PROD222-19S2 (C) Semester Two 2019

Gaming Project Studio 1

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 15 July 2019
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2019
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 26 July 2019
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 27 September 2019

Description

This paper allows students to create substantial immersive experiences using techniques such as structured brainstorming, rapid prototyping (fail often, fail early), constructive critiquing, and iteration. Students will create several major works during the course of the paper, working in teams, formally presenting their ideas, and working with client constraints. Several technologies will be introduced, such as collaborative project management and tracking tools, code repositories, and presentation software.

In this course, students will design immersive experiences using techniques for game development such as structured brainstorming, sketching, rapid prototyping, constructive critiquing, testing and iteration. Students will create several works, in teams and individually, formally presenting their ideas, and working with client, user and context constraints. Technologies and processes will be introduced to support project management, progress tracking, collaborative development and presentation.

Learning Outcomes

  • Students will gain experience in applying techniques and methods for designing, prototyping and testing game ideas.
  • Students will gain experience in designing new game ideas to meet external specifications and requirements
  • Students will have experience working in a team to critique and iteratively improve game concepts through rapid prototyping, iteration and constructive critiquing
  • Students will become familiar with the use of a number of industry standard integrated game development tools and production pipelines
  • Students will be able to tailor presentations of game designs for the target audience

Course Coordinator

Simon Hoermann

Course Administrator

Alison Lowery

Lecturers are Dr Simon Hoermann and Dr Tham Piumsomboon

Assessment

Reports (individual): 25%
Art Assets (individual) 25%
Project (team): 50%

Notes

The prerequisite for this course is PROD121 and PROD101

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,701.00

International fee $8,000.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Product Design .

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