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Overview
Your final grade is made up of two major components,
homework assignments, and a project. The
weighting of these components is described below.
Students are expected to do their
own work at all times and to follow the university's
codes of academic conduct and honor code. Cases of
suspected collaboration or cheating will be immediately
forwarded to the Dean of Student Affairs, and will be
pursued to resolution. This is an unpleasant process for
all involved, so please do not put yourself in this
situation.
Grading
is determined by a term-long accumulation of points,
weighed in percentage as stated for each component as
summarized below. Determinations of the individual
category breakdowns will be determined by looking for
gaps or clumps in the final averages.
Homework Assignments
The regular homework assignments will be substantive and you will have about a week to do
them. I anticipate giving around three of these. These regular
homeworks will be worth 8% of your grade. Individual values
will be determined later.
Project
One term-long game design project will be given in
this course. The project will be broken down into five parts, each around five weeks in duration. Each of the
substantive assignments is worth between 13% and 16% of your final grade.
The project will have you develop a game. The
assignments will have you specify a game, design it, build it, and
evaluate it. The material which you turn in
should be presented professionally, and should stress
grammatical correctness and clarity. It will be submitted
via on paper, with supplementary material via the Web.
You will be judged on your originality, innovativeness,
quality of writing, and correctness. Each assignment will
be graded on a scale of 0 to 10. Further details will
accompany each assignment.
Final Exam
The final exam will cover the lecture materials and the readings in the
Course Pack. I expect you to have a basic grasp of these materials and
of all parts of your project. You should be familiar with what went on
in each aspect of your project.
Experiment Participation
My research group is doing user interface evaluation experiments this
fall, and we need participants. We
will "pay" each student who
participates as a subject in our experiments 2 percentage
points on the term's mark. Credit for participation in an experiment can
only be applied to one class.
Summary
Below is presented the weight of the different course
components toward your final grade.
| Component |
|
Weight |
| Experiment Participation |
|
2% |
| HWs |
|
8% |
| Project part 1 - Game Proposal + Design Sketch |
|
13% |
| Project part 2 - Design Specification + Interim Report |
|
13% |
| Project part 3 - Minimum Target Progress Report |
|
16% |
| Project part 4 - Alpha Release |
|
16% |
| Project part 5 - Playtesting and Final Paper |
|
14% |
| Final Exam |
|
20% |
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