Lamar University
College of Arts and Science
Computer Science
Game Programming
Fall 2016
Phone: (409) 880-1836
E-mail: Use the Blackboard Mail tool for communication
Alternate E-mail: johnny.jarrell@lamar.edu
Office Location: Digital Learning Center, Room 103
Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 8-5 (by appointment), e-mail and through Blackboard Instant Messenger
CREDIT HOUR ALLOTMENT: 3 Hours
PRE-REQUISITES & CO-REQUISITES None
CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION The objective of the course is to guide the student through the game design process. This course instills within the student the knowledge and creative perspective to create a game or other interactive software on a computer. The student will develop the commands to make the worlds created do amazing tasks. The students will understand the ease of which games are created. The student will also explore popular game development software and the game design process.
Other Gamemaker has an intuitive and easy to use drag-and-drop interface allows you to create your own games very quickly. You can import and create images, sprites (animated images) and sounds and use them. You can easily define the objects in your game and indicate their behavior, and you can define appealing rooms with scrolling backgrounds in which the game takes place. And if you want full control there is actually an easy-to-use programming language built into Game Maker that gives you full control over what is happening in your game.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES See individual units
Required Text:
- None
- Online lecture notes
- Online discussions
- Project based activities
- Online videos
- Web based collaboration
- Assignments (Projects): 60%
- Discussions: 15%
- Final Project: 25%
- A (90-100)
- B (80-89)
- C (70-79)
- D (60-69)
- F (0-59)
ASSIGNMENTS
- No late assignments accepted.
- Turn in assignments with Blackboard.
DUE DATES All unit components (discussions, assignments, quizzes) are due on the same date at 11:59 PM Central US Time. 15 week class
- Unit 1 - August 28
- Unit 2 - September 11
- Unit 3 - September 25
- Unit 4 - October 9
- Unit 5 - October 23
- Unit 6 - November 6
- Unit 7 - November 20
- Unit 8 - December 4
- Unit 1 - August 28
- Unit 2 - September 8
- Unit 3 - September11
- Unit 4 - September 18
- Unit 5 - September 25
- Unit 6 - October 2
- Unit 7 - October 9
- Unit 8 - October 16
- Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life when writing emails or posting on the discussion board.
- Use the discussion board to ask class or assignment questions.
- I will respond to emails and discussion postings within 48 hours.
- A portable flash drive to make a backup of your projects
- High Speed (Broadband) Internet access
- Computer with at least 2 Gigabyte memory
- Word processor software (Compatible with Microsoft Word)
- Adobe Acrobat Reader (http://www.adobe.com)
- Audacity (link located on home page)
- GIMP (link located on home page)
- Jing (link located on home page)
- This course is being offered on-line via Blackboard to facilitate student access.
- The Distance Education Office will provide technical support for the course.
- There is 24 hour access for help through voice mail at the following Distance Education number (409) 880-2222. Please use these resources to assist you with any technical problems that may develop.
- Email: blackboard@lamar.edu
- http://luonline.blackboard.com
- http://my.lamar.edu
- through the STUDENTS tab, or from the Lamar website at http://www.lamar.edu
- Your username is the same as your myLamar username (see http://my.lamar.edu for details)
- Your password Click on the “Forget password?” link on the login page if this is your first time to use Blackboard. Instructions will be sent to your myLamar email address.
- Copying from another student’s paper, report, computer files, data listings, and/or programs.
- Using (during an exam), materials not authorized by the faculty giving the exam.
- Collaborating, without authorization, with another person during an examination or in preparing academic work.
- Knowingly, and without authorization, using, buying, selling, stealing, transporting, soliciting, copying, or possessing in whole or part, the contents of an unadministered test.
- Substituting for another student; permitting any other person; or otherwise assisting any other person to substitute for oneself or for another student in the taking of an examination or the preparation of academic work to be submitted for academic credit.
- Bribing another person to obtain an unadministered exam or information about an unadministered exam.
- Purchasing, or otherwise acquiring and submitting as one’s own work any research paper or other writing assignment prepared by an individual or firm. This section does not apply to the typing of the rough and/or final versions of an assignment by a professional typist.
- If you have, or think you may have, a disability (e.g., mental health, attentional, learning, chronic health, sensory, or physical), please contact the DRC at 409-880-8347 or drc@lamar.edu to arrange a confidential appointment with the Director of the DRC to explore possible options regarding equitable access and reasonable accommodations.
- If you are registered with DRC and have a current letter requesting reasonable accommodations, we encourage you to contact your instructor early in the semester to review how the accommodations will be applied in the course."
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