AGame CurriculumYou Can Implement

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A Game Curriculum You Can Implement
Farhad JavidiChair, Simulation Game
Development programChair, Simulation, Modeling
and Visualization CenterChair, eLearning Course
Quality Committee farhad.javidi_at_cpcc.edu
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Central Piedmont Community CollegeSimulation and
Game Development

• CPCC created the first state-approved Simulation
  and Game Development degree program in the nation
  in 2005.  
• http//cpcc.edu/sgd
• The Simulation and Game Development curriculum
  provides a broad background in simulation and
  game development with practical applications in
  creative arts, visual arts, audio/video
  technology, creative writing, modeling, design,
  programming and management. Students receive
  hands-on training in design, 3D modeling,
  software engineering, database administration and
  programming for the purpose of creating
  simulations and games.

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SGD DegreeSimulation and Game Development

• Graduates may qualify for employment as
  designers, artists, animators, programmers,
  database administrators, testers, quality
  assurance analysts, engineers and administrators
  in the entertainment industry, the health care
  industry, engineering, forensics, education, NASA
  and government agencies.
• Among the tools used in the program are 3ds Max
  Studio, Maya, Torque Game Engines, Game Maker,
  Flash, MS Silverlight, Adobe Premiere Pro, MS
  Visual Studio, Adobe Photoshop, ZBrush, Mudbox3D
  and Unreal Engine and Unreal Engine.  Students
  use various programming languages and scripts to
  create their simulations and games, including
  C, C, J2E, VB, Python, Java and Action
  Script.

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SGD Courses

• All 29 SGD courses meet rigorous national
  standards for online delivery and are offered for
  fully online delivery in local and international
  markets. The program maintains contact with local
  game development companies, including Red Storm,
  Epic Games and Virtual Heroes as well as one of
  the most active IGDA chapters in the nation, the
  Triangle Chapter. The program also offers
  thirteen certificates.

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Total of 49 hrs SGD and Interest

• General Courses 18 hrs
• CORE Required Courses 15 hrs
• SGD111 Introduction to SGD
• SGD112 SGD Design
• SGD114 3D Modeling
• SGD212 SGD Design II
• SGD289 SGD Project
• Programming. Select one 3 hrs
• CSC134 C Programming
• CSC151 JAVA Programming
• CSC153 C Programming
• SGD113 SGD Programming
• Additional 12 hrs from SGD courses to make a
  total of 30 SGD hrs.
• 19 hrs to be selected from the following
  prefixes
• ARC, ART, BUS, CIS, COE, CSC, CTS, DAN, DBA, DDF,
  DEA, DES, DFT, DME, DRA, ECO, ENT, FVP, GAM, GRA,
  GRD, GIS, MUS, NET, NOS, PHO, SGD, SGR, and WEB

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All you Need to Offer

• SGD111 Introduction to SGD
• SGD112 SGD Design
• SGD114 3D Modeling
• SGD212 SGD Design II
• SGD289 SGD Project

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CPCC Game Development Team Advanced to World
Finals of Microsofts Imagine Cup

• Game title New World Africa
• Team name SGD Monkeys
• Team members Farhad Javidi, Nick Klingensmith,
  Danny Helms
• Submitted to ImagineCup 2009 International Game
  Development Competition
• Team status Finalist, World Championship
  Competition, Cairo, Egypt

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Microsofts Imagine Cup

• Open to students around the world, the Imagine
  Cup is an annual competition that drew more than
  300,000 students from 100 countries in 2009.  The
  contest spans a year, beginning with local,
  regional and online contests whose winners
  participate in the global finals held in a
  different location every year.  Now in its
  seventh year, the Imagine Cup encourages young
  people to apply their imagination, passion and
  creativity to technology innovations that tackle
  the toughest challenges facing the world today.

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Video

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v2NVZdNV_7Jc

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Microsofts Imagine Cup

• Microsofts Imagine Cup is a global competition
  focused on developing solutions to real world
  problems.
• The Imagine Cup is the Olympics of Game
  Development.  
• It provides an opportunity for students who've
  always enjoyed playing games to create their own
  game while at the same the same time help change
  the global community. They see how technology can
  transform ideas into real world solutions.  The
  competition is a great opportunity for students
  to advance in their careers, as either game
  developers or entrepreneurs in the game business.

