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Game Programming Course
I made a game programming course under the title "Practical Game Programming" in my school in the fall of 2010. It was surprisingly rough, and I completely hated my voice for the next day after the first session. After that it became somewhat easier..
The structure of the course was such that I talked all sorts of theoretical stuff for a couple of hours, and then we went to a computer lab and played around with source code (based on my graphics/game programming tutorial).
I've posted the course slides here. Bear in mind that this is kind of the 1.0, "alpha" version of the course. Additional thing to keep in mind is that the target audience was bunch of kids who had never programmed outside of school, even though some kind of programming was a prerequisite.
Course Slides (2010)
00intro.pdf
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Introduction. Who's who, what the course is about, some philosophy.
01project.pdf
234kB
What the mandatory project is really about.
02structure.pdf
384kB
High-level structure of a computer game.
03physics.pdf
166kB
What I mean by "physics" in computer games.
04optimization.pdf
173kB
Basics of optimization
05ai.pdf
410kB
What AI in games is, and what it isn't, and some techniques.
06graphics.pdf
216kB
Intro to graphics
07audio.pdf
61kB
Audio overview
08network.pdf
63kB
Networking overview
09business.pdf
61kB
Some aspects of the games business
10blending.pdf
53kB
A few common blending algorithms
11collisions.pdf
57kB
Some simple 2d collision detection algorithms
12rasterization.pdf
85kB
Turning ideal primitives into pixels
13collisionresponse.pdf
87kB
Some simple collision response algorithms
14interpolation.pdf
152kB
Getting from 0 to 1 in various ways
15assets.pdf
53kB
Some talk about asset management in the game
16accessibility.pdf
62kB
A few words about accessibility in games
17camera.pdf
51kB
Concept of a world larger than the screen
18particles.pdf
51kB
Particle system basics
19goodenough.pdf
112kB
What is good enough?
20towerdefence.pdf
58kB
Picking apart the tower defence genre
21matchthree.pdf
54kB
Picking apart the match three genre
22hiddenobject.pdf
50kB
Picking apart the hidden object genre
23breakout.pdf
62kB
Picking apart the breakout genre
24visualnovel.pdf
91kB
Picking apart the visual novel genre
25platformer.pdf
61kB
Picking apart the platformer genre
98returning_project.pdf
50kB
Some notes about how to return the project
99books.pdf
59kB
Recommended books
Comments, etc, appreciated, as always.