Lindeman's Lectures at Osaka University Summer 2013 Materials

	Interactive Media & Game Development Worcester Polytechnic Institute	IMGD

Course Title:	Lindeman's Lectures at Osaka University Summer 2013 Materials
Term	Summer 2013

Meeting Info:	Lectures: July 10 (Wed.) July 17 (Wed.) July 18 (Thu.) July 24 (Wed.) July 31 (Wed.) 10:30am-12Noon Room A110, The Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Suita Campus

Instructor:	Prof. Robert W. Lindeman
E-Mail:	gogo at wpi.edu

Course Objectives:

These lectures are designed to introduce students to the process of game development. The lectures examine the roles of different participants in the development process and how the technical development and the artistic development proceed in tandem. Students actively participate in game development using appropriate game development tools.

There are several objectives for these lectures:

Understand the process of game development
Work with simple game-development tools to build a game
Do some cool stuff!

Projects:

The projects will be game-development assignments. For most projects (see specifications), you will work in groups of 2. Working in groups will give you valuable "real-world" experience as well as provide you with a "built in" source for help.

Project Date DUE Info

Project 1: Get Up To Speed! Fri. 7/12, 06:00pm (ppt) (pdf)

Project 2: Game Inception and Design Fri. 7/19, 11:59pm (ppt) (pdf)

Project 3: Build the Game! Wed. 7/31, 10:00am (ppt) (pdf)

Project 4: Testing & Evaluation Thu. 8/01, 11:59pm (ppt) (pdf)

Project	Date DUE	Info
Project 1: Get Up To Speed!	Fri. 7/12, 06:00pm	(ppt) (pdf)
Project 2: Game Inception and Design	Fri. 7/19, 11:59pm	(ppt) (pdf)
Project 3: Build the Game!	Wed. 7/31, 10:00am	(ppt) (pdf)
Project 4: Testing & Evaluation	Thu. 8/01, 11:59pm	(ppt) (pdf)

Here is a LINK TO PROJECTS FROM 2010

General:

Questions and discussion are highly encouraged throughout the lecture hours. The best way to reach the instructor is by using e-mail.

Course Schedule:

Dates	Lecture Topic	Slides
July 10	Intro. to Game Development	Intro: (ppt) (pdf)
July 17	Game Development Process	Game Development Process: (ppt) (pdf)
July 18	Game Design	Game Design: (ppt) (pdf) FlOw Website Petrified Game Pandora Game
July 24	Level Design	Level Design: (ppt) (pdf)
July 31	Project Presentations

Main Web Resources

Possible sources for content you can use in your games:

Midi World Many different midi (sound) files can be found here.
FlashKit sound effects. A site with a huge number of sound effects (for Flash, but works with others, too).
Video Game Music Archive. Contains midi files of lots of game music.

A list (certainly, not comprehensive) of some of the tools available to help build games:

Introductory game development environments
- Ren'Py
- GameMaker
- Scratch
- Alice
- Gamestar Mechanic
- Power Game Factory (for Mac side-scrollers)
Blitz Basic
Dark Basic

Ren'Py Resources: