Lecture 09-12-11 Games, Flocking

September 13, 2011

Recap of what is a game (from an “experience creation” point of view, includes the “class project design as game design” ideas) Simulation and discretization Flocking 09-13-11-GamesFlocking

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Project 1 Updates…

September 13, 2011

Information about partners and handins is at Project 1: update: Partners and Handins for P1. Information about milestone 1 (including how to turn it in) is at: Project 1: update: Milestone 1 Instructions My notes on flocking (from 2008) are at http://graphics.cs.wisc.edu/Courses/Games08/Main/Flocking. They are mainly useful because there is a list of links.

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Project 1: update: Milestone 1 Instructions

September 13, 2011

For project 1, Milestone 1, you must (at class time on Firday, September 16th) show that you have “signs of life.” That you have gotten far enough with Javascript and graphics to have a program that has objects moving around on the screen, and that the program responds to user input. The bar is pretty […]

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Project 1: update: Partners and Handins for P1

September 13, 2011

Partners and Hopefully you will soon (on 9/12) receive email from Gautam with your project partner. In that email, you should get the location of your handin directory. It will be a subdirectory of /p/course/cs679-gleicher/handin11/Proj1 although that is how Unix looks at the AFS directory. On Windows XP it would be: p:/course/cs679-gleicher/handin11/Proj1 I am hoping […]

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Project 1 Posted!

September 8, 2011

Project 1 has been posted. We’ve posted it early (your project partner won’t be assigned until next week) to motivate you to start learning some javascript to do the assignment, to start doing some reading about javascript, start looking into what tools to use, etc.

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Tools for Javascript Programming

September 8, 2011

One of the cool things about Javascript is that it is easy to run the program: all you need is a web browser. In terms of the tools for writing Javascript, however, its a bit more open (since the runtime environment isn’t the programming environment). At a basic level, all you need is a text […]

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Project 1: An in-browser flocking game!

September 8, 2011

Your mission in this project is to write a game that runs in a web browser using javascript that implements flocking in some way. The schedule (details on each phase follow later on): Friday, September 9th – partner requests due Monday, September 12 – partners announced, real work begins! Friday, September 16 – signs of […]

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What’s going on in 679 (Sept 7th edition)

September 7, 2011

After class today, a few things came up that everyone should be aware of: Everyone should have an account on this website, and be able to post comments. If you have not successfully done Assignment 1, do it immediately! (even if its just making a post saying a game you played in the past). Remember […]

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Lecture 09-07-11 What is a Game?

September 7, 2011

Lecture by David

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Course Survey

September 7, 2011

Please take the course survey on or before Friday, September 9th.  We’ll need the survey results to assign project partners. The survey is Assignment 2. To access the survey, click here (the survey is on the qualtrics website).

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