CS281: introduction to Game Development
Teacher
Eelke Folmeroffice hours:
Monday SEM 208
3.30 PM-5.30 PM
schedule
- Mondays 5.30-8.15PM SEM 231B (ECC LABS)
resources
books
indiv. projects
group projects
links
- download gamemaker
- game maker forums
- great games experiment
- experimental gameplay
- helpyouplay
- free sounds
Past Games
News
- The evaluations for this course are available on webct
- Check out this game called Judith
- You are invited to attend the IGT-UNR seminar which is held this Friday at the Knowledge center, there will be 3 speakers from the game industry. schedule poster
- Don't forget to send me your design document before next class starts.
- Deadline for burning rubber is pushed back one week
- the half finished bejeweled example we made in class can be downloaded here
- The grades for the 1st midterm can be found on WebCT. Solutions to the midterm can be downloaded here
Schedule
| Week | Topics | Tutorial | GMA | GDE | Homework |
| 1-19 | Martin Lr King Jr. Day - No class | 1 | - | ||
| 1-26 | Introduction | Minor |
Pong | 2 | 1 | |
| 2-2 | The History of Games,myhistory, video | Breakout | 3 | 2 | submit ch1 |
| 2-9 | What makes a good game? | 4 | 3 | submit ch2 | |
| 2-16 | Presidents Day - No Class | - | 5 | 4 | submit ch3 |
| 2-23 | Demo Day: Asteroids | Paratrooper | 6 | 5 | submit ch4 |
| 3-2 | Gameplay: Challenge, Conflict & Interaction slides | Platform | 7 | 6 | submit ch5 |
| 3-9 | Demo Day: Combat | Tower Defense | 8 | 7 | submit ch6 |
| 3-16 | Spring Break | - | |||
| 3-23 | Midterm I GDE 1-6 | - | 9 | 8 | submit ch7 |
| 3-30 | The Business of Games | Bejewelled | 10 | 9 | submit ch8 |
| 4-6 | Jonathan blow lecture slides audio | 3D games | 11 | 10 | submit ch9 |
| 4-13 | Demo Day: Burnin' Rubber Lecture: interaction design | - | 11 | submit ch10 | |
| 4-20 | James Kosta Invited talk Design document FP due |
- | 12 | submit ch11 | |
| 4-27 | Midterm II GDE 7-12 |
- | submit ch12 | ||
| 5-4 | Work on final project |
Sudoku | |||
| 5-11 | Final Project Presentations |