This course is designed to provide an overview to the pipeline process for video game creation, from asset creation to integration, as well as an overview to scripting for gaming. Students will be expected, by the end of the course, to effectively evaluate and utilize different game engines for specific tasks.

Midterm
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Week 1 Lecture: Introduction to Game Engines

Assignment for next week: Read Oblique reflections: software art & the 3D games engine by Brogan Bunt (Murdoch University, 2006)

Week 2 Lecture: Drag and Drop with 3DGameStudio

Assignment for next week: Create a level in 3DGS with multiple entities and a playable character. The level should be textured and lit.

Week 3 Lecture: A Brief Introduction to 3D Programming

Assignment for next week:

• Create a small Processing sketch demonstrating draw and interaction methods
• Pick one of the Blitz3D demos and write a short paragraph analysis of how it works.

Week 4 Lecture: Thinking with Nodes: X3D and ECMAScript
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Assignment for next week: Model a basic scene in X3D (using text/GUI editor) and attach three different sensors. Route the sensors (using interpolators if necessary) so that three objects in your scene are interactive.

Extra credit: Write your own script node to control interaction.

Week 5 Lecture: Understanding Torque 

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Assignment for next week: Midterm!

Week 6 Lecture: Body Movin': Animation for Gaming
X3D key sensor listener example
Assignment for next week: Midterm Extension & "Creating a Culture of Design Research" by Eric Zimmerman of Gamelab (Design Research, ed. Brenda Laurel, 2003)

Week 8 Lecture: The HUD 

Week 9 Lecture: Making Your Games Think
Assignment for next week: Work on Final!