Game design &amp; programming concentration within the computer science curriculum

Coleman, Ron; Krembs, Mary; Labouseur, Alan G.; Weir, Jim

doi:10.1145/1047124.1047514

Cited by 23 publications

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“…Games development classes. These are entire curricula (e.g., [6]), individual classes (e.g., [18,16]), or capstone projects (e.g., [14,19]) designed specifically to develop new games as an end product. When evaluated against the curriculum framework proposed by the IDGA education committee [13], we see that these classes cover all the major core topic areas.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experiencing aspects of games programming in an introductory computer graphics class

Sung

Shirley

Rosenberg

2007

Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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Our computer graphics (CG) programming class uses games development as a means to help students understand CG concepts. Many students mistakenly thought this CG class was a games programming class. We present a simple framework for discussing games programming classes. Based on the framework, the paper describes our efforts in integrating competencies associated with games programming into our CG programming class. Our results show that the resulting class maintains the integrity of the original CG class while allowing students to develop projects with more interesting games features.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experiencing aspects of games programming in an introductory computer graphics class

Sung

Shirley

Rosenberg

2007

Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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“…Coleman et.al [2] described the initiatives they took to develop & design a game for improving their skills. Symborski et.al [3] & Martey et.al.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Design and Implementation of Shologuti: A Rural Game of Bangladesh

Nawshin¹,

Saifuzzaman²,

Mamun³

et al. 2017

IJCA

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Now a days, so much attention and concentration has been directed to the use of games for learning, entertaining and many more purposes because of their ability to attract player attention and hold it for lengthy periods of time as players learn to master game complexities and accomplish targets. This paper describes the initiatives to develop a game to make a small contribution to our own culture by saving an almost extinct rural game & create its virtual form, so that younger generation of our country may know about our own culture and games.

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“…During these early times there were very few computer gaming related classes. Most of the efforts in incorporating gaming into computer science classes/curricula had begun only recently (e.g., [Coleman et al 2005;Parberry et al 2005;Maxim 2006;DXFramework 2006;MUPPET 2006;Parberry 2006]). In addition, many of these efforts represented strategies to increase interest and enthusiasm for the discipline to counter the drastic downturn in enrollments [Vegso 2005].…”

Section: Impact On Computer Gaming Coursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These are classes that study how to design new games as an end product (e.g., [Jones 2000;Coleman et al 2005;Parberry et al 2005]). Students in these classes must be concerned with all aspects of a real game production including entertainment value, visual quality, audio effects, etc.…”

Section: Impact On Computer Gaming Coursesmentioning

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Rethinking graphics and gaming courses because of fast ray tracing

Shirley¹,

Sung

Brunvand³

et al. 2007

ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Educators Program

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Figure 1: Ray tracing can robustly and naturally support next generation visual effects not easily combined with GPU graphics including depth-of-field, motion blur, glossy and specular reflection, soft shadows, and correct refraction. More details on the system that generated of these images are available in Boulos et al. (2006). AbstractAlmost all current games are implemented using the graphics processing units (GPUs) found on almost every PC. These GPUs use the z-buffer algorithm to do visibility calculations. Ray tracing, an alternative to the z-buffer algorithm, delivers higher visual quality than the z-buffer algorithm but has historically been too slow for interactive use. However, ray tracing has benefitted from improvements in computer hardware, and many believe it will replace the z-buffer algorithm as the visibility engine in games. If that replacement happens, it will imply fundamental changes in both the API to and capabilities of 3D graphics engines. This paper discusses the implications for games and graphics oriented classes should this switch to ray tracing occur.

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Game design & programming concentration within the computer science curriculum

Cited by 23 publications

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Experiencing aspects of games programming in an introductory computer graphics class

Experiencing aspects of games programming in an introductory computer graphics class

Design and Implementation of Shologuti: A Rural Game of Bangladesh

Rethinking graphics and gaming courses because of fast ray tracing

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