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 231C (ECC LABS)
resources
books
indiv. projects
- Paratrooper
- Donkey Kong TBA
group projects
- Top Down Shooter
- Final Game
links
- download gamemaker
- game maker forums
- great games experiment
- experimental gameplay
- helpyouplay
- free sounds
Past Games
News
- The first project assignment has been posted. I will show you how to create a simple paratroopers game next week
- Make sure when submitting howework to include the PAGE NUMBER where the answer to each one of your questions can be found
- Homework of the first chapter of the GDE book is due today, mail it BEFORE class please! if you can't use the link on the website please mail it to: cs281@eelke.com with "FirstName LastName [chapter x]" with your name and x the chapter number of that week
- For those of you who don't have an ECC account yet bring your student ID to class so you can get one.
Schedule
| Week | Topics | Tutorial | GMA | GDE | Homework |
| 8-25 | Introduction | Minor | Pong | 1 | - | |
| 9-1 | Labor Day No class |
2 | 1 | ||
| 9-8 | The History of Games, myhistory, video | Breakout | 3 | 2 | submit ch1 |
| 9-15 | Analyzing Gameplay, what makes a good game? | Breakout II | 4 | 3 | submit ch2 |
| 9-22 | The Business of Games | Paratrooper | 5 | 4 | submit ch3 |
| 9-29 | Demo Day: Paratrooper | - | 6 | 5 | submit ch4 |
| 10-6 | Challenge, Conflict & Interaction | Platformer | 7 | 6 | submit ch5 |
| 10-13 | Midterm II GDE 1-6 | 8 | 7 | submit ch6 | |
| 10-20 | Demo Day: Donkey Kong | - | 9 | 8 | submit ch7 |
| 10-27 | Interaction Design | Pacman | 10 | 9 | submit ch8 |
| 11-3 | TBA | Maze | 11 | 10 | submit ch9 |
| 11-10 | Demo Day: Top down Shooter | 11 | submit ch10 | ||
| 11-17 | TBA | RTS | 12 | submit ch11 | |
| 11-24 | Midterm II GDE 7-12 | submit ch12 | |||
| 12-01 | Work on Project | ||||
| 12-08 | Demo Day : final Project |