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UM EECS 494: Fall 2006 Lecture Notes
Tentative syllabus:| Wed 09/06 | History of Computer Games Hand Out Assignment 1: Computer Game Review |
| Fri 09/08 | Game Design Principles and Architecture |
| Mon 09/11 | Arcade Games: 2D Bit-Mapped Graphics Workshop: Sprite Creation using Photoshop Assignment 1 Due Hand Out Assignment 2: Arcade Game |
| Wed 09/13 | The DXFramework Package [Jon Voigt] |
| Fri 09/15 | Workshop: DXFramework Tutorial [Jon Voigt] |
| Mon 09/18 | Basic Physics and Collision Detection |
| Wed 09/20 | Game Design Process |
| Fri 09/22 | In Class Game Design Exercise |
| Mon 09/25 | Visiting Lecture: Matt Gilgenbach, Binary Creativity |
| Wed 09/27 | Visiting Lecture: Michael Malone, EA-Tiburon |
| Fri 09/29 | Visiting Lecture: Alex Kerfoot, Maxis/EA |
| Mon 10/02 | Story-based Game Design Hand Out Assignment 3: Interactive Fiction |
| Tue 10/03 | Assignment 2 Due |
| Wed 10/04 | Workshop: Adrift and Inform Watch John's Adrift streamcast in .mov or .wmv format (it lasts about 50 minutes and is over 200 MB). "Puppy v. Zombie" for adrift and inform. |
| Fri 10/06 | Demoes of Arcade Games |
| Mon 10/09 | Massively Multiplayer Games |
| Wed 10/11 | Networking for Computer Games and Socket Programming |
| Fri 10/13 | Computer Game Business |
| Mon 10/16 | NO CLASS - FALL BREAK |
| Wed 10/18 | Visiting Lecture: Dan Kauffman, High Voltage Software |
| Fri 10/20 | Workshop: Previous Years' Final Project Postmortems |
| Mon 10/23 | In Class Game Design Exercise Hand Out Assignment 4: Final Project |
| Tue 10/24 | Assignment 3 Due |
| Wed 10/25 | Design Document and Game Post Mortems |
| Fri 10/27 | Final Project Pitch Day |
| Mon 10/30 | Game Balance |
| Wed 11/01 | Artificial Intelligence I |
| Thu 11/02 | Final Project Concept Paper Due |
| Fri 11/03 | AI II |
| Mon 11/06 | AI III |
| Wed 11/08 | 3D Graphics I |
| Fri 11/10 | Workshop: Intro to 3D Modeling using Blender3D, Milkshape3D, Maya 3D, or 3DS Max |
| Mon 11/13 | Workshop: Intro to 3D Model Skinning/Texture Mapping and Terrain Generation Final Project Design Document Due |
| Wed 11/15 | Group Meetings |
| Fri 11/17 | Group Meetings |
| Mon 11/20 | Group Meetings |
| Wed 11/22 | Group Meetings |
| Fri 11/24 | NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING BREAK |
| Mon 11/27 | 3D Graphics II |
| Wed 11/29 | AI in First Person Shooter Games |
| Fri 12/01 | AI in FPS II (big file, download to view) and Role Playing Games |
| Mon 12/04 | Strategy Games |
| Tue 12/05 | Alpha Release of Final Projects Due |
| Wed 12/06 | Strategy Games II |
| Fri 12/08 | Alpha release examples |
| Mon 12/11 | Ethics in Computer Games Assignment 4: Final Projects Due |
| Wed 12/13 | Visiting Lecture: Prof. Greg Wakefield, Virtual Acoustic Reflections |
| Fri 12/15 | Computer Game Open House 4:00-7:00pm 1695 CSE |