Minecraft Game Design Camp with Dan Baker

Ever wonder how your favorite Minecraft minigames are made? In this hands-on class series hosted at The White Rabbit Club in Ashland, OR, students will explore a real, fully-built Minecraft realm and learn how to design and build their own minigames from scratch. Starting with a guided tour of a working game world, students will discover the systems that make it all run — command blocks, redstone, game mechanics, and level design — and then put that knowledge to work building and playtesting their own creation. No experience required, just a love of Minecraft and a curiosity for how things work.

Students will need Minecraft Bedrock Edition, available on laptops, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices. Laptops are strongly encouraged as the class will cover command blocks and other tools that are much easier to work with on a keyboard.

About the Instructor

Dan Baker is an Ashland, OR local and professional Minecraft creator with over a decade of building experience. A Minecraft Marketplace Partner since 2018, Dan has published more than 25 maps and 30 skin packs on the official Minecraft Marketplace under The Rage Craft Room — his business, his Marketplace brand, and the fully custom realm at the heart of this class series. The Rage Craft Room features parkour maps, adventure maps, minigames, and a hand-built command block system developed over years of real-world game design experience. Dan is also a Meta Horizons Partner, creating immersive virtual reality content and experiences in addition to his Minecraft work. He brings that professional knowledge into an approachable, hands-on teaching environment where students learn by doing.

Class Schedule 3 Saturdays, 2 Hours Each | May 2, 9, 23

Saturday May 2 — Realm Tour & How It All Works Tour of The Rage Craft Room as a finished example of a complete project. Covers realm settings and why each decision was made (adventure mode, keep inventory, day/night PVP and mob buffs, saturation, suppressed output and death messages), the command block hub and ticking areas, the glowstone and snowball systems, checkpoints, item removal, and the Nether portal buffer system. Redstone explained in context throughout the tour. Students experience the realm as players first, then see what's running underneath.

Saturday May 9 — Start Your Build Students choose their minigame concept and mechanics. Set up the command block brain and lobby structure together as a class. Begin gray boxing if time allows.

Saturday May 23— Build Your Game Students build out their minigame and playtest within their group. Peer playtesting and feedback if time permits.