Coursework

2 - Set exercises - 45

1 - Report - 55

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<ul><li>Overview of game history and genres.  </li><li>Game design issues including real-time and NPC behaviours.  </li><li>Game components, including: 2D graphics programming in C&#43;&#43;. </li><li>Game engine architecture, including sound, physics and networked gaming. </li></ul>

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

Self-directed - 

In-Person - 

Game Engine Architecture

Game Coding Complete

Further reading will be provided in class and on-line in the website for this module on Moodle (moodle.city.ac.uk). 

Games Technology

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IN2026 - Games Technology

IN2026-PRD2-PER-ALV1

The key aspects of the module are introduced in lectures and further explored in practical sessions. Materials for each session will be provided via the Moodle learning environment. You are expected to continue to study in your own time by completing exercises, checking your efforts against solutions that are released subsequently and reading literature that is introduced in class and online.

Define and animate 2-D graphic objects under program control. 

Skills

Explain specialist issues concerned with real-time games design 

Knowledge

Design, create and animate a simple 2-D game world. 

Develop a professional approach to management of a programming project. 

Values and attitudes

Explain the principles of simple game design, including their historical context 

Explain the components of a core game engine. 

Define and implement simple game audio, non-player character behaviours, and simple game user interfaces. 