MCAD LS3222

Extra Credit Available, Due Sat 16th

Marc — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:19:49 +0000

For anyone interested in improving their grade, extra credit will be available. You can do one or more Apple ][ or Atari VCS reviews, each well done review will increase your grade by one-half letter grade (from a C to a C+, or from a C+ to a B-, for instance). Extra credit is due on Sat by 6pm.

Also, if you’re interested in doing something beyond the assignments above, please contact me, I’m open for suggestions, as long as they are equivalent sized work. In the past, people have composed audio on a 2600, created custom sprites for Mario Bros. and more. You can definitely have fun doing this.

Grades updated, May 13, 9pm

Marc — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:12:46 +0000

Grades have been updated, you can view them here.

Contact me if you have any questions.

Grades Updated!

Marc — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:02:24 +0000

Grades have been updated as of 11pm Friday May 8.

Contact me if you have any questions -

Assignment 3, Due April 29

Marc — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:04:49 +0000

Assignment 3 was given, and due by the start of class on Wed April 29. Download here.

All of the game assignments can be played on virtualapple.org on a Mac or a PC:

If you have any questions or problems, please ask!

Class On April 8 Will Be Off Campus

Marc — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:27:31 +0000

For our class this Wednesday, we’ll be attending a talk by Sandra Voelker, Senior Technical Artist, Electronic Arts:

Electronic Arts, Dead Space – Creature creation, from Concept to Gameplay. The vision can start with movie clips, sound bites, or photographs. A story is drafted and refined. Then it’s sent to concept artists to be sketched and sculpted until that vision can be understood by all. This process is tested even further when working with teams all over the globe trying to achieve a single goal : “To Create The Scariest Video Game EVER!”. We will be discussing: How Dead Space dealt with these challenges; How did game limitations lead to character design decisions; What kind of technology was developed to support a global team; And how we created our characters.

This should give us a cool view into moder game creation, specifically focusing on character creation and details around this. It’s an interesting and complex thing to do well, this should be an enlightening discussion.

Full details are here:

http://igda.org/wiki/index.php/IGDA_Twin_Cities

If you have any questions, problems, please email me. Full details have been emailed to everyone in the class.

Assignment 2 Given, Due April 8

Marc — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:48:39 +0000

Our second assignment was given in class tonight:

ls3222-assignment-02.pdf

It’s due in two weeks, the first week back after spring break. If you have any questions, please ask!

Have a great spring break -

Grades Updated Mon March 23

Marc — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:40:24 +0000

Grades are updated – please double check your grades to be sure everything is correct. If anything is not correct, please let me know.

No Class Wed March 18

Marc — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:54:29 +0000

There will be no class Wed March 18th. We’ll resume normall the following week, March 25th.

See you then!

Assignment 1, Due 3/11

Marc — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:34:50 +0000

Your first assignment has been given, you can download the full assignment here:

Assignment1 (pdf)

The short of it is this: design an arcade game from the golden age of arcades (the time period from 1978-1984). You have access to the technology of the day – this may seem limiting, but you have the advantage of seeing all of the games that have been developed since then.

Have fun, contact me with any questions!

Assignment 1 : Survey

Marc — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:14:32 +0000

The first assignment is easy, but it’s important, and requires you to do three things:

Send me your contact information
Register as user on this website
Complete a survey on gaming, so I can understand where everyone is at in the class

Download the assignment (click to download / open MS Word file)

Full details are in the assignment, and it’s due by the start of class next week (Jan 28).

Please contact me with any questions.