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GAME 205 Game Engine Technique

The course's focus is on the practical use of the engine tools learned in GAME 114, Game Engine Fundamentals, and their application to the common processes encountered over the course of commercial video game development. Guided, intensive exercises task students with devising creative implementations of topics that include: conceiving, designing, and balancing a combat system; creating real-time animation using motion capture data; developing a polished cutscene with procedural camera control software; taking a level design from paper layout through to a polished scene using professional world-building tools; and developing specialized artificial intelligence modules for use in their games. Students develop these techniques as solo projects, implementing a unique world construct of their original designs. Each exercise builds upon the previous ones, culminating in a complete, playable and unique game concept realized by the end of the course

Credits

3

Prerequisite

GAME 114