Class Sessions

Our fourth deliverable is the alpha release. This is essentially your mid-term, featuring a playable version of your game. See the instructions for the presentation sechedule.    More ›

Today’s class is a critique session to look at some of your initial level design ideas. You should be prepared with several building blocks before you come to class.    More ›

This session is intended to give you some practice with level design (though you may also spend the time revising documents). You should take the concepts you learned this week and apply them to a game. We will have a critique session on what you came up with in the next class.    More ›

Procedural content is always something that people strive for, because it can make your game infinitely replayable. But as we show in this lecture, this is harder - not easier - than traditional level design.    More ›

After several programming lessons, it is time to return to design. With alpha release around the corner, we need to talk about how we do proper level design.    More ›