Announcements

Congratulations on finishing CSCI E-23a! Final grades will be available through your DCE student portal on 7 January 2025. Happy holidays and new year to you all!

Description

This course picks up where Harvard College’s CS50 leaves off, focusing on the development of 2D and 3D interactive games. Students explore the design of such childhood games as Super Mario Bros., Legend of Zelda, and Portal in a quest to understand how video games themselves are implemented. Via lectures and hands-on projects, the course explores principles of 2D and 3D graphics, animation, sound, and collision detection using frameworks like LÖVE2D and Unity, as well as languages like Lua and C#. By class’s end, students will have programmed several of their own games and gained a thorough understanding of the basics of game design and development.

Table of Contents

Pong

  1. Watch Lecture 0 after 2024-09-03T00:00:00-04:00.
  2. Optionally attend office hours.
  3. Work on Project 0, due 2024-09-08T23:59:00-04:00.

Flappy Bird

  1. Watch Lecture 1 after 2024-09-09T00:00:00-04:00.
  2. Attend one or more sections.
  3. Optionally attend office hours.
  4. Work on Project 1, due 2024-09-15T23:59:00-04:00.

Breakout

  1. Watch Lecture 2 after 2024-09-16T00:00:00-04:00.
  2. Attend one or more sections.
  3. Optionally attend office hours.
  4. Work on Project 2, due 2024-09-22T23:59:00-04:00.

Match 3

  1. Watch Lecture 3 after 2024-09-23T00:00:00-04:00.
  2. Attend one or more sections.
  3. Optionally attend office hours.
  4. Work on Project 3, due 2024-09-29T23:59:00-04:00.

Super Mario Bros.

  1. Watch Lecture 4 after 2024-09-30T00:00:00-04:00.
  2. Attend one or more sections.
  3. Optionally attend office hours.
  4. Work on Project 4, due 2024-10-06T23:59:00-04:00.

Legend of Zelda

  1. Watch Lecture 5 after 2024-10-07T00:00:00-04:00.
  2. Attend one or more sections.
  3. Optionally attend office hours.
  4. Work on Project 5, due 2024-10-13T23:59:00-04:00.

Angry Birds

  1. Watch Lecture 6 after 2024-10-14T00:00:00-04:00.
  2. Attend one or more sections.
  3. Optionally attend office hours.
  4. Work on Project 6, due 2024-10-20T23:59:00-04:00.

Pokémon

  1. Watch Lecture 7 after 2024-10-21T00:00:00-04:00.
  2. Attend one or more sections.
  3. Optionally attend office hours.
  4. Work on Project 7, due 2024-10-27T23:59:00-04:00.

Helicopter Game 3D

  1. Watch Lecture 8 after 2024-11-04T00:00:00-05:00.
  2. Attend one or more sections.
  3. Optionally attend office hours.
  4. Work on Project 8, due 2024-11-10T23:59:00-05:00.

Dreadhalls

  1. Watch Lecture 9 after 2024-11-11T00:00:00-05:00.
  2. Attend one or more sections.
  3. Optionally attend office hours.
  4. Work on Project 9, due 2024-11-17T23:59:00-05:00.
  5. Begin work on the final project, with:
    1. The proposal due 2024-11-24T23:59:00-05:00; and
    2. The status report due 2024-12-08T23:59:00-05:00; and
    3. The implementation due 2024-12-15T23:59:00-05:00.

Portal

  1. Watch Lecture 10 after 2024-11-18T00:00:00-05:00.
  2. Attend one or more sections.
  3. Optionally attend office hours.
  4. Work on Project 10, due 2024-11-24T23:59:00-05:00.
  5. Continue work on the final project, with:
    1. The proposal due 2024-11-24T23:59:00-05:00; and
    2. The status report due 2024-12-08T23:59:00-05:00; and
    3. The implementation due 2024-12-15T23:59:00-05:00.

Portal Problems

  1. Watch Lecture 11 after 2024-11-25T00:00:00-05:00.
  2. There are no sections this week!
  3. Optionally attend office hours.
  4. Complete work on the final project, with:
    1. The proposal due 2024-11-24T23:59:00-05:00; and
    2. The status report due 2024-12-08T23:59:00-05:00; and
    3. The implementation due 2024-12-15T23:59:00-05:00.