Tentative Schedule

Last Updated: Sept. 29, 2010 10:00pm

CLASS	DATE	LECTURE	GIVEN BY	INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT THAT IS DUE	PROJECT MILESTONE THAT IS DUE
1	8 Sept	Administrivia and Groups, Five Spoons (part I)	Bernie
2	15 Sept	Five Spoons (part II), Groups final, Intro GD (part I)	Bernie
3	22 Sept	Creativity exercises	Tim Stellmach	Understanding Comics, McCloud Ch. 1-5 (Reading)
4	29 Sept	Intro GD (part II), Formal abstract design tools	Bernie	Doug Church FADT Article (Reading)
5	6 Oct	Teams pitch their game concepts, Breach pitch, Team meetings this week	Bernie, Current students	FADT paper due; MDA white paper (Reading)	Milestone #1: Concept Doc / Pitch
6	13 Oct	MDA framework	Bernie	Milestone #2: Peer Review I	Milestone #3: Gameplay reports
7	20 Oct	Lost Cities exercise (part I), Post mortem (PM) of former student projects	Bernie, Former students	MDA paper 1 due; MDA paper 2 due
8	27 Oct	Project demo			Milestone #4: Design Overview
9	3 Nov	Lost Cities exercise (part II)	Bernie
10	10 Nov	Turn video games into pen and paper			Pen and Paper prototype due
11	17 Nov	Demo pen and paper prototypes; Game tuning exercise: Three Musketeers (part I)	Bernie	Milestone #5: Peer Review II
12	24 Nov	Three Musketeers (part II)	Bernie		Milestone #6: Technical Design Doc
13	1 Dec	Project Demo II	Bernie	Design paper	Milestone #7: Draft Design Document
14	8 Dec	Writing Design Docs			Milestone #8: Peer feedback
15	17 Dec	Final presentation	Bernie		Milestones #9, 10, 11: Final GDD, Game, 360, PM