Announcements

• Lecture 6, Pokémon, is now available.
• Attend one section for this lecture during the week of July 31.
• Complete Project 5 by 2023-07-30T23:59:00-04:00.
• Complete Project 6 by 2023-08-04T23:59:00-04:00.
  • You may not use any of your lateness allowance on Project 6, as we cannot accept any student work after the semester concludes.
• Be sure you’ve familiarized yourself with the course’s syllabus, particularly its provisions concerning academic honesty, lateness, and extensions.

Description

This course focuses on the development of 2D games. Students explore the design of such childhood titles as Super Mario Bros., Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon in a quest to understand how video games themselves are implemented. Via lectures and hands-on projects, the course explores principles of 2D graphics, animation, sound, and collision detection using Lua, a dynamic scripting language, and LÖVE, a lightweight 2D game development framework. By course’s end, students 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 on or after Tue 6/20.
2. Attend section.
3. Optionally attend office hours.
4. Work on Project 0, due 2023-06-25T23:59:00-04:00.

Flappy Bird

1. Watch Lecture 1 on or after Mon 6/26.
2. Attend section.
3. Optionally attend office hours.
4. Work on Project 1, due 2023-07-02T23:59:00-04:00.

Match 3

1. Watch Lecture 2 on or after Mon 7/3.
2. Attend section.
3. Optionally attend office hours.
4. Work on Project 2, due 2023-07-09T23:59:00-04:00.

Super Mario Bros.

1. Watch Lecture 3 on or after Mon 7/10.
2. Attend section.
3. Optionally attend office hours.
4. Work on Project 3, due 2023-07-16T23:59:00-04:00.

Legend of Zelda

1. Watch Lecture 4 on or after Mon 7/17.
2. Attend section.
3. Optionally attend office hours.
4. Work on Project 4, due 2023-07-23T23:59:00-04:00.

Angry Birds

1. Watch Lecture 5 on or after Mon 7/24.
2. Attend section.
3. Optionally attend office hours.
4. Work on Project 5, due 2023-07-30T23:59:00-04:00.

Pokémon

1. Watch Lecture 6 on or after Fri 7/28.
2. Attend section.
3. Optionally attend office hours.
4. Work on Project 6, due 2023-08-04T23:59:00-04:00.