| Week |
Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Notes |
Assignments |
| 1 |
8/19 |
Introduction |
|
Lecture
Slides |
|
| |
8/21 |
Giving a Talk, Game Proposal |
|
Giving a Talk, Game proposal, Game History, Genres |
GameCoTutorial |
| |
8/23 |
Game Genres, Game History,
Game Ideas |
JC Herz |
|
|
| 2 |
8/26 |
Team Building,
Design Teams |
|
Lecture Slides |
Project
Part 0 Due |
| |
8/28 |
Demos of Past 4455 Games |
|
|
GameCoTutorial
Due
Assignment 2 Out |
| |
8/30 |
Game Play Styles |
|
|
|
| 3 |
9/4 |
Flow |
M Csikszent-
mihalyi |
Lecture Slides |
|
| |
9/6 |
Graphic Design |
|
Lecture Slides |
|
| 4 |
9/9 |
Presentation Day |
|
Initial Design |
Project
Part 1 Due
Assignment 3 Out |
| |
9/11 |
Presentation Day |
|
Initial Design |
|
| |
9/13 |
? |
|
? |
|
| 5 |
9/16 |
Graphic Design |
|
Lecture Slides |
Assignment 2
Due
|
| |
9/18 |
Graphic Design
Eg. WarCraft, Age Of Empires |
|
Lecture Slides |
|
| |
9/20 |
Graphics: Color + Rendering Pipeline |
|
Lecture Slides |
Assignment
3 Due |
| 6 |
9/23 |
Presentation Day |
|
Project Design + Progress |
Project
Part 2 Due |
| |
9/25 |
Presentation Day |
|
Project Design + Progress |
|
| |
9/27 |
Animation Overview |
|
Lecture Slides |
|
| 7 |
9/30 |
Anim: Inverse Kinematics + Motion Capture |
|
Lecture Slides |
|
| |
10/2 |
|
|
|
|
| |
10/4 |
|
|
|
|
| 8 |
10/7 |
Anim: MoCap + Blending MoCap |
|
|
Assignment 4 Out |
| |
10/9 |
Anim: Blending MoCap |
Course Pack |
|
|
| |
10/11 |
Anim: Simulation, Collision Detection |
|
Lecture Slides |
|
| 9 |
10/14 |
Anim: Groups -- Flocking |
|
|
|
| 9 |
10/16 |
Presentation Day |
|
Minimum Target |
Project Part 3 Due |
| |
10/18 |
Presentation Day |
Gems Chap. 3 |
Minimum Target |
|
| 10 |
10/21 |
Game AI |
|
Lectures Slides |
|
| |
10/23 |
Game AI |
|
|
|
| |
10/25 |
Networks |
|
Lecture Slides |
|
| 11 |
10/28 |
Networks |
|
|
|
| |
10/30 |
Play Testing |
|
Lecture Slides |
|
| |
11/1 |
Play Testing |
|
|
|
| 12 |
11/4 |
Watch MoCap Videos / Group Meetings
|
|
|
Assignment 4 Due |
| |
11/6 |
Audio |
Leyanda.mp3
LeyandaCDS.mp3 |
Lecture Slides |
|
| |
11/8 |
Audio |
|
|
|
| 13 |
11/11 |
Presentation Day |
|
Alpha Release |
Project Part 4 Due |
| |
11/13 |
Presentation Day |
|
Alpha Release |
|
| |
11/15 |
Particle Systems |
|
IGF Student Showcase
Due Today |
|
| 14 |
11/18 |
Particle Systems |
|
Lecture Slides
|
|
| |
11/20 |
Lighting |
|
Lecture Slides
|
|
| |
11/22 |
Job Market |
|
Lecture Slides
|
|
| |
11/25 |
Research, VGIS, etc. |
|
Lecture Slides
|
|
| |
11/27 |
Fake Terrain |
|
Lecture Slides
|
|
| |
12/2 |
Online Justice Systems |
A J Kim |
Lecture Slides
|
|
| |
12/4 |
Presentations & Video |
|
|
Video Due |
| |
12/6 |
Playtesting & Final Paper |
|
|
Project Part 5 Due |