COSC 442: Mobile Educational Game Development

Administration

Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:00-2:00pm and Thursdays 3:30pm-4:30pm

Download course outline and review it carefully. It covers course objectives, grading, and various course and university policies.

Important Dates See http://okanagan.students.ubc.ca/calendar/


Tentative Schedule

Week Date "Online Textbook" Deadlines
Topics Readings/Additional Info
1 09/07
  • Course Overview (slides)
  • A1 Overview
  • Educational Software (slides)
  • N/A
    2 09/12-14
  • Bloom's taxonomy (slides)
  • Gagne's 9 events of instruction (slides and notes)
  • (Churches 2009, focus on pages 4-9) and (Honeycutt 2013)
  • (Copp et al. 2013)
  • 3 09/19-21
  • Tentative date 09/19: Quiz 1
  • A2 Overview and Planning (slides)
  • Storytelling (slides) and goals (slides)
  • A1 due 09/21

    A1 feedback

    4 09/26-28
  • Character design (slides)
  • Design activity (slides)
  • 5 10/03-05
  • Invited Speaker 10/03: Lori Walter on Copyrights (slides, flowchart, permission)
  • Peer design critique (instructions and form)
  • TA Office Hours Thursday Oct 05, 3:30-5:30pm in ART 106
  • 6 10/10-12
  • Game metrics (slides)
  • Case study: The Source (slides)
  • Expectations for A2 presentations and Peer evals
  • Midpoint evaluation (form) closes Monday 10/16 noon
  • Tentative date 10/12: Quiz 2
  • (Drachen et al. 2013)
  • TA Office Hours Thursday Oct 12, 3:30-5:00pm in ART 106
  • 7 10/17-19
  • A2 presentations online peer-eval form (link)
  • Tuesday: Nick, Ileri/Hayun, Ravan, James/Dana, Alex/Kayla/Julien, Dustin, Peter, Brandon/Lam/Russell
  • Thursday: David, George/Zack/Sam, Anthony/Tunde, Ross/Max, Eric, Matt/Cooper, Karn, Nadine/Aditya, Colin/Cody
  • A2 due 10/19 10/24
    8 10/24-26
  • A3 Overview
  • Heuristic evaluation (slides and new heuristics)
  • Invited Speaker 10/26: Hyper Hippo on the Game Development Industry (slides)
  • TA Office Hours Thursday Oct 26, 3:30-5:30pm in ART 106
  • 9 10/31-11/02
  • AI in games (Finite State Machines) (slides)
  • Nov 09: Class cancelled, due to illness
  • TA Office Hours Thursday Nov 02, 3:30-5:30pm in ART 106
  • 10 11/07-09
  • Peer data collection: Tuesday's schedule
  • Peer data collection: Thursday's schedule
  • TA Office Hours Thursday Nov 09, 3:30-5:30pm in ART 106
  • A3 due 11/09 11/14
    11 11/14-16
  • Search Trees and Adaptive Games (slides)
  • A4 Overview and expectations for presentations/peer evals
  • Case Study: CodeSpells (slides)
  • 12 11/21-23
  • Tentative date 11/21: Quiz 3
  • Invited Speaker 11/23: Jeremy Jones on Going Independent Cancelled :_(
  • 13 11/28-30
  • A4 presentations online peer-eval form (link)
  • Tuesday: David, George/Zack/Sam, Anthony/Tunde, Ross/Max, Eric, Matt/Cooper, Karn, Nadine/Aditya, Colin/Cody
  • Thursday: Nick, Ileri/Hayun, Ravan, James/Dana, Alex/Kayla/Julien, Dustin, Peter, Brandon/Lam/Russell
  • TA Office Hours Thursday Nov 30, 3:30-5:30pm in ART 106
  • A4 due 12/01