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Introduction to Games Development

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COMP07028

Lecture notes 2011-12

Location: Ayr, Dumfries, Hamilton & Paisley
Members: 41
Latest Activity: Dec 8, 2011

Lecture & Lab Notes

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Lecture Notes (John Sutherland)

week	PPT	lecturer's notes	title
1	itgd-1.ppt	here	introduction to the video games industry
2	a short history of games and gaming lecture: i2gdlec2s.pdf lecturer notes: here
3	games for consoles lecture: i2gd-lec3s.pdf notes: here
4	games for phones lecture: i2gd-lec4s.pdf notes: here
5	making money from games lecture: i2gd-lec5s.pdf notes: here
6	the structure of a games studio lecture: i2gdlec6s.pdf notes: here
7	writing games: hit and miss lecture: i2gdlec7s.pdf notes: here
8	games design lecture: i2gd-lec8s.pdf notes: here
9	games imaging lecture: Smoke%20and%20Mirrorss.pdf notes: smokemirrors.pdf
10	games in the world lecture: i2gd-lec10s.pdf notes: here
11	int the future lecture: i2gd-lastlec-s.pdf research paper: A%20Survey%20of%20Augmented%20Reality.pdf notes: here
12	presentation & marking : testsheet.pdf

Lab Notes (Gerry Creechan)

We’ll be using Gamemaker8

GM8 is a fairly straightforward piece of software designed specifically for creating games – that’s the reason why I’ve chosen it. This course is about the game, it’s not a programming course. Students should be judged solely on how good they are at creating a “fun” game. However, GM8 allows some decent functionality to be added. Students, therefore, should be able to display varying degrees of ability.

Assessment

There are three elements to the assessment (detailed written instruction for students later):

1. Each student designs and creates a poster for his/her game (20 marks)

2. Each student designs and creates a CD case cover for his/her game (20 marks)

3. Each student creates an executable version of the game and burns it to CD (60 marks)

Each student should submit physical copies of these to the lecturer (by whatever local means exist) by 16:00 on the Friday of week 11 AND electronic copies of all three elements to Blackboard by 23:59 on the same day.

Marking

As we progress through the course I will supply a slightly detailed marking scheme – I don’t want to tie your hands too much but I do want to ensure uniformity by giving as much help as is required.

Blackboard

I’ll create a Blackboard site and allow self-enrolment – the pin will be 07028 (zero-seven-zero-two-eight). The site will contain the zipped tutorials as well as links to them on the Gamemaker website.

I’ll only create one Bb site, so if you need to use it to get a message to your students please head the message with a very, very, very clear statement of which students should take note (we’ve already had incidents of classes being rearranged on one campus and student on another campus blaming their non attendance on this!).

Proposed Schedule:

		Activity
Week	w/b	Lab	Self Study
1	26-Sep		GM8 - Download, install + familiarise Read Tutorial 1
2	03-Oct	Start Tut2 "Clown"	Complete Tut2 + create variant(s)
3	10-Oct	Start Tut3 "1945" Part 1	Complete Tut3 "1945" Part 1 + create variant(s)
4	17-Oct	Start Tut3 "1945" Part 2	Complete Tut3 "1945" Part 2 + create variant(s)
5	24-Oct	Choose T4, T5 or T6 Start chosen Tut	Continue chosen tutorial
6	31-Oct	Continue chosen tutorial Launch assessment	Continue chosen tutorial Think about assessment
7	07-Nov	Agree assessment project Begin assessment	Continue assessment
8	14-Nov	Continue assessment	Continue assessment
9	21-Nov	Continue assessment	Continue assessment
10	28-Nov	Beta test (if desired) using classmates as testers.	Continue assessment
11	05-Dec	Continue assessment	Continue assessment Hand-in by FRIDAY 16:00
12	12-Dec		Late hand-in FRIDAY 16:00