Fall 2015 Plan

#Course Management

1. Faster pace
2. Set the expectations early
3. Build examples
4. Maintain engagement

#Assessment Change

• Students to demonstrate personal engagement with course (5%). Examples: I.F., go to a meetup and write a report on it

#Topics

1. Git
2. Physics / 2D space
3. Game engine
4. Art
5. JavaScript
6. Main loop
7. Unity
8. Mobile
9. Entity component system
10. Modding => extensible
11. Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
12. Multiplayer (but not necessarily network-based)
13. Randomness (e.g., minimum spanning trees)
14. Engineering issues with networking
15. Security
16. 3D (why: Unity toolset, looks impressive, comfortability)

#Team Projects

1. JS 2D game (team of 3 or 4)

• Requirements: 2 genres, tuning via JSON, chiptunes, 2D animation
• Pick: game economy, scoring, AJAX, multilevels, storyline branch, 2D physics
• Deliverables: proposal, GDD, alpha, beta

2. Unity

• Requirements: multiplayer, 2D or 3D
• Pick: particles, networking, mechanics, cameras

3. Mobile

#Individual Projects

1. Hall of fame / shame (Day 1)
2. One-button GDD (Day 2)
3. Git
4. Security readings