SE 320

Lecture 1: Introduction

Instructor

• Gazihan Alankuş• METU, BS 2002, MS 2005• WUSTL, PhD 2011 (Working on it)• Some industry experience• I do research on games• Now I get to teach games• reasonable > idealistic

You

• Introduce in detail, from where, etc.• You and games• Registered? Why?• What do you expect– from this class?– to see happen by the end of semester?

• Programmer?– Java? Eclipse? IDEs? Debugging? Open source? 116?

• Artist?– Graphic designer? Sound maker?

We’ll Create Games

• This is the most important thing here!

Why Games?

• Glad you asked!– http://www.vizworld.com/2010/01/infographic-vi

deo-game-statistics/– http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/

2011/06/infographic-video-game-industry-statistics/239665/

– http://www.vincentabry.com/en/us-uk-video-game-industry-infographic-918

– http://www.uproxx.com/gaming/2011/06/infographic-of-the-day-videogames-pwning-hollywood-in-release-week-sales/

– http://www.1001oyun.com/infographic/video-game-addiction

We’ll Create Games

• This is the most important thing here!– I don’t want to make this difficult for you• Java and Eclipse!• Slick2D

Syllabus

• http://ects.ieu.edu.tr/syllabus.php?section=ce.cs.ieu.edu.tr&course_code=SE%20320&cer=0

What We’ll Do

• Learn about games and how to design and develop them

• Develop games in groups

What We’ll Do

• Learn about games and how to design and develop them

• Develop games in groups

Learn

• Lectures and online material• The book (read the assigned chapters)

What We’ll Do

• Learn about games and how to design and develop them

• Develop games in groups

Groups

• Everyone pitches a game idea• We select best ideas, form groups around

ideas• You can ditch the idea you’ve pitched for

another group even though it was chosen!

Groups

• No free lunch, everybody have to contribute • Grading will be on contribution • I will collect reports on who did what

Suggested Development Environment

• Any OS• Java and Eclipse (you’ll thank me later)• Slick2D game library– Easy to use– Has many extensions

• Tiled map editor!• Particle effects• Actually used

– 2D Games• I will support you with issues

Alternative Development Environments

• Panda 3D (Python)• Microsoft XNA (C#)• Unity 3D (C#)• Gideros (Turkish! Lua)• jMonkeyEngine (also Java)• No NIHS!

Life is Short, Use Libs

• I could teach you DirectX or OpenGL. – You wouldn’t have time to create a game.