Welcome to Games II, Spring 2009 FINAL EXAM WEEK RESPONSIBILITIES: Key dates for Action Plan as of March 17, 2009 Acknowledgement

Welcome to Games II, Spring 2009

THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR A FANTASTIC SEMESTER!  I LEARNED VOLUMES FROM EVERYONE.

You are all welcome to the "code."  Let me know if you want a copy.

-UW

 

 

FINAL EXAM WEEK RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

PUBLIC DEMOS:

EVERYONE SHOULD ATTEND AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING

 

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE SOFTWARE LOADED ON THE PROPER MACHINES.

 

• Celebration of Student Achievement: Wednesday, April 29, 2:00 - 4:00 PM. Student Center Atrium

  Please set up at 1:45.

  • rice:  Sam & Brian, using Brian & Mike's laptops.
  • TCNJ: Kelly & Joe, using their laptops.
  • SCNL: Vin & Julius, using their laptops.

     

• Celebration of the Arts Showcase: May 1st, 6:00-8:00 PM,  
  • rice: Mike & Brett, Mike & Brian's laptops. 
  • TCNJ: Kelly & Joe, using their laptops.
  • SCNL: Vin & Julius, using their laptops.

 

SLIDE SHOW FOR THE ENTIRE CLASS

 

Please have this ready by Thursday, April 30, 7:00 PM so that Dr. Wolz can take a copy to Villanova. She is presenting on the games course the following morning.

• Brett is coordinating this effort
• Sam is contributing visuals for rice
• Brian Toms is contributing for SCNL
• Kelly is contributing for TCNJ
• Final version should be linked from here: Whole Slideshow!.pptx

 

Final Exam time: May 5, Tuesday, 10:30 AM-1:30 PM

• You must attend unless you make prior confirmed arrangements with Dr. Wolz. 
• Hand deliver your take home exam during that time slot. It will be posted HERE on April 28. 
• Confirm that your individual deliverables are posted on the web. (4 reports, the final one due on May 5.) 
  • Deliverables Reports

 

Key dates for Action Plan as of March 17, 2009

• Accepted Students Day, April 4 -- opportunity for usability studies 
  • Session 1: 11 am-noon
  • Session 2: 1-2 pm
• Usability milestone:  April 7th 12:- 4 PM
  • UsabilityFollowUp: DUE: APRIL 14
• Usability individual report : Due APRIL 21.
• Last Push Plan:  DUE APRIL 14
• Code freeze: Tuesday, April 28 12-4 PM
• Celebration of Student Achievement: April 29  Time TBD
  • Schedule of demos and participants (required)
  • Slideshow of the Games1.pptx (last uploaded April 25th, 8:08 PM)
    • TCNJ RPG Slideshow
    • SCNL Slideshow
    • Slideshow+of+the+Games_RICE.pptx
• Celebration of the Arts Showcase: see above
• Final Exam time: see above 

 

Code in need of review, testing, fixing, etc.

Engine Code Review

rice Code Review

 

Agenda

• Current
  • February 24th, 2009
• Past Assignments
  • Domain of Objects

 

Games II Projects

• Super Character's Name Land
• TCNJ RPG
• rice
• Game Engine

 

Project Liaisons 

 

Communications Tools for Small Group Meetings

 

 

 

*See the sidebar for additional links and information.

 

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Villanova Resources, Connections and Status

• Villanova Home Page (on this wiki)
• Dr. Tom Way's homepage
  • CSC 5930 website
  • Villanova teams
  • Villanova Team Assets
  • Development Questions

 

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Games I (Fall 2008) Game Proposals

• Corsaire *no longer in development
• Super Character's Name Land 
• TCNJ RPG
• The Tree *no longer in development, superceded by rice (see above)

 

Acknowledgement

 

The Spring, 2009 iteration of this class was developed and delivered with support from a National Science Foundation's cPATH grant, Distristributed Expertise in Computing With Connections to the Arts, Award # 0829616