Administration

• Class meets in the AGN on Wed. 8/29. See you there.
• Old Syllabus in html, in postscript , and in PDF

• Assignment 0: Pick a game and write a critique: For each of the following criteria write one paragraph on what appeals to you, and one paragraph on what does not appeal to you.
  1. Art
  2. Sound
  3. Animation
  4. Gameplay
  5. Physics
  6. Artificial Intelligence
  Due Sept 5 before class starts. I require harcopy.
• Assignment 1 September: Complete, 2D, game like pong, snakes, using pygame, openGL, directX, ... The game must run on the GameLab machines.
  • Games from Fall 07, most use pygame

• Assignment 2 October: Complete, 3D, game like a racing or other skill game using the lagoon game engine or other game engine. Must run on GameLab machines.

• November: Complete, 2D/3D game of your team's choice.

• A brief history of Video Gaming. From the somewhat incoherent but informative Wikipedia article
• Game Design Factors.
• 2D graphics and more
• AI from John E Laird at UM

• Pygame with a link to Tutorials

• Tom Pong, classic pong implemented in pygame!

• Snakes in python/pygame!

• LGames makers of LBreakout2

• Free Game Resources

• Game Research Groups

• List of programs