NIE2222 Computer Games Development

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NIE2222 Computer Games Development

• Introduction

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Rules

• No Food/Drinks No excuses.
• NO MOBILE PHONES
• No playing games Unless you wrote them.
• NO MOBILE PHONES

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Where to find things

• Blackboard
• compeng.hud.ac.uk/sengsjc/NIE2222/lectures/
• J\sam_clayton\nie2222\

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Learning OutcomesKnowledge and Understanding

• Understands the relationship between a games
  development API, graphics/physics engine and the
  hardware of the target system
• Understands the fundamentals of 3D graphics
  programming
• Understands the important characteristics and
  development process for games media components

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Learning OutcomesAbility

• Can write structured computer games programs
• Can integrate external media into computer games

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Outline Syllabus

• Use of existing APIs high-level comparisons
• Games programming techniques
• Introduction to 3D graphics
• Projective Geometry
• Matrices, shear/rotation/inverse matrices,
  normalisation, Gimbal lock, quaternions,
  homogenous coordinates and projective space
• Hardware and Software acceleration.
• Page flipping and buffering.
• Hardware considerations use of assembler, DMA,
  interrupts, pipelines, coprocessors and graphics
  hardware.

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Outline Syllabus

• Design and implementation of graphics engines.
• Design and implementation of physics engines.
• Programming AI in games environments vehicles,
  characters etc
• Project planning and documentation.
• High-level games program design, decomposition
  and refinement.
• Games programming style.
• Introduction to the principles of working in
  development teams.
• Awareness of other teams and their contributions
  3D modelling, artwork, sound
• Careers in the computer games industry.

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Assignments

• Two assignment 50 each