) provides learners with all the fortnite assets and gameplay devices along with the ability to create and import original assets. In addition, the Verse programming language developed by Epic Games allows you to create your own gameplay in Unreal Editor for Fortnite.