ستتعلم في هذا البرنامج وعلى مدار ثلاثة أسابيع، الكثير عن تطوير الألعاب من خلال استخدام منصات مختلفة، يشمل ذلك الأدوات المستخدمة في الواقع الافتراضي مثل، الهواتف الذكية، والروبوتات.
- Cycle 1: 05 July - 23 July 2026 | Cycle 2: 26 July - 13 August 2026
- Target Audience: Grades 9 to 12 (Grades 7 and 8 are welcome to join)
- Program hours: 12:00-5:00 PM
- Fees: 5000 SAR
- Location: Alfaisal University Campus
Program Description
Robogames & Esports Academy will focus on the dynamic world of esports, providing students with certified training in competitive gaming and education in map building. This program is the first of its kind in the Kingdom designed specifically for high school students. The week will dive into the fundamentals of esports strategy as well as creative game design. Participants will gain insights into the fast-paced world of professional gaming, learning from industry experts while engaging in hands-on practice with cutting-edge tools and platforms. The program also highlights various career paths in esports, fostering students’ potential to explore and excel in the rapidly evolving competitive gaming industry. Students will also enjoy an electrifying field trip into the world of esports, experiencing the thrill of competitive gaming, meeting industry professionals, and witnessing firsthand how professional gamers and developers push the boundaries of digital competition.
Track History
RoboGames track introduces an extended edition of MobiSiTech+ and AR Games Developer tracks that were offered from 2020 to 2023 and reflected a huge success. RoboGames track introduces mobile game apps, Artificial Intelligence in games, unity games for 2d and 3d environments, 3d modeling, Games Design and Art making as well as animation and Playful Robotics development with special focus on Extended Reality (XR) in Game development in an interactive manner designed for all enthusiastic beginners and technology lovers. Students will be able to implement gaming applications that can serve in various real-life sectors (e.g., educational, business, entertainment, and gaming ...etc). Furthermore, they can see how mobile apps interact with robotics. Moreover, they will be able to dive into the entertainment world and learn how applications can be designed to reflect an exciting gaming context and how developers can program robots. Throughout the program, students will be exposed to some technical workshops and will get the chance to meet many experts in the field.
Why Robogames?
The program offers the first global training experience in the kingdom on esports and allows students to gain free membership in Alfaisal’s game innovation lab to grow their passion in game innovation field by being part of future impactful projects that matches their interest. It also opens up the space for them to work on activities and meet with gaming communities and participate in global annual challenges like Game Jams and Gameathon (check figure 1), minigames exhibit and robotics challenges at Alfaisal during and after the program.
Figure 1:Program students winning first place in Gameathon Riyadh in summer 2022.
Track focus areas
- Esports
- Mobile game development
- 2d level design and art making
- 3d modeling with blender
- Animation
- AI in games
- Extended Reality (XR)
- Playful Robotics
Eng. Hoda Elsayed
Software Engineering Lecturer
Game Innovation Lab Director
IBM, IEEE and Oracle Professional Member
IEEE Student Branch Counselor
Robogames & Esports Academy Director
Quality Assurance Committee Coordinator in SE
MobiSiTech and Apps & AR Games Developers Director in AUEP
Software Engineering, College of Engineering, Alfaisal University
Eng. Hoda Ahmed Galal Elsayed is a Software Engineering Lecturer at Alfaisal University, specialized in web, mobile, game development applications with AI, IoT, and XR. She has served as a Session Chair at HCI International and an invited speaker and panelist at the VoV and AGI Conferences, hosted by the French Embassy and at Alfaisal University under Saudi Esports Federation (SEF) patronage, respectively. As ACM and Springer-published researcher, she has contributed to VR, AI, cybersecurity, and persuasive computing, presenting at HCI International, ISHIC’17, and ICC’17 (ACM, Cambridge). She has led training programs on AR in Banking (Bank Aljazira), Storytelling & Game Design (Game Bootcamp in collaboration with Misk & DGA), and XR Bootcamp (Saudi Esports Federation). She holds certifications from IEEE for Engineering education, IBM Skills Academy’s Big Data (Hadoop) Development, IoT Cloud Development, and Data Science, as well as Oracle APEX & SQL, Google Developer Badge & Android Studio, Cisco Introduction to Cybersecurity, HarvardX Fundamentals of TinyML, and a PMP Preparation Course. She is a confounding lecturer and director of MobiSiTech+, Apps & Games Developers and Robogames & Esports Academy programs, launched by AUEP.She serves as Game Innovation Center Director, Robogames & Esports Academy Director, IEEE Student Branch Counselor, and QA Coordinator. Her work has earned multiple awards, including 1st Place Boeing Engineering Competition, 2nd place Arabnet Ideathon, and Best Research & Poster Awards. She is also a certified Oracle member, IBM educator, and Ambassador for Women in Data Science (WiDS).
Track Team:
- GDC members
- GIC Assistants
- Game track students