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Date Topic Assignments and Tests Games
Tues Jan 19 introduction to serious games team presentation preferences and individual critique preferences due at 7 pm on Thursday team meetings begin (meet and greet)
Thurs Jan 21 introduction to games
Reading: What is a Game?		 team presentation preferences and individual critique preferences due at 7 pm
assignment 1 given
Fri Jan 22 software engineering overview
Tues Jan 26 client presentations
proposals schedule
No reading today 		game preferences due at 8 pm. assignments posted by end of week
Thurs Jan 28 software architectures for games
Reading: State 		assignment 1 due 10 pm Friday
Tues Feb 2 procedural generation (Team Ellerbe)
Reading: Procedural Generation – A Comprehensive Guide Put in Simple Words
Thurs Feb 4 gameplay and mechanics
Reading: Gameplay		 assignment 2 posted
Fri Feb 5 github
Tues Feb 9 balance
Reading: Understanding Balance in Video Games		 individual development environment and initial design due at recitation
Thurs Feb 11 level design (Team Landmines)
Reading: Ten Principles of Good Level Design		 assignment 2 due
Tues Feb 16 NO CLASS (WELLNESS DAY) sprint 1 (design and team environment) ends at this week's recitation.
Thurs Feb 18 NO CLASS (ICE DAY)
Fri Feb 19 Online Databases and Hosting
Tues Feb 23 narrative and story (Team Scam)
Reading: Should games have stories?
Habitica (Kulkarni) 		assignment 3 posted
Thurs Feb 25 characters (Team Boole)
Reading: Game NPC Design - Why We Relate to A Pile of Code and Pixels
Cyber Manhunt (Chen Y)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Ji)
Tues Mar 2 graphics styles and implementation (Team Tune)
Reading: The Different Graphic Styles of Gaming
osu! (Tse)
Rocksmith 2014 (Cogdell) 		assignment 3 due sprint 2 ends at this week's recitation
Thurs Mar 4 sound and music (Team Journey)
Reading: Part 2 – Music and Sound Effects, a Labor of Love
Gran Turismo 6 (Rampel)
Superliminal (Lee) 		assignment 4 posted
Fri Mar 5 game demos 1
Tues Mar 9 game worlds and physics (Team Mathworld)
Reading: Living Worlds: The Ecology of Game Design
Crusader Kings 3 (Dundigalla)
Thurs Mar 11 NO CLASS (WELLNESS DAY)
Tues Mar 16 gender
No reading assignment
Shin Megami Tensei (Cronin)
Sid Meier's Civilization V (Humphries)
To the Moon (Mango) 		assignment 4 due sprint 3 completes at this week's recitation
Thurs Mar 18 diversity, games and social justice
Reading: 4 Games to Incorporate Social Justice Into Your Classroom
Logical Journey of the Zoombinis(Mcgrew)
Oxygen Not Included (Martin)
Tues Mar 23 diversity, games and social justice (cont)
No reading assignment
Façade (Bunze)
Papers, Please (Tran) 		assignment 5 posted
Thurs Mar 25 customization and assessment
Reading: The Importance of Modding
Rollercoaster Tycoon (Senthilkumar)
Tues Mar 30 evoking emotions and violence in games (Team Moba)
Reading: Eight Ways Videogames Generate Emotion
Amnesia: The Dark Descent (Rende) 		assignment 5 due sprint 4 completes at this week's recitation
Thurs Apr 1 Guest Speakers: Gary Bishop and Diane Brauner (PPTX, handout), accessibility (Tar Heel Gameplay)
Reading: How Accessible Were 2020's Biggest Games? (video)
Shadow of the Colossus (Wheeler L) 		assignment 6 posted
Tues Apr 6 Announcement
AI and machine learning (Team ChildSafe)
Reading: History of AI Design in Video Games and Its Development in RTS Games
Crazy Taxi (Barguti)
Thurs Apr 8 mobile games
Reading: How to Design a Mobile Game So Addictive It’s Almost Irresponsible
Never Alone (Lopez)
Bastion (Pan)
Investopedia (Yanmis)
Zombies, Run! (Medampalle) 		assignment 6 due Sunday, April 11 at 10 pm
Tues Apr 13 AR and VR (Team Summation)
Reading: 6 Benefits and 5 Examples of Augmented Reality in Education or How VR In Education Will Change How We Learn And Teach
Minecraft Redstone (Wheeler M) 		sprint 5 completes at this week's recitation
Thurs Apr 15 Factorio (Gu)
Math Blasters (Rahmouni) 		Assignment 7: Machine Learning to Better Balance Challenge posted game demos 2 (part 1)
Scambusters
Promised Land Journey
Forward
Ellerbe Creek Animals
Stork Shipping Co.
Fri Apr 16 game demos 2 (part 2)
Name That Summation
Booly
Name That Tune
Experimental Moba
I AM In My World
Tues Apr 20 games in education
Reading: Digital Games: Powerful Motivation Tool or Not So Much?
Ring Fit Adventure (Evans)
Bioshock (Falcinelli)
Braid (Errico)
Thurs Apr 22 endgame and games in health
Reading: Study: Video games can help Veterans recover from mental health challenges
Elegy for a Dead World (Heo)
Influent (Dutta) 		Assignment 7: Machine Learning to Better Balance Challenge due
Tues Apr 27 games in training and the military
Reading: 2 Reasons Microsoft Stock Could Hit $400 This Year Brain Age (Chen M)
America's Army (Deng) 		sprint 6 completes at this week's recitation
Thurs Apr 29 Practice Handoff (part 1)
Fri Apr 30 Practice Handoff (part 2) CANCELLED
Tues May 4 games for social change
Reading: SPENT
Journey (Lu)
Undertale (Furr)
Tues May 11 Final game presentations at noon
schedule
Zoom link		 final code and documentation due at noon (see Deliverables for details)