Students will create a narrative for a game, storyboards to describe the characters and interactions, analyze and describe the target market and platform (PC, Mac, mobile device, downloadable app), and create a formal game design proposal. 

Students will develop their game designs through a prototype development cycle leading to a complete and user-tested product, using a development system that does not require traditional programming. 

The course will be taught as a hybrid course, with lab time for group meetings, projects, presentations and game development work, with grading emphasis on the project proposal, development, presentations, and completed game

Textbook:

Under Construction!

First day of class:	Syllabus, Textbook, Grading
Designing Good Games (pdf)	Game Types & demos
hit the ball executable Gamemaker 7 File	Easy first game: hit the Ball
Space Cleaner executable Gamemaker 7 File	"Asteroid" type game: Space Cleaner
Street Racing executable Gamemaker 7 File	Car Driving type game: Street Racing A scrolling game
Treasure executable Gamemaker 7 File	A Pac Man style game: Treasure
1945_7 executable Gamemaker 7 zip file (7 versions)	Airplane scrolling shooter: 1945_7 A scrolling-shooter tutorial
maze game executable Gamemaker 7 zip file (4 versions)	Maze Game: A maze-game tutorial
platform game executable Gamemaker 7 zip file (5 versions)	A "Mario"-type game: Princess&Dino A platform-game tutorial
parallel executable Gamemaker 7 zip file (4 versions)	4 types of 3-D games A simple 3-D tutorial
Other Game Types	1st Person Shooter Boardgames Card games Strategy games (chess, go, etc) Educational games Massively muliplayer games Airplane simulators Real-time military simulations
WarGame executable Beta-version demo	A historic war-game strategy-board game style
August 24: Maze Game Zip file Gamemaker Tutorial	Building a maze game in 4 versions Modifications
August 24: maze game exercises	maze game in-class exercises and homework
August 31: Scrolling-shooter zip file (7 versions) Scrolling Shooter	1945 game: Scrolling shooter game walk-throughs
August 31: scrolling-shooter exercises	scrolling-shooter game in-class exercises and homework
Sept 14: Platform Game zip file (5 ver)	Platform Games (like Mario)
Sept 14: platform-game exercises	platform-game in-class exercises and homework
Sept 14: Paper Requirements	Game Design Mini-Paper Assigned. Due Sept 28. Due Date Extended to October 5.
Sept 28: Games with depth (4 versions)	Working with Depth, adventure games like Legend of Zelda
Sept 28: depth exercises and mini-project in 4 phases	Games with depth exercises, and mini-project in 4 phases.
Sept 28: Individual game assignment	Each student will develop and present to the class, their own Gamemaker game. Due October 12.
Oct 5: Paper turn in and presentations	Game company paper turn-in and presentations
Oct 12: Individual Game Project Demos and Evaluations	Individual Game Presentations
Oct 19: Project Team Formation	Project Team Formation Team Project Requirements Conference/Final Option Game Market Evaluation, and Game Storyboard Presentations
Oct 26:	Game Market Evaluation Due
Nov 2	Game concept & storyboard presentation Gamemaker Window Demo. A gamemaker file that includes the ability to create a small menu. The menu has a button to create windows (may create multiple). Each window creates a close_window button (forward and backward object links). Illustrates small gamemaker scripts. Window Demo
Nov 9:	Work on Project Submission Format Suggestion
Presentations Nov 16	Alpha_Testing and Rehearsing Conference Presentations
DGIC09	Major Extra-Credit Presentation Opportunity! Optional Conference Presentation can also count as your final exam. Game Design Conference, Nov 20-21
Nov 23:	Work on Project
Nov 30:	Our Last Class Day,Formal Beta Testing & Peer Evaluations
Dec 7:	Final Exam Period 9PM - 11PM Final game presentations