Projects for the Game Development Process Class

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Projects for the Game Development Process Class

• Mark Claypool

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Outline

• Game Maker
• Projects
• Discussion

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Game Maker Overview

• Build by Mark Overmars, Ulrecht Univeristy
• 2-D game development environment
• Build games without having to write code
• But includes rich GML (C-like)
• Drag and Drop interface
• Object-Oriented
• Inheritance, Polymorphism, Encapsulation
• 2003, 1.7 Million downloads
• Discussion forum at (forums.gamemaker.nl/)

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Game Maker - Mechanics

• Rooms
• Backgrounds (water)
• Airplane
• Sprites
• Objects
• Events
• Enemies
• Scripts
• Bullets
• Collisions
• Misc
• Scores, Lives, Timelines,

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Game Maker Other Examples

• Tank Brigade
• (Link here to other projects)
• Screen shots?

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Game Maker Related Projects

• StageCast (www.stagecast.com)
• Simple games, targets children
• ClickTeam (www.clickteam.com)
• (Click and Play and The Games Factory)
• Create complex games, but limited programming
• Many, many more
• (www.ambrosine.com/resource.html)

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Outline

• Game Maker
• Projects

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Project Topics

• The Idea Pitch
• Artistic
• Create/modify content
• Technical
• Add/modify to existing game
• Simple programming
• Play Mechanics / Testing

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Discussion

• Should projects build upon each other?
• Constrain content-creation project by resources?
  (Size and/or Number)
• Content-creation of sound effects/music?
• 3-D project?
• How much programming for technical project?
• One project putting it all together?
• Look-back/Post-mortem project?