GAME 3150: Game Design Algorithms

Mondays and Wednesdays 2:50-4:30 (Lecture)


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Week's Topics
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Date

Topic

Assigned

Deliverables

Sept 5

Introduction

Read Chapter 1 and 2

None

Sept 10

Game Architecture

Read Chapters 3 (till pointers), 4
Assignment 1

Quiz: Chapter 1, 2

Sept 12

2D Graphics and XNA

None

Quiz: Chapter 3, 4
Assignment 1

Sept 17

3D Graphics

Read Chapters 13, 14
Assignment 2

None

Sept 19

Scene Graph

Read Chapter 10

Quiz: Chapter 13, 14

Sept 24

Camera Object and Lighting

Quiz: Chapter 10
Makeup for Assign1

Sept 26

Lab on Assign 2

Read Chapter 11

Assignment 2

Oct 1

Data Driven Game Software Design

Read Chapter 15
Assignment 3

Quiz: Chapter 11

Oct 3

Collision and Physics

Quiz: Chapter 15

Oct 8

 

 

 

Oct 10

Threading

Read Chapters 18

Assignment 3

Oct 15

AI – Intro (Guest Lecture in Room 366 WVH)

Read Chapters 17
Assignment 4

Read Julian's Materials:
[ paper 1 ]
[ paper 2 ]

Oct 17

AI and Games [presentation is in the dropbox materials folder]

 

Quiz: Chapter 17 and 18

Oct 22

Critique
Network Programming

Read Chapters 16
Project Pitch
Assignment 5

Assignment 4

Oct 24

Network Programming

 

Oct 29

University Closed because of the Hurricane

Project Pitch

Oct 31

Guest Lecture by Kevin Dill [this lecture will be in 366 WVH]

Nov 5

Networkng and Devices
Presentations of the Pitch and HLD

 

Nov 7

Project Planning

Assign 5 [changed from Nov 5 to Nov 7 11:59pm]

Nov 12

Veterns Day

Nov 14

Project Cycle and Software Engineering Project Plan and Documentation

 

Project Plan[revised deadline Friday 11:59pm]

Nov 19

Guest Lecture

 

Nov 21

 

 

 

Nov 26

Critique Session 1

 

Iteration 1

Nov 28

Project work

 

 

Dec 3

critique Sesion 2

 

Iteration 2

Dec 5

Final Presentations

 

Final Documents