CIS 487/587 Lecture Notes

• Overview and Game History
• Game Evaluation
• Game Design
• Gameplay and Interactivity
• Game Theory and Game Balance
• Game Look and Feel
• Interactive Fiction
• Inform
  • Inform Tutorial (Reese - Alice Through the Looking Glass)
  • Alice Tutorial Part 2 (Atkinson).
  • Alice Tutorial Part 3 (Wood).
  • Inform Writer's Guide for Beginners
  • Old Versions of Inform Designers Manual Referenced in Tutorials
• Game Design Documents
• Action Script Basics
• Flash Game Framework
• Sprite Sheet Animation
• Flash Shooter
• Flash Tiling Game
• Windows Programming
• DirectX and Visual Studio Set-up (2005, 2008)
  • Visual Studio Project Files (2010)
  • Visual Studio Project Files (2008)
  • Visual Studio Project Files (2005)
  • Visual Studio Project Files (6.0, 2002, 2003)
  • Andre Lamothe's DirectX Book Samples Revised for Visual Studio 2008
• Windows GDI Programming
• Windows Goodies
• DirectX
  • DirectX Programming (David Joffe)
  • DirectX 9 for C++ Tutorial (Riemers)
• 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
• Hueristic Programming
• Game AI
• Use of Sound in Games
• Level Design
• Debugging and Playtesting
• Torque Basics
  Intro to the Torque Game Engine (may require Garage Games login)
• Using Torque Constructor to Create Objects
• Torque Scripting
• Torque Programming
  Kevin Harris Code Sampler Tutorials
• Torque Animation
• Torque Bots and Damage
• Torque - Enemy AI
  • AI Guard - (based on Finney's code)
  • Pathed Shooter - (based on Finney's code)
  • Final server/game.cs script (based on Finney's code)
• Torque - Group Behavior
  • Leaderless Swarm - (based on Finney's code)
  • Chasing Swarm - (based on Finney's code)
• Torque - Interactive AI
  • AIT Client - (based on Finney's code)
  • AIT Server - (based on Finney's code)
  • AIT Commands - (based on Finney's code)
  • AIT GUI - (based on Finney's code)
• Computer Game Marketing
• Computer Game Development
• Data Driven Game Design (Schumaker)
• Development Tools