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Basics of Game Development - TTOW0211

Lecturer: Jani Immonen
Contact: firstname.lastname@jamk.fi
Course scope: 5ects = 135h
Study method: 100% distance learning
Materials (c) Paavo Nelimarkka

Please do not contact or share GitLab with Paavo Nelimarkka! He has designed the course but is not actively participating this semester. LEAVE PAAVO ALONE :)

Check if you have enrolled to both the courses (through Peppi system) if you're attending both!

How to get started?

Deadlines

Date	What happens
21.1	Gitlab project repository, synopsis & post-mortem
28.1.	Quiz 1, Quiz 2
4.2.	Conference report, paper prototype
25.2.	GDD, the pitch video & Unity3D Roll-a-ball tutorial, course feedback
11.3.	Game Development Project course starts!

Web courses

Go through these courses and find the quizes from the Moodle. You can access them by pressing Audit Only.

Introduction to Game Design (California Institute of the Arts)
- Audit only, don't do assignments
Principles of Game Design (Michigan State University)
- Audit only, don't do assignments

Assignments

After you've gone through the web courses start making these assignments in your course repository.

Learn the basics of Gitlab and fork the course template
Return a link to your project repository to Moodle return folder
Synopsis
Post-mortem analysis
Conference report
Paper Prototype (presented on video)
GDD (emphasis on this assignment!)
Game idea pitch video (max 5min)
Unity3D basics, Roll-a-ball
- Upload the webgl build on student S-folder for example!
- Optional: Unreal Engine 5 tutorial
- Optional: Unreal Engine 4 tutorial for beginners
- Optional: Godot tutorial
- Optional: PhaserJS Basics
- If you have studied Peliohjelmointi TTOS0700, you can ignore this
- If you have done any game project, please provide a link and ignore this

See the deadline is the course timetable above.

Optional material

Here are some optional learning material for those who really are interested in game development! Coursera courses are free to audit. Udemy courses do cost, but they are on (big) sale every other week.