EECS 494

Computer Game Design

2008 Schedule

John E. Laird

Last updated: November 3, 2008

Sept. 3 History of Computer Games

Hand out Assignment 1: Computer Game Review

Sept. 5 Game Design Principles

Sept. 8 Video Game Architecture & Bit-Mapped Graphics

Assignment 1 Due

Hand out Assignment 2: Arcade Game

Sprite Creation Notes

Tank-tutorial http://zenipex.com/zenilib/tutorial/zenitank/

Sept. 10 Zenilib Game Engine [Mitchell Bloch]

Sept. 12 Zenilib Game Engine [Mitchell Bloch]

Sept. 15 Basic Physics and Collision Detection

Sept. 17 Game Design Process

Sept. 19 In Class Game Design Exercise

Sept. 22 Computer Game Business

Sept. 24 3D Graphics

Sept. 26 No Class

Sept. 29 Zenilib 3D [Mitchell Bloch]

Hand out Assignment 3: 3D Graphics

Sept. 30 Assignment 2 Due

Oct. 1 Matt Toschlog

Oct. 3 Demos of Arcade Games

Oct. 6 Intro to 3D Skinning/Texture Mapping and Terrain Generation

Oct. 8 Development Process and Teams

Oct. 10 Sid Meier!

Oct. 13 SPORE

Oct. 15 EA Invited Speaker

Oct. 17 NO CLASS – WORK ON ASSIGNMENT 3

Oct. 20 NO CLASS – FALL BREAK

Oct. 22 Example Final Projects

Hand out Assignment 4: Final Project

Assignment 3 Due

Oct. 24 Pitch Day

Oct. 27 Guest Speaker: Alex Kerfoot – formerly of Maxis

Oct. 29 Massively Multiplayer Games

Oct. 31 Networking for Computer Games

Oct. 31 Concept Paper Due

Nov. 3 Path following, path planning, flocking

Nov. 5 Artificial Intelligence 1

Nov. 7 Artificial Intelligence 2

Nov. 10 Game Audio

Nov. 10 Design Document Due

Nov. 12 Group Meetings

Nov. 14 Group Meetings

Nov. 17 Group Meetings

Nov. 19 First Person Shooter Games

Nov. 21 Matt Gilgenbach, High Impact Games

Nov. 24 No class – Distinguished Lecture (Tom Mitchell)

Nov. 24 Alpha Release of Final Projects Due

Nov. 26 No class

Nov. 28 Thanksgiving break

Dec. 1 Alphas

Dec. 3 Story-based Game Design

Dec. 5 Facade

Dec. 8 Ethics in Computer Games

Dec. 9 Final Projects Due