| 1 |
Mon 1/08
Wed 1/10 |
Introduction to Game Engines
C# Functions, Control, and .NET |
HW 1: Getting Started
READ: Course Syllabus |
Kitchen Chaos |
| 2 |
Mon 1/15
Wed 1/17 |
No Class (Martin Luther King's Birthday)
Unity: 2D, 3D, AR, VR, MR |
HW 2: Classes and Coroutines
READ: The MDA Framework |
Midterm: Advocacy |
| 3 |
Mon 1/22
Wed 1/24 |
Unity: GetComponents, MeshRenderer
Unity: Awake, Update, Start |
HW 3: AR and XR Foundation
READ: IEEE Game Engine Comparison |
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| 4 |
Mon 1/29
Wed 1/31 |
Unity: Transform and Character Controller
C#: Arrays, Linked Lists, Doubly Linked Lists |
HW 4: Generics and Inheritence
READ: Dual Body Bimanual Coordination |
Checkpoint |
| 5 |
Mon 2/05
Wed 2/07 |
Unity: RigidBody Collisions
Midterm Project Party |
HW 5: Object-Oriented Concepts
READ: CHI Game UX Design & Research |
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| 6 |
Mon 2/12
Wed 2/14 |
Unity: RigidBody Physics
C#: Recursion and Coroutines |
HW 6: 3D Orientations
READ: Fostering Empathy Through Media |
Checkpoint |
| 7 |
Mon 2/19
Wed 2/21 |
No Class (President's Day)
WebGL and ReactJS |
HW 7: Publishing Builds
READ: Commentary for Playtesting |
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| 8 |
Mon 2/26
Wed 2/28 |
Unity: DOTS and ECS
Midterm Playtest with 🔥 Snapchat 🔥 |
HW 8: Raycasting
READ: 3D User Interfaces |
Midterm Due |
| 9 |
Mon 3/04
Wed 3/06 |
Unity uGUI in Worldspace
Unity UIToolkit for In-Game UI |
HW 9: Cinematic Studio
READ: NVIDIA Real-time Raytracing |
Final: Outside the Box |
| 10 |
Mon 3/11
Wed 3/13 |
No Class (Spring Recess)
No Class (Spring Recess) |
HW 10: Illumination
READ: MIT Spatial Computing |
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| 11 |
Mon 3/18
Wed 3/20 |
Game Developer Conference
Game Developer Conference |
HW 11: Shaders and VFX
READ: Vulkan Rendering for Multimedia |
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| 12 |
Mon 3/25
Wed 3/27 |
Rigging and Humanoid Animation
Advanced Cameras and Cinemachine |
HW 12: Hugging Face Unity API
READ: AI and Cinema |
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| 13 |
Mon 4/01
Wed 4/03 |
Yarn Spinner Language Selection
Yarn Spinner Variable Management |
HW 13: Unity ML-Agents Toolkit
READ: Narrative Categorization |
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| 14 |
Mon 4/08
Wed 4/10 |
C#: Delegates and Polymorphism
C#: Vectors, Matrix, Quaternions |
HW 14: Delegates and Events
READ: Machine Learning Agents |
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| 15 |
Mon 4/15
Wed 4/17
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Playtest and Code Review
Unity Mathematics vs Mathf |
HW 15: Polymorphism
READ: Google Generative AI Art |
Code Review |
| 16 |
Mon 4/22
Wed 4/24 |
Navigation AI: A* Algorithm
Custom Pathfinding Algorithms |
HW 16: Dot and Cross Product
READ: Heuristics in Game AI |
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| 17 |
Mon 4/29
Wed 5/01 |
Final Playtest and Presentation
Oculus SDK and visionOS Workshop |
HW 17: A* Algorithm
READ: Game Dev Portfolios |
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| 18 |
Mon 5/06
Wed 5/08 |
iOS/Android Mobile Workshop
Lua for Game Consoles Workshop |
HW 18: Technical Interviews
READ: Unity Interview Questions |
Final Project Due |