| Course Code |
CSC378 |
| Course Title |
Game Design and Development |
| Credit Hours |
3 |
| Prerequisites by Course(s) and Topics |
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| Assessment Instruments with Weights (homework, quizzes, midterms, final, programming assignments, lab work, etc.) |
SESSIONAL (Quizzes, Assignments, Presentations) =25 %
Midterm Exam =25 %
Final Exam = 50%
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| Course Coordinator |
Waseem Akram |
| URL (if any) |
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| Current Catalog Description |
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| Textbook (or Laboratory Manual for Laboratory Courses) |
Introduction to Game Development Edited by Steve Rabin |
| Reference Material |
https://www.programiz.com/csharp-programming https://www.tutorialspoint.com/csharp/index.htm https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials |
| Course Goals |
This course introduces the basic concepts and development of games professionally. The course emphasizes on C# language which is used in Unity tool to develop games 2D/3D. The students work on Buildbox as well as unity tool. The students learn different techniques develop and design games. |
| Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs): |
| At the end of the course the students will be able to: | Domain | BT Level* |
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| * BT= Bloom’s Taxonomy, C=Cognitive domain, P=Psychomotor domain, A= Affective domain |
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| Topics Covered in the Course, with Number of Lectures on Each Topic (assume 15-week instruction and one-hour lectures) |
| Week | Lecture | Topics Covered |
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| Week 1 |
1 |
Course Introduction |
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2 |
Applications of the course Institute/Work ethics |
| Week 2 |
3 |
Job market overview |
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4 |
How and where to download |
| Week 3 |
5 |
Version understanding |
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6 |
Register license |
| Week 4 |
7 |
Understanding the pro and free version of Unity |
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8 |
How to add modules after the installation |
| Week 5 |
9 |
Understanding unity |
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10 |
Understand the layout |
| Week 6 |
11 |
Understanding tabs, Understanding windows, Understanding the unity Layout and Creating a new project |
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12 |
How to Make a Game Like Jetpack Joyride in Unity 2D – Part 1 |
| Week 7 |
13 |
How to Make a Game Like Jetpack Joyride in Unity 2D – Part 2 |
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14 |
How to Make a Game Like Jetpack Joyride in Unity 2D – Part 3 |
| Week 8 |
1 hours |
Mid Term |
| Week 9 |
15 |
Scene Setup for 2D Games using unity tools |
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16 |
How to deploy a Player and Setup on a scene |
| Week 10 |
17 |
Applying animations for a player to give behavior |
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18 |
Setup of Particles in game environment |
| Week 11 |
19 |
Deploy the coins and collectables in 2D environment |
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20 |
Overview of Build-in settings |
| Week 12 |
21 |
Creating background, Looping background, Creating the main menu |
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22 |
Buttons Scene management |
| Week 13 |
23 |
Game over UI Restart UI |
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24 |
Learning about Score management and appkying the techniques to deploye coins and show the score on layout |
| Week 14 |
25 |
Creating environments for game from scratch using Tile palettes |
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26 |
Tiles, Rigidbodies, Physics Colliders, and its types |
| Week 15 |
27 |
Adding 3D items to Hierarchy Window, Arranging them in a scene view, View them in-game view |
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28 |
Change the direction on Input, Learn raycast to Know the ground |
| Week 16 |
29 |
Creating 3D environment using Terrain |
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30 |
Making the player controller |
| Week 17 |
2 hours |
Final Term |
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| Laboratory Projects/Experiments Done in the Course |
Final project of LAB: RocketMouse, Dungeon Escape and a 3D Game are completed at the end of the course. Assigned 2D project as assignment and one Term Project at end of the semester for course evaluation. |
| Programming Assignments Done in the Course |
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