Lecture & session notes
Slides from lectures and materials from hands-on studio sessions are posted
here for reference after class.
- March 30: Introduction
- April 1: Interactive Fiction
Here is the source and executable
for Twonky
Island as presented in class. We highly recommend using inform-mode.el with gnuemacs, for civilized
automatic indentation and syntax highlighting – it can save you a lot of
time in catching silly bugs.
- April 6:
Writing fiction in Inform.
- April 13-15: Gameplay Workshop
(Marc LeBlanc)
- April 20: Future of
interactive fiction
- April 22: Introduction to game
AI
- April 27: Flexbots
- April 29: Terrain analysis
- May 4: Introduction to
world-building and scripting in Dungeon Siege
- May 6: World-building hands-on
- May 11: Dungeon Siege NPCs
- May 13: Analysis of strategy
games
- May 18-20: Progress
presentations
- May 25: Analysis of The Sims
- May 27:
Analysis of simulation games
- June 1: Impacts of computer
gaming
- June 3:
Wrap-up
Last edited 6/7/04 by KDF
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