Calendar for CS 596 3d Game Programming

Calendar for CS 596 3d Game Programming - Spr 08

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Wednesday, May 14 1530-1730 - Our Class Final Exam
Groups evolving [29April08]
28Apr08-07May08 - Groups preview their game
25April08 - Your Individual Research Report is due - Email document as attachment to stewart@rohan.sdsu.edu, with subject field indicating course and project, by Midnight.

[Week14: 05May08] - Continued Rehearsal for groups to present game NA VideoGame crash of 1983 [History you should know]; WGBH and ACM Reshape Computing Image [with NSF support] Monday - Presentatoinss - Team High Bluff, Teams 8, 6, and 3 Wednesday - Presentations - Team SinTax, Team Ate and Tean BrainFactory

[Week13: 28April08} - Rehearsals for groups to present game Fog Machine improved Graphics [UCSD/CS] xbox 360 live [Message for J Thadius] Wednesday / DevMaster Letterman/Gates Monday / Team 5 (Casey L., Abe A., David K., Ben T.) and Team 9 (Peter D./P., Dinh K., Abshisek S., Gaurav V., Greg W.) preview a draft version of their team game - from podium - class feedback

[Week12: 21April08] Wednesday / Feedback from my studio tour of High Moon Studios and a e-brochure. Careers Career [ you should be able to show your "passion" for game development and provide evidence of working with a group ] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw [Head Tracking for Desktop VR - You Tube Video from www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny - Johnny Lee] www.fraps.com Fraps - real-time video capture & benchmarking - ensure a successful game experience - demo in class Wed Using Showtool with SDSC's Female Warrior. GPGT FAQ Useful to read now that you are more knowledgable. [Zip File] PDF [Question #6, #7 useful] Monday / to ensure presentations go smoothly next week, and on the day of the final exam, groups pledge which day to present draft of their game. Week 13: Week 14: What can you tell me about High Moon Studios? [Carlsbad] invited to visit tomorrow

[Week11: 14April08] - Groups Monday / Wednesday Group update

[Week10: 07April08] - Begins the Final 5 Weeks of Spring 2008 Semester

Wednesday Group update
Monday

GarageGames Instant Action [ Josh Williams GG Online]

Networking from K Finney text UDP [networking for multiplayer games]; Keeping computer games off your network [Anticipating our campus response?] Cost of lack of Network Security [03Apr2008] Wikipedia - TCP/UDP port numbers
Does this characterize you? www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o From: mwesch About This Video: (more) Added: October 12, 2007 a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University. Music by Try^d: http://tryad.org/listen.html

[Week9: 24March08]

Wednesday - Groups describe their game-Vision. Distribute TGE 1.5 to groups
Groups
Building Consensus from Process Guides [by Professor Bernie Dodge, SDSU]
Monday - Groups specify their game - mod of existing game [TGE 1.5 or text]

[Week8: 17March08]
Wednesday

Forming groups [19March08]
from Creating a Great Design Doc [start working on your Concept Paper recognizing this class is NOT a game-production studio]

Table 1. The three stages of documentation.

Contents

Purpose

1. Concept Paper Genre; target audience; description; most compelling features; market information; cost and time to develop. It defines the concept, scope, worthiness and feasibility; sells the idea to your client, publisher, employer, and venture capitalist.

2. Design Document Description of the body and soul of the entire project, with all the details, and the method by which each element will be implemented. It ensures that what is produced is what you want to produce.

3. Production Documents Time-management charts (Gantt, PERT, and so on); task database; budget spreadsheet; technical specifications; Q/A database. It implements the design document on time and within budget.

from Huntsman Primer-1 -2 -3 Template [ How many skill sets in your group? ]
1.5 to 1.8 Tasks & Questions for: * Designers * Programmers * Artists o 2D o Modelers o Motion * Sounds

Monday
FRAPS Movie Makes useful to capture game play
Identifying groups for the Group Game semester project Vision Statement revisted from last week
CACM
3 articles "Centrality and Prestige of CACM", "The Next 50 Years" and "Cyber-commons: Merging Real and Virtual Worlds" - (articles & references)

