COMP4300 - Game Programming - Lecture 14 - Course Project Information

00:00 - Preroll
00:57 - Greetings
02:09 - Project Overview
02:51 - Group Size
06:15 - Due Dates and Grading
09:40 - Project GitHub Template
16:52 - Late Submissions + Project Importance
22:39 - Project Proposal
24:03 - Project Demo
25:34 - Required Game Features
26:04 - Game Overview
31:24 - Game Scenes
32:54 - Gameplay Mechanics
44:47 - Bonus Marks
45:10 - Level Editor
48:18 - Game Assets
51:06 - YouTube Game Trailer
53:07 - Project Report Video
55:57 - Game Ideas
55:41 - Group Division of Work
59:33 - Group Work Rant / Motivation
1:15:20 - Tell Me Early about Problems
1:15:52 - No Networking or Multithreading
1:16:10 - Wrapping it Up

Memorial University - Computer Science 4300 - Fall 2022
Intro to Game Programming

This is a course for students interested in learning the fundamentals of game programming and game engine architecture. Topics include an introduction to: vector math for games, rendering, animation, and artificial intelligence, collision detection, game physics, and user-interfaces. Students will be writing fully functional games using an ECS (Entities, Components, Systems) architecture, using the C++ programming language and the SFML graphics library.

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[ahmedshah]

The Advice of working with groups, the tips for better programming, and some other tips for working and doing our project are just amazing. I really appreciate and love your work Sir Dave. Your videos, your knowledge, your way of teaching is just something that I really watched with more interest. Thanks for the free videos on YouTube.

[don.geo.thayyil]

I agree 200 times to what Dave said, it's crazy to read other people's code. Last week I was debugging a piece of code and I absolutely lost it because it was hard to read. When I checked, I committed that code 8 months ago. I got humbled. If your own code is hard to read, then think about a mix of other people's code. According to me, I would hire a software engineer who can read code and understand it, rather than the guy who can write optimized, super neat code. Because you can always copy other people's code if u understand what it is ;)

[coreya]

Man. This seems like something I would love to do man. I’m going in my final year for an accounting degree and I’m not completely sold on it. I’ve played video games since I could walk. This sounds like something I would want to do for hours on end. For fun! Accounting pays well but honestly, it can be a big headache and very boring. Making a video game and working with a whole company/team to achieve a common goal which is to please the gamer in how the game is played seems like such a payoff. Wish I could get both of my degrees but they are so different from each other.