Lectures

Part 1 (week 1-2): Introduction to Game Technology - Burkhard

• Lecture 1/2: Introduction to Computer Games & the Game Industry
  • Reading: Page 6-10 of Issue 10 of Venture (an Industry New Zealand Magazine).
  • Reading: Lecture handout "Put Your Game Development Education to Work" (from 2003 Game Career guide)
  • Handout 1/2
• Lecture 3: Game Development
  • Reading: Jonathan Blow - "Game Development - Harder Than You Think".
  • Handout 3
• Lecture 4: Game Engine Design
  • Handout 4
• Lecture 5: The Polygon Rendering Pipeline
  • Handout 5
• Lecture 6: Physically-Based Modelling and Animation
  • Handout 6

Part 2 (week 3-4): Ute

1. Lecture 1: Introduction to Games and AI (3.8.2004)
   • Handout given out during the lecture
2. Finite State Machines and Computer Games (5.8.2004)
   • Handout given out during the lecture
   • Sourcecode for the AI engine
   • SourceCode for the FSM class
3. Game Trees (4.8.2004)
   • Handout given out during the lecture
   • Sourcecode for Game Trees
4. Games as a Search Problem - Example: Chess (10.8.2004)
   • Handout given out during the lecture
5. Decision Trees and Rule-Based Systems (12.8.2004)
   • >Handout given out during the lecture
6. Using N-Gram Statistical Models to Predict Player Behaviour and Aspects of Practical Natural Language Learning for Games
   • Handout given out during the lecture
   • Notes presented in class
   Copies of the handouts can be collected from my office, room 303.388.

Part 3 (weeks 5-8): Jarno

• Intro handout

1. Scene organisation
   • Handout 1
   • Sourcecode showing some object rendering methods and extension function usage
   • The latest <gl/glext.h> header file
2. Space subdivision
   • Handout 2
   • Source code for creating a random maze with kD-trees
3. Visibility preprocessing
   • Handout 3
   • Source code for PVS and raycasting for visibility
   • Local copy of the Cube game with source code from http://wouter.fov120.com/cube/
4. Portals and view frustum culling
   • Handout 4
5. Don't forget assignment 3 on the assignments page
6. Handout on Gaggle and network gaming
7. Advanced billboarding
   • Handout 5
   • Source code for the tree&forest rendering using billboards
8. Collision detection
   • Handout 6
9. Terrain rendering with multiple levels of detail
   • Handout 7
10. Vertex and fragment shaders
    • Handout 8
    • The current GLSL specification
11. Shadow and light
    • Handout 9

Part 4 (weeks 9-10): Hans

1. A* Path Planning
   • Handout 1
   • A* Explorer
   • Handout 2
   • Handout 3
2. Skeleton-Based Path Finding
   • Handout 4
3. Fuzzy Logic for Games
   • Handout 5
   • Handout 6

Part 5 (weeks 11-12): Pat

1. Flocking: A simple Technique for Simulating Group Behaviour
2. A Neural Net Primer
3. Aspects of Genetic Programming applied to a Games