29 courses with the subject GMAP, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
This course will cover an overview of fundamental image creation and editing tools, like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, in the framework of creative experimentation with analog game design exercises using a combination of digital and physical fabrication skills.
This course will cover an overview of the fundamental design skills of digital games using a variety of game engines, including interactive text, 2d and 3d game engines, and grey-boxing with primitive shapes in-engine and modeling tools, exploiting the systems and existing asset libraries available for rapid experimentation.
This course introduces various topics under the labels of user research (UR), user experience (UX), usability testing, and quality assurance (QA) software testing, and related fields, as they apply to game development. Students will become familiar with general approaches and techniques through in-class lectures and participation in practical testing of active game projects by student teams in other courses.
This course focuses on the basics of portfolio creation, editing, and presentation while examining portfolio examples of current professionals in a variety of game development roles that can serve as models for student portfolio development.
This course covers the design, prototyping, and evaluation of graphical user interfaces for digital games by exploring topics such as human capabilities, input technologies, heuristic evaluation, and design methods, principles and rules. Students will learn how to design aesthetically pleasing and effective game user interfaces, covering important design principles (learnability, visibility, error prevention, efficiency, and visual design) and the human capabilities that motivate them (including perception, motor skills, color vision, attention, and human error).
This course introduces students to the process of designing and creating concept art for games as part of the overall development pipeline. Using a variety of techniques including sketching, photo and kit-bashing, and overpainting, students will learn to ideate and communicate concepts and prepare materials for subsequent stages of asset production.
This course explores modern game engine scripting languages that are event-driven, control the art assets, provide multiplayer communication, and database access.
This course focuses on building skills for the career-long practice of producing and maintaining a professional creative portfolio while allowing the students the opportunity to create or refine additional student-driven portfolio work that synthesizes their skills and experience from direct class assignments in their other coursework.
This course presents an overview of computer gaming, including its history, its foundation in traditional games and its contemporary forms. The relationship among genres, platforms and audiences are examined and critical evaluation skills are developed.
This course explores the history of video games from their analog roots and examines the video game industry from the earliest arcade entertainments to modern digital distribution networks. It will investigate the people who made technical, design, and business decisions that have had lasting, industry-wide effects that are still with us today.
In this course students will play the role of a game user researcher (GUR) and learn how to conduct more advanced and rigorous playtests and how to run professional-quality studies that support a better understanding of player behavior and identify usability issues. Students will develop and run a study using an existing game project.
In this course, students who are active members of a team in Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio, produce a professional-level, team-based, interactive project in a real-world production environment. It requires a project that demonstrates the integration of the student's academic and practical knowledge of the field as well as one or more specializations. Students refine their understanding of execution, delivery, and presentation of quality digital media production through implementation of professional best practices, and perfect their written, oral, and visual presentation skills through the power of collaboration, teamwork, and shared missions.
This course explores development of games for education. Goals include understanding and appreciating the psychology of play and the principles of game design in developing educational games.
This course explores new ideas and innovative gameplay through constraints of team size and shortened development cycles.
This course introduces students to the computer game design process. Students also learn how the individual skills of modeling, animation, scripting, interface design and storytelling are coordinated to produce interactive media experiences.
This course is an introduction to game design from a player's perspective. Students will experience a variety of games and analyze them with respect to the use of game design principles and their consequences for game play.
This course is an interdisciplinary look at the overlap between architecture and game-level design. Students will engage with the construction of interactive spaces in both the physical and game worlds using form, space, and color to design virtual environments to guide players, tell stories, facilitate actions, and evoke emotions. The course will reinforce important architectural design concepts in the realm of game-level design and introduce new analysis techniques for wayfinding and visibility. Game design tools will also be introduced to architecture students or reinforced to game design students. The course assignments will be individual, and the final project will be group-based which expects students to synthesize their understanding of architectural and level design concepts and skills.
This course focuses on character animation techniques for real-time graphics, including cyclical animations, procedural animation, motion capture and integration into game engines.
This course teaches the use and integration of state machines into game engines, as well as other methods for creating and controlling Non Player Characters (NPCs).
This course explores development of games for mobile platforms. Specifically addressed will be platform issues such as processor speed, screen resolution, user interface and memory.
This course examines the roles of the executive producer and the development team in taking a computer game from concept to design document through production. Students will work in small teams to research andplan a production effort that results in a pre-production prototype.
This course provides an environment in which the pre-production of GMAP 377 Game Development: Workshop I can be taken through a full production effort. Students work in small teams to bring a selected prototype to completion.
This course will step through the various modules of game engines, enabling students to gain access to real-time shaders and materials, particle systems and animation techniques.
This course is an advanced introduction into the use of industry standard middleware tools and game engine for designing game audio.
This course explores the history of video games from their analog roots and examines the video game industry from the earliest arcade entertainments to modern digital distribution networks. It will investigate the people who made technical, design, and business decisions that have had lasting, industry-wide effects that are still with us today.
This course introduces students to the computer game design process. Students also learn how the individual skills of modeling, animation, scripting, interface design and storytelling are coordinated to produce digital game experiences for various purposes including entertainment as well as applications in research and development.
This course explores the field of serious games. Students will learn about serious games both through extensive readings on different areas of serious games and through the design and development of serious games projects.
This course explores new ideas and innovative gameplay through constraints of team size and shortened development cycles. The students will work in small groups to rapidly prototype and develop novel games projects.
This course is an introduction to game design from a player's perspective. Students will experience a variety of games and analyze them with respect to the use of game design principles and their consequences for game play.
Source: Drexel University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
