Due August 28

CS 4455 - Video Game Programming & Design

Fall 2002

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Assignment 1: Game Co-Tutorial

Individual assignment

For this assignment, you should teach a CS4455 classmate (or someone your own age) to play a new (to them) game and then write an approximately 3 page, single-spaced paper about the game. They must not have played the game before.

In the paper you should: Explain the game and the genre(s) that it fits into. Compare this game to other games in its genre. Why do people play this game? What makes it fun? How was computer technology (e.g. graphics, AI, animation) used to make this game more fun? Did the lack of or excessive use of technology ever hurt the playability of the game? What did your classmate think of the game? Did he/she enjoy learning the game? How long did it take your trainee to get good enough at the game to have fun? What aspects of the game did your classmate find easy to learn or confusing?

Grading: 20% of the paper's total based on literary quality.