[Week7: 10March08] (Stewart was ill 05march08 & 10march08] Your MazeRunner due Wed 12March08 by midnight in GMCS account
Wednesday
Group Vision Statement
Using Show Tool to examine available Character / Models

[Week6: 03March08]
Monday
Volunteers to demonstrate a game at Explore SDSU Open House? 15March08 [GMCS421]
Errata from Author FAQ [From Author]
Your Individual Work Preferences Taxonomy of Games from Chris Crawford, Art of Computer Game Design, 1982.
A Game (emaga) Folder Tree [from Ken Finney text] view of the Common Scripts [personal goal - replace with representation of MazeRunner Advanced]

[Week5: 25Feb08] Your Research Topic Due 29Feb08 ** After you find Scholarly Refs ** (Paper Due 25April08)
Wednesday
Game Programmers Guide to Torque Ed Maruina III. FYI: GarageGames has a Public Forum dealing with our textbook [GPGT]
Network [GPGT 2.1.15 Client-Server Architecture Torque Game Engine]
Monday
Game Programming Organization
Game Programmers Guide to Torque GPGT [detailed TOC - includes Lessons]

[Week4: 18Feb08]
Wednesday
First Programming Assignment [Due Wed 12March08 by midnight]
3d Concepts, Micrsoft offers Visual Studio free [cute game toon], and Brain/Mind/Machine [film today]
Gui_Tutorial.doc [Michael Perry]

Table 1. The three stages of documentation.
	Contents	Purpose
1. Concept Paper	Genre; target audience; description; most compelling features; market information; cost and time to develop.	It defines the concept, scope, worthiness and feasibility; sells the idea to your client, publisher, employer, and venture capitalist.
2. Design Document	Description of the body and soul of the entire project, with all the details, and the method by which each element will be implemented.	It ensures that what is produced is what you want to produce.
3. Production Documents	Time-management charts (Gantt, PERT, and so on); task database; budget spreadsheet; technical specifications; Q/A database.	It implements the design document on time and within budget.

Monday

Examine the Torque IDE (TIDE) for its update within the Jedit tool AH1112. (Stewart demos on notebook)

Torque Documentation from GG.
www.zombieshortbus.com/ggtutorials/ [Michael Perry] Starting From Scratch.doc Perhaps useful to you?
Test Remote Desktop Connection - it has been updated and may perform better.
CS583TopicsCovered-update17Feb08.htm To help you plan our efforts.

[Week3: 11Feb08}

Monday Connection to GMCS 425 Complete Lessons thru #3
Wednesday Bottom Up Design for Research Papers

[Week2 04-06 Feb 08]

Monday will set up the Windows Remote Desktop Connection from the AH1112 notebooks back to GMCS 425 systems you logged on to last Wednesday. You will need your class account and password to accomplish this.

its.sdsu.edu/resources/exclassroom/media/laptop_usage_agreement.pdf [Please fill in Monday]
Info Lab Spr 2008
Set up Remote Desktop Connection to GMCS425
A history of GPGT and its online versions [Monday] (Lesson C.0 Setting up Workspace is key)
Computer Game Development [The Big Picture]
Jedit jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it.

[Week1 28-30 Jan 08]

Monday will be take a tour of the installed software on the systems in AH1112. Wednesday we will ensure that your class accounts, GMCS 425, have similar software installations and that you are able to connect between GMCS 425 and AH1112 using Windows XP Remote Desktop Connection.

Chapter 1 [Monday]
Under the Hood of GPGT [Monday]
Torque Game Engine Overview Chaps 1-3 [Monday]
Distribute Notebook Computers in AH1112 [Monday]
A history of GPGT and its online versions [Monday]
Your pledge for responsible computer and network use [Monday]
Set up Remote Desktop Connection to GMCS 425
The Software on the Text CD GPGT install
Text 1.8.2 Game-Building Lessons [Skip ahead to Chapter 14.1 MazeRunner]
Text 14.4 Setting Up Our Workspace
Distribute Class accounts (cs596_aXX), review GMCS 425 CS Lab usage policies, set up Remote Desktop and become familiar with file structures. [Wednesday]
Computer Game Development [The Big Picture]
Lessons #1, #2, #3 [Wednesday] - You want to set up your workspace. {14.4 text]

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