Term 3: Monday, Thursday, 12:30-13:20 in PC/155, Tuesday 13:30-14:20 in PC/155
Note: some lectures will be held jointly with Sfwr Eng 4G06, as the core 'project management' aspects of both project courses are the same. Project specific classes will be held in the same time slots, but in a different classroom (TBD).
Dr. J. Carette, ITB-168 , ext 26869, email: carette at mcmaster dot ca.
Office hours: by appointment (or catch me after class).
Assignments will be handed in via a departemental svn account, one of which will be set up for every student.
Daniel Szymczak
The calendar description says: Student teams prepare the requirements, design, documentation and implementation of a computer game taking economic, health, safety, cultural, legal and marketing factors into account. Students must demonstrate a working system and convincing test results. Software project management.
The project will be broken into pieces (requirements, design, prototype and final implementation), each of which will be graded separately, and may also themselves be sub-divided.
This year, sustainability aspects will also be added. [Not how to make games sustainable per se, but how gaming-related technology can help implement sustainability]
The latest version of this outline and the most "up-to date" information as well as hand-outs can be found on the course web page. http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~carette/SE4GP6/2012_13/index.html. (Or go to my home page and then to the course page). The assignments (parts of the project) can be found there as well.
Every group will be assigned a subversion repository (shared with the TAs and the professor) for all of their work.
As is to be expected, the main project for this course consists in making a full-fledged game. This year, we will be using the Unity Engine for game development. More details later.
The deliverable schedule:
| Deliverable | % of grade | Date Due |
|---|---|---|
| High-concept document | 5 % | September 28 |
| Draft system requirements | 7.5% | October 26 |
| Art (visuals and sound) | 5 % | November 23 |
| Requirements for each system component | 7.5 % | December 19 |
| Design for each system component | 5 % | January 11 |
| Implementation Rev 0 | 5 % | January 25 |
| V & V on Rev 0 | 5 % | February 8 |
| Final version (Rev 1) | ||
| - Concept and all Requirements | 10 % | February 22 |
| - Art and Design | 10% | March 8 |
| - Implementation | 10 % | March 22 |
| - V & V | 10 % | April 5 |
| - DEMO | 20 % | April 21 (very tentative) |
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