Outline

CS 4381 Practical Game Development


Final is scheduled for December 11th (Wednesday) between 5:00-6:30pm

Midterm is scheduled for October 23rd between 6:30-7:45pm

Homework 1 is due on September 18

Homework 2 is due on October 30


Schedule is subject to change.

 

Date

Topic

Due

8/28

 

Introduction, (ch 1: math and physics primer study on your own)

 

Overview of a game software architecture (ch 7)

9/4

 

 Perception and Action loop; State driven agent design (ch 2)

9/11

Hw 1 demos

 

Autonomous behaviors (ch 3)

Group behaviours (ch 3)

9/18

Soccer simulation (ch 4), Graphs, search algorithms (ch 5)

Hw1 due

9/25

 

 

Cost based graph searches (ch 5)

 

10/3

 

Hw 2 demos

 

Raven game design (ch 7)

 

10/09

 

Path planning: navigation graph construction (ch 8)

10/16

 

Midterm overview

10/23

 

 Midterm

10/30

 

Path planning: path planner (ch 8)

 Hw2 due

11/6

 

Goal driven agent behavior: examples of goals (ch 9)

11/13

 

Goal driven agent behavior: goal arbitration, spin-offs, Fuzzy logic (ch 10)

11/27

development, presentations

12/4

 

development, presentations

12/11

Final (5pm-6:30pm)

project due

 

 

 

 

E-mail: rp31@txstate.edu