ITC 383 - Computer Game Design

Course Syllabus

In ITC 383, you will learn many of the paradigms in use by the computer game designers. It’s the last class of a 3-semester course series covering multimedia and game design, and thus is heavily dependent on development of a game prototype.

Games produced this semester:

1. Allison - A Bird Stealing Hats

2. Brendan R. - Post Apocolptic Puzzle

3. Bryan - Escape Room

4. Christian - Moody VR

5. Ian - Sea Monsters

6. Ryan - Portal Hunt

7. Samantha - Magic Aliens

8. Taeho - Rythm Game

9. Travis - Tower Defense

10. Brendan M. - 3D Platformer

Changes this semester:

• This class is being offered in a HyFlex format

Lecture Slides:

• Week 1: Introduction

  • Unity Fundamentals

• Week 2: Game Design

  • Why Games Fail?

  • Hitman 3: Developer Insights

  • Player-Centric Design

• Week 3: Hands-on Shaders

  • Vertex Morphing Shader

  • Vertex Morphing Application: Flag Waiving

• Week 4:

• Week 5:

• Week 6:

• Week 7: Unit Testing in Unity

  • Unit Testing Overview

  • Hands-On Editor Testing

• Week 8: Midterm Prep & Midterm

  • Midterm Study Guide

  • Midterm

• Week 9: Midterm Results & Dev Help

• Week 10: Character Animation

  • Character Animation Review

• Week 11: SEDE Conference

• Week 12: Unity Tips

  • Monday - Day / Night Skyboxes and FPS Controllers

  • Wednesday - Final Presentation Preparation

• Week 13: Game Demos

  • Monday - Ian / Taeho

  • Wednesday - Brendan R. / Christian

• Week 14: Game Demos

  • Monday - Samantha / Ryan

  • Wednesday - Travis / Byran

Assignments:

• Homework 1

• Homework 2

Project:

• High Concept Document

• Final Project Design Document Template

Handouts:

• Dr. Redei’s Recommendations for Commenting Best Practices

• Midterm Study Guide

Code

• Example Skybox Asset

• Example FPS Controller (Walking)

Number of students: 14

Just a friendly reminder that everyone should be using Unity version 2019.4.5f1 LTS for their games