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Games being developed by the class

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• Perspectives 09 at UNR. A featured theme of the festival is "Play", there are numerous examples of the creative utilization of computer gaming in the arts. You should go.
• Journalism 490B - Game Design for Journalists. Should be a fun course and you will get good at programming in flash (or convince Larry to use some other programming language).
• Nov 9, 2009: Dr. Louis is sick, class Cancelled. Please work on your projects.
• The rest of the semester Schedule

• Extra credit for participating in today's Interactive GA session. Make sure to participate in the session to get the credit
• Oct 14th: Presentation on Interactive GA's for Design. Intro to Blender.
• Oct 21ST class will be in SEM 211 - Evolving a game character transformation/effect. Help us with our game research.
• Due to numerous requests, Assignment 1 due date postponed to October 7.
• Subversion: an open source version control system also check out Git: the fast version control system . I know svn (subversion), I do not know git.
• Sept 23: Guest lecture by Dr. Pippa Avery on her AI in games research at UNR.
• Sept 2: Class cancelled. Please work in the lab, we will meet Sept 9
• Sept - Dec: Class meets in WRB 2007 (William Raggio)
• August 31: Class meets in SEM 344
• Syllabus in html, in postscript , and in PDF

Machines for this course are in 342D, ask me for the combination. You will need CSE department accounts, get them from the office in SEM 242.

• Assignment 1, Due September 21, 28, Oct 5.
  • Complete, 2D, game like pong, snakes, using pygame, openGL, directX, ... The game must run on the GameLab machines.
  • Games from Fall 09
  • A game evaluation survey
  • 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.
• Assignment 0: Pick a game and write a critique: Due Sept 9 before class starts. I require hardcopy. 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
  7. Lark Anderson's (UNR alum) review of Bit.Trip Core and of World Heroes Anthology

• Collision detection resources
• A brief history of Video Gaming. From the somewhat incoherent but informative Wikipedia article
• History, Genres, Components
• Game Design Factors.
• 2D graphics and more
• AI from John E Laird at UM
• Decision Trees, and DT induction from Patrick Henry Winston.
• Beginner physics . There is also some Theory and finally, my Overview

• Graphics
  • Pygame, a 2D game engine with a link to Tutorials
  • Python-Ogre, python bindings to ogre3d with a link to Tutorials
    • Our wiki page on downloading, compiling, and installing Python-Ogre on ubuntu9.04

  • Ogre 3D, c/c++ graphics engine with a link to Tutorials
• Modeling
  • Blender, a 3D modeler with a link to Blender tutorials and education
  • Google sketchup

• Sound
  • Audacity
• 3D Models
  • 3D Models
• Sound Assets
  • Free Sounds
• Examples
  • Tom Pong, classic pong implemented in pygame!
  • Snakes in python/pygame!
  • LGames makers of LBreakout2
  • Free Game Resources
  • Game Research Groups
  • List of programs

Tentative Schedule

• September 9: Assignment 1: Brainstorming
• September 14: Assignment 1: Presentation and Critique
• September 21: Assignment 1: Prototype demonstration
• September 28: Assignment 1: Game play and evaluation
• September 30: Assignment 2: Brainstorming
• October 5: Assignment 2: Game idea presentation and talent recruiting
• October 7: Assignment 2: Group brainstorming
• October 12: Assignment 2: Group tasking
• October 19: Assignment 2: Progress Demo
• October 26: Assignment 2: Prototype Demo
• November 2: Assignment 2: Game Play and evaluation
• November 4: Project Brainstorming
• November 9: Project Game idea discussion and talent recruiting
• November 16: Group tasking
• November 30: Progress Demo
• December 7: Protoype Demo
• December 14: 2:15 - 4:15 Game Play and evaluation

• Ender's Game Redux.
• Joysticks in the Classroom: Game-Design Programs Take Off
• Simulating Fallujah Graphics engines, supercomputers and real gunpowder. Games that make leaders: top researchers on the rise of play in business and education