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Welcome To Computer Game Development
Seminar SS 2005
Marcus Magnor Art Tevs
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New Concept

• You will develop your own game as a team
• No paper presentation, report writing etc., BUT
• a lot of programming !!!
• gt Stress, fatigue, panic,
• (just as in real game development)
• Your reward
• Your own game a lot of experience in
• graphics, AI, animation, team work,

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Organizational Things

• Seminar meetings
• Mondays 14-16, beginning at 14 s.t. (sharp)
• Room MPI 019
• 9/8 LP
• Language English
• http//www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/units/nwg3/ss05/cgd/index
  .html
• Supervisor
• Marcus Magnor
• Room MPI 429, Tel. [phone], magnor_at_mpii.de
• Tutor
• Art Tevs
• Arti_tevs_at_yahoo.de

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Organizational Things

• Prerequisites
• Computer Graphics I
• C/C programming skills
• Grading
• Final result
• Your team members opinion about your commitment

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Organizational Things

• You must officially register for this course
  within the next 3 weeks to get credit points
• You may cancel course until May 9
• If you are still registered after May 9, you
  have to
• (attend the lectures)
• If not, you
• Fail the course if no results
• Have wasted one of 3 official attempts
• Paragraph 10.1 der Prüfungsordnung für Bachelor-
  und Masterstudiengänge

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• Development platform
• Your decision
• Result must be presentable in Visualization Room
• Graphics hardware preferentially GeForceFX
• Accounts
• University student pools
• MPII, if you want

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Game Development

• A game consists of 3 components
• Story
• Arts
• Software
• Tasks
• Programmers (graphics, AI, )
• Artists (geometry models, textures, environments,
  sound effects, )
• Coordinator
• Different game genres
• Game engine
• Developed, maintained, provided by Art Tevs

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Web Resources

• Game development
• www.gamedev.net
• www.gamasutra.com
• www.flipcode.com
• gpwiki.org
• Libraries
• www.boost.org
• www.openal.org
• www.fmod.org
• ode.org
• Models, textures, sounds,
• www.3dtotal.com
• www.3dvalley.com
• www.3dcafe.com
• ai-depot.com

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Web Resources II

• More things
• Developer.nvidia.com
• Nehe.gamedev.net
• Game developers
• Gamearchitect.net
• www.humus.ca
• www.frustrum.org

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Assignment

• Until next Monday, April 25
• Organize as a team
• Who is doing what ? Responsibilities ? Expertise
  ?
• Decide on game idea
• Write up story board
• Identify needed components
• Set up time line
• Roll-out date week of July 4, 2005
• Get acquainted with game engine
• Presentation by coordinator