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Microsofts Imagine Cup

• The Imagine Cup challenges the brightest students
  from around the globe to use Microsoft technology
  to solve our biggest challenges starvation,
  disease, environmental shifts.  The problems seem
  overwhelming but the answers are all around us in
  thousands of ideas that happen every day.
  Solutions might be in the next few lines of code,
  a compelling photo or even a simple video game
  that can teach the world a lesson.  These small
  sparks set the world's imagination on fire and
  lead to change that really matters.  Technology
  can be the force that transforms these great
  ideas into real world solutions.  And that's the
  point of the Imagine Cup every year - to use
  technology to make a difference.

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CPCC Game Development Team Advanced to World
Finals of Microsofts Imagine Cup

• CPCCs team, SGD Monkeys, is one of only six Game
  Development teams advancing to the final round of
  competition, which will take place in Cairo,
  Egypt.

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New World Africa

• New World Africa is a city building game that
  combines addictive elements from casual games
  with thought-provoking elements from strategy
  games in order to draw players in and make them
  aware of Africa's current status and what it
  would take to bring Africa out of Third World
  status.  The game is designed for Xbox 360.  It
  takes advantage of the JigLibX physics library
  for realistically determining collisions, as well
  as a modified version of the Skinned Model
  library to support skeletal animation.

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New World Africa

• CPCCs game, New World Africa, simulates the use
  of modern technologies within a Third World
  country.  The primary objective of the game is to
  improve the overall health, education,
  environment and prosperity of the players
  country by one hundred percent. 

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Video

• http//www.javidi.com/nwa.wmv

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Competition Categories

• Software Design This is the only Imagine Cup
  competition that is run locally each year in
  countries/regions all around the globe. The
  mission is simple create real world software and
  services applications that use Microsoft tools
  and technology.  It's not just about the PC
  anymore - students need to think about taking
  advantage of mobile devices as well.  Think big! 
  The judging requires students to use their
  creativity and drive if they want to compete on
  the world stage.  This is where legends are born
  and lives are changed - where an application
  starts as an idea and ends up being used all over
  the world.   

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Competition Categories

• Game Design The object of the Game Design competi
  tion is to create a new game that uses both
  Microsoft's XNA Game Studio 3.0 and Visual
  Studio. Competitors' games should illustrate the
  Imagine Cup theme "Imagine a world where
  technology helps solve the toughest
  problems." This is a chance for students who've
  always enjoyed playing games to create their own
  game and at the same time help change the global
  community. The Game Design competition is a great
  opportunity for learning and advancement towards
  an important step in their budding careers either
  as a game developer or as an entrepreneur in the
  game business. This is the students' opportunity
  to build a full game from scratch!

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Competition Categories

• Digital Media The popularity of homemade videos
  created via editing pictures, text, music, voice,
  and video footage has exploded with the
  easy-to-use processes available to post them on
  websites around the world. The Digital Media
  competition challenges students around the world
  to use their creativity to create web videos by
  combining user-generated content in order to
  address the Imagine Cup theme. Submissions will
  use the internet to communicate, explain, and
  touch on issues in our global society. Your team
  will need to convey its message in a brief period
  of time while also being visually and audibly
  stimulating.

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Other Competitions

• Dream Build Playhttp//www.dreambuildplay.com/
• Independent Games Festivalhttp//www.igf.com
• GameStop http//www.gamestop.com/ GameStop is
  teaming up with The Guildhall game development
  graduate program at Southern Methodist University
  and the Academy of Interactive Arts Sciences to
  create the Indie Game Challenge. The contest
  invites both professional and non-professional
  game developers to submit betas and pitches,
  which will be judged by officials from the AIAS.
  The Challenge is open to submissions from July 14
  through October 1, 2009. Twelve finalists chosen
  by the AIAS will have their games shown at the
  AIAS's annual Design, Innovate, Communicate,
  Entertain (D.I.C.E.) Summit. The grand prize
  winner in both the professional and
  non-professional categories will receive
  100,000. In total, contest winners could win up
  to 300,000 in prize money and scholarships. The
  real reason anyone would want to get in on this
  contest is to get the attention of big name game
  publishers like Sony, Nintendo, Electronic Arts,
  Capcom, Microsoft, NAMCO/Bandai, THQ and Ubisoft.
  According to the Challenge press release, winners
  will score meetings with these companies so that
  "competitors can receive valuable input and
  have the opportunity to open up commercial
  avenues for their games."

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Questions? Comments?