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Jan 23
Course Introduction
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Jan 25
Video Game Courses
Due: Assignment1
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Jan 30
Rotations
Due: Assignment2
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Feb 1
Principles of Animation
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Feb 6
Animations, Quaternions, Log Maps, Deformations
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Feb 8
More on Rotations
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Feb 13
User Interface Principles
Due: Program 1 Signs of Life
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Feb 15
What Makes Games Fun
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Feb 20
Dan Vondrak, Guest Lecture
Due: Program 1 Demos
Due: Design Partner Assignment
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Feb 22
Game Design Principles
Due: Program 1 Final
Due: (23rd) Ideas Email
Read: Game Design
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Feb 27
Game Project "Pitches"
Due: Game Design Idea
Due: (28th) Game Critiques
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March 1
Applied Game Design
Read: Using Game Design to Achieve other Ends
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March 6
Software
Due: Game Project Proposals
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March 8
Memory Management
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March 13
Graphics Programming
Read:graphics overview
Due: Game Project Plan
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March 15
Low Level Performance
Read:performance
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March 20
High Level Performance
Read:spatial structuring
Due: Game Project Signs of Life Demo
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March 22
Quality Tradeoffs and Image-Based methods
Read:image and lod
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March 27
In-Class Play Testing
Due: Game Project Play Testing
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March 29
TBD
Due: Game Project Final!
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April 3
Spring Break!
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April 5
Spring Break!
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April 10
GPUs and Lighting
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April 12
Spherical Harmonics, PRT, Animation Basics
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April 17
Noise, Example-Based Concepts, Human Animation
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April 19
Rigging and Skinning
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April 24
Motion Capture
Due: Shader Assignment
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April 26
Shader Discussion
Dee: Technical Proposal
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May 1
Physics Basics
Due: Homeworks,ECA
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May 3
Collision detection and response, physics effects
Due: Demo Checkpoint
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May 8
AI (1): Reactiveness, Behaviors, State Machines
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May 10
AI (2): Path Planning, Strategy, Story and Direction
Due (11th):
Homeworks,ECA,Demos
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