GAME 3150: Game Design Algorithms
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
Quiz: Chapter 3, 4 Assignment 1
Sept 17
3D Graphics
Read Chapters 13, 14 Assignment 2
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
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
Nov 12
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