Notes & Material

course notes and material for COMP 488

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Course notes and material will be added to this page during the semester.

This material will be updated on a weekly basis.

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Course notes will be updated during the semester.

Week 15 - 26th April 2019

• extras - final report
  • final report outline

Week 14 - 19th April 2019

• N/A - Easter

Week 13 - 12th April 2019

• course
• extras - design
  • game designers
• extras - final report
  • final report outline

Week 12 - 5th April 2019

• course
• extras - design and dev
  • dramatic elements
• extras - unity
  • getting started
  • basic usage

Week 11 - 29th March 2019

• course
• extras - Pygame
  • fun extras - explosions
• extras - design and dev
  • formal elements
• extras - game example
  • shootemup game

Week 10 - 22nd March 2019

• N/A - Presentations

Week 9 - 15th March 2019

• course
• extras - Pygame
  • drawing - text
  • fun extras - repetitive firing
  • music - intro
  • player - health
  • sprites - animating images
  • sprites - animating random images
• extras - design
  • design mockups & prototypes
  • playtesting and design

Week 8 - 8th March 2019

• N/A - Spring Break

Week 7 - 1st March 2019

• course
• extras - Pygame and sprites
  • sprites - collision detection
  • sprites - collision detection - better
  • sprites - more objects
  • sprites - relative objects

Week 6 - 22nd February 2019

• course
• extras - Pygame and graphics
  • graphics and sprites

Week 5 - 15th February 2019

• N/A - Presentations

Week 4 - 8th February 2019

• course
• extras - game walkthroughs
  • The Legend of Zelda walkthrough
  • Zork game walkthrough
• extras - design
  • design mockups & prototypes
  • Flowcharts
• extras - Pygame and sprites
  • sprites - intro
  • sprites - set image
  • sprites - control

Week 3 - 1st February 2019

• course
• extras - Pygame
  • getting started
  • animation - colour scale
  • events - interaction
  • control and move

Week 2 - 25th January 2019

• course
• extras - Pygame setup
  • Python & Pygame setup - OS X
  • Python & Pygame setup - Windows 10
• extras - Pygame
  • drawing - basic
  • drawing - moving shapes
  • colours

Week 1 - 18th January 2019

• course
• extras
  • Git basics