CSX070 -- Spring 2008 Introduction to Game Programming

Course meets M 2:30pm GSRC 208, TTh 2:00pm GSRC 303

Instructor: Dr. Jeff W. Smith

Office: 416 Boyd GSRC

Office hours: M 3:30pm, WF 10am, or by appt, email: jws@cs.uga.edu

Teaching Assistant: Kartheek Atluri email: atluri@cs.uga.edu

Office: GSRC 301

Office hours: W 12:30-1:30pm

Teaching Assistant: Anousha Mesbah email: anousha@uga.edu

Office: GSRC 301A.

Office hours: F 10:00-11:00 A.M

Course E-mail address: csx070@cs.uga.edu

Course Web Address: www.cs.uga.edu/~csx070

Academic Honesty Policy

Overview & Schedule:

Monitor this page to find out the Assignments & how to submit computer assignments

Monitor this link to find out about the Final Exam

Required Text: No book required (so far), but there will be readings from such sources as

• Info about the Dev C++ development system is here. and here. Get the latest version (4.9.9.2).

• Info about the SDL development libraries is here. Want the latest version (1.2.13);

• You can get SDL 1.2.13 here Get the development version for win32 and mingw32.

• Intro game and graphics glossary; another gamer terms glossary

• Intro tutorial for game programming is here, click on tutorials

• Intro tutorial for 2D game programming is here

• A different point of view on introductory SDL, has different examples is here

• Intro and example site for printing text w/ SDL_ttf here

• Intro and example site for sound w/ SDL_mixer here

• Interactive tutorial on collision detection here

• Some explanation and examples on project specification here

• A top-level site on the rendering pipeline here

Here are some example games that are similar to the game of Projects 1-5:

• Bunch game example.
• GemShop game example.
• JewelMatch game example.

Here are some example games that are similar to the game of Projects A-?:

• Space Invaders game example.
• Space Invaders another game example.

Here are some sites of general interest (just a click away!):

• Game Developer magazine home page

• Game Developer Conference home page

• Game Programming Wiki Demos and Tutorials home page

• GameDev home page

• Gamasutra home page

After the basics, you might be interested in these topics:

• A good start site for game programming topics is here

• Another site for game programming overview and topics is here

• A history and overview of game consoles

• A site offering a useful STL tutorial

• A software package for constructing tiles and sprites

• A site dedicated to PC games

• A source of texture maps and other graphics resources

• A mathematical treatment of the issues of pursuit

• Tutorial material (in Czech-like language) on shading

• Texture-mapping article and interactive applet

• Overview and Example material on C++ code improvement

• Overview and Example material on cel shading

• commercial sound effects for demo and sale

• aliasing intro

• moire pattern examples

• Sega Genesis emulator

• 2D made game Aquaria

• free game API Allegro

• free shmup game for Windows rRootage

• 3D rendering tutorial

• Game User Interface tutorial

• 3D Animation tutorial and demo

• 3D Studio Max (3ds Max) tutorial demo

• 3D Modeling Tools comparison chart

• Game Engine catalog

• GameFaqs help and bulletin board

• Found by Mr Robt Wilson, a Sprite Library

Today's Quote:

"Education is what remains after everything you've learned has been forgotten." --B. F. Skinner