GDD 211 - Game Lab II

Professor Elena Bertozzi

CAS 322, 203-582-7998, elena.bertozzi@qu.edu

Professor Christopher Blake

CAS , 203-582-, christopher.blake@qu.edu

Peer Catalyst:

Class meets:

Section 1 Mon/Wed 3-4:15 (Blake) Section 2 9-10:15(Bertozzi), Tator Hall 129 and zoom

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GDD 211 Syllabus

Improving skills in game production, teamwork, and prototyping

Expected Learning Outcomes

Expand Unity and C# skills: Animations, UI design, Inheritance
Practice the process of making games: iterative design, playtesting, and analysis
How to document and present game ideas clearly, critically evaluate games, and give clear feedback;
How to work in small teams and manage projects

Additionally we will focus on:

Focused game development to achieve specific goals
Seeking and implementing feedback to improve work
Demonstrated competence with Git

Course Description

This course is a continuation of GDD 210. Students continue to work in teams to build working prototypes while learning about the game development process, project management, play testing and usability testing. In the beginning of the semester we will focus on ideation and improving your game development skills in Unity. The first half of the semester is individual labs where you build your skill set. Then class is dedicated to working on two large team game assignments. These larger projects will consist of presentations, playtesting, critique and in-class demonstrations. Quizzes will ensure that you are keeping up and reinforce skills you will need in later labs.

Methods

Learning game design is similar to learning an applied art and we use the same techniques. In this class you will:

Imitate - replicate what we learn in class so that you know how to do it yourself
Practice - rewrite the code multiple times, build examples over again from scratch
Tweak - change elements of the example and note how the design changes, learn how the code breaks
Innovate - build on the foundation of what you learned to make something different