CIS 487/587 Lecture Notes

• Overview and Game History
• Interactive Fiction
  • Inform Tutorial (Reese - Alice Through the Looking Glass)
  • Inform Writer's Guide for Beginners
• Game Evaluation
• Game Design
• Game Design Documents
• Game Theory
• Windows Programming
  • Windows Programming Tutorial
  • Windows Programming Tutorial (Sunlight)
• Windows GDI Programming
• Windows Goodies
• DirectX
  • DirectX Programming (David Joffe)
  • DirectX Tutorial (Sunlight)
• DirectDraw Basics
• DirectDraw and Bitmaps - Part 1
• DirectDraw and Bitmaps - Part 2
• DirectDraw and Bitmaps - Part 3
• 2D Graphics
• Scrolling and Panning
• Game Physics
• User Interface Design
• Game Interaction Devices (incomplete)
• Hueristic Programming
• Game AI
• 3D Graphics (Laird)
• Use of Sound in Games
• Level Design
• Playtesting (incomlete)
• Computer Game Marketing
• Computer Game Development
• Data Driven Game Design (Schumaker)