1. course introduction and outline

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582-QEQ-07Multimedia Design

Final Project

2012


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About me: Hasan Basri

Im a lecturer in Games Design and DevelopmentCurrently Studying my Master in Digital Media and Games

Technology

I have been working on ICT since 2002

My Honours Thesis was done using C# to simulate a newapproach to Demography in Simfoty Game

Contact Details:

[email protected]

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Ph: 085722220468
mailto:hasanbmg@mailto:basrihasan@mailto:basrihasan@mailto:hasanbmg@


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Course Structure Lectures 3hrs/Week

In Class Project

In Class Project #1 : 10% of your overall mark



Class Participation

5% of your overall mark

No phone Calls

Absences : > 3 Being late > 30 min

Leaving class > 15 min

Final Project

40% of your overall mark

Game Production Late Submission of work

1 week late : -15%

Final Project : Week 15

Consultation Times

Email/Phone me to arrange


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Course Goals

General

Learn how interactive application are

designed and developed

Primary Goals

Learn Actionscript

Design and develop games

Learn how to analyse games so that you can

use your skills on every game you build ever!


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Programming Goals

Quickly Learn to Program Actionscript Development will be using Flash

You need to be able to code sooner rather than

later the earlier you can identify problems the longer you

have to fix them

The faster you learn simple programming, the quickeryou can learn networking and advanced programming


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Game Design and Development

Goals

What is required to make a game?

Learn the many aspects of games design

what makes them fun? what makes a game boring?

Style and Feeling

Wow factors

Game Flow

Player Expectations


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The Final Project

Develop a game

Games will be 2D, not 3D

Most games are developed in at minimum,an 18 month Cycle

You have 1.5 Months!

Thus the goal is to deliver a high quality 2D

game as opposed to a crappy 3D game. Marking will be based around the design and

development of your concept through yourActionscript project.


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Books

There are many books for this course

You WILL learn to LOVE them

Seriously you will never throw these books

out.


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Books Game Design - Bob mates

The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and DesignF. Dille & J.Z. Platten

The Art of Game Design Jesse Schell

Game Development & Production - Erik Bethke

Game Design Workshop: Designing, Prototyping, and

Playtesting Games - Tracy Fullerton, Christopher

Swain and Steven Hoffman

Game Design Theory and Practice - Richard Rouse III

Actionscript 3.0 Cook Book Joey Lott, Darron Schall,

Keith Peters

Actionscript 3.0 Bible - Roger Braunstein, Mims H.

Wright, Joshua J. Noble


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Books

The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing

and Design F. Dille & J.Z. Platten

Its not the ULTIMATE book

For the few dollars it costs it is a life saver

Summed up the things in this book that will

interest us are:

Documenting, and the Development Process This book covers everything we will need for the

development side of the subject.


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Books


This is also called the Game Design Bible

It is not the holy grail, it is pretty darn close

The things that interest us:

This book covers Games Design and thus

inherently covers level design.

The Lenses in this book are a great tool whenused properly. (we will learn!)


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Why buy the books?

This semester we will design and develop

projects in small teams.

The design will be covered by The art of

game design and the development will be

covered by The Ultimate Guide....

Without the books, you will have to work a

lot harder! *Note: I tried to keep the total for the books to a minimum, but we do require both

books


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How to Pass Easily!!

Show up to ALL the Lectures Show up to all the Tutorials

Show up to all the Labs

Seriously, if you sit in every lecture, tutorialand lab you will NOT need to review for the

exam, you will already be able to pass it.


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As for the Assignments...

Spend min 1 hour a week working on thegame design.

This will easily get all of the design and

documentation finished

If your design runs to schedule you should

also be able to get your development done

inside of the classes.

Think about it, your assignment done withoutANY homework.............

Im not saying it is going to be easy, but if you

work in the Tutorials you WILL learn a tonne.


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Tutorials / Labs

These will be run by myself

This is where all of the words I throw at

you during the lectures will start to make

sense.

If you love games, all of this course will be

a load of fun.


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References

Game Level Design, Ed Byrne, 2005,

Charles River Media

The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing

and Design F. Dille & J.Z. Platten


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