Calendars

📓 Course Calendar

Week	Date	Lecture	Homework	Project
1	Mon 1/13 Wed 1/15	Introduction to Game Engines Source Control: Git and GitHub	HW 1: Welcome Survey READ: Course Syllabus	Project 1
2	Mon 1/20 Wed 1/22	No Class (Martin Luther King) C#: Functions, Control, and .NET	HW 2: Getting Started READ: The MDA Framework
3	Mon 1/27 Wed 1/29 Unreal	C#: Methods, Classes, Functions Unity: Physically Based Rendering Unreal: Introduction to Unreal Engine	HW 3: Classes and Coroutines READ: IEEE Game Engine Comparison UNREAL: Your First Hour in Unreal
4	Mon 2/03 Wed 2/05	Unity: Delegates and Event Functions Unity: Shaders with ShaderGraph	HW 4: AR and XR Foundation READ: Dual Body Bimanual Coordination
5	Mon 2/10 Wed 2/12	Unity: Transform and Character Controller Unity: Collisions and RigidBody	HW 5: Generics and Inheritence READ: CHI Game UX Design	Project 1 Due Midterm Project
6	Mon 2/17 Wed 2/19 Unreal	No Class (President's Day) Unity: Arrays, List, Recursion, Coroutines Unreal: Introduction to Blueprints	HW 6: Enumerations READ: Fostering Empathy Through Media UNREAL: Unreal Blueprints
7	Mon 2/24 Wed 2/26	👾 Midterm Playtest Unity: Vectors, Dot and Cross Product	HW 7: 3D Orientations READ: Commentary for Playtesting
8	Mon 3/03 Wed 3/05	Guest Lecture: Python ML Models for Unity Unity/Unreal: 3D Rotations and Positions	HW 8: Yarn Spinner READ: 3D User Interfaces
9	Mon 3/10 Wed 3/12	Unity: uGUI in Worldspace 🎉 Midterm Presentation	HW 9: Cinematic Studio READ: NVIDIA Real-time Raytracing	Midterm Due
10	Mon 3/17 Wed 3/19	No Class (Spring Break) No Class (Spring Break)	HW 10: Hugging Face API READ: MIT Spatial Computing	Final Project
11	Mon 3/24 Wed 3/26	Unity: ReactJS and WebGL Unity: UI Toolkit for In-Game UI	HW 11: AI/ML with Unity READ: Vulkan Rendering for Multimedia
12	Mon 3/31 Wed 4/02	Unity: Mecanim Animation Unity: Effects with VFX Graph	HW 12: Illumination READ: AI and Cinema
13	Mon 4/02 Wed 4/09	Unity: Rigged Animations Unity: Particle Collider VFX (Skinned Mesh)	HW 13: Netcode Multiplayer READ: Narrative Categorization
14	Mon 4/14 Wed 4/16	Unity: Perspective Projection and Cameras 👾 Project Playtest	HW 14: Metahumans Deepfake READ: Machine Learning Agents
15	Mon 4/21 Wed 4/23	Unity: Euler Angles and Quaternions Unity: Pathfinding and Navigation AI	HW 15: Shaders and VFX READ: Google Generative AI Art
16	Mon 4/28 Wed 4/30	👾 Final Playtest 🎉 Final Presentations	HW 16: Interview Tips READ: Heuristics in Game AI	Final Project Due
17	Mon 5/05 Wed 5/07	Virtual Workshop: UE Neural Network Engine Virtual Workshop: UE Learning Agents	HW 17: Semester Survey READ: Learn CPP
18	Mon 5/12 Wed 5/14	Virtual Workshop: VisionOS SDK Virtual Workshop: Oculus SDK	HW 18: Course Evaluations READ: N/A	Project Touchups

✌️ Office Hours Calendar

There will be opportunities for weekly or bi-weekly check-ins with the instructor. These check-ins are for lab and project support in addition to any questions covered or not covered within lecture. Feel free to work with Debbie with your projects and for resume/portfolio help! Below are some time frames Debbie and Jerry are typically available:

MW 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PST (On Campus)