CP5410 - Advanced Game Design

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
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Develops a working understanding of game aesthetic design, including designing, creating and analysing the visual components, the sound and the interactive story line in computer games.

Learning Outcomes

• be able to demonstrate a working understanding of the role of the audio experience within games, including evaluation of music, electronic generation, studio recording and 3D sound processing;
• be able to demonstrate a working understanding of interactive storytelling in games, including narrative theory, character development, plot, dialogue, backstory and world creation;
• be able to demonstrate a working understanding of visual aesthetics in game design,including 2D and 3D graphics, and be able explain visual impact in games with reference to the visual arts and crafts;
• be able to demonstrate integration of audio and visual design in practical work at a postgraduate level and to provide additional analysis of the approach used in narrative in the final postgraduate level assignment.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to speak and write logically, clearly and creatively;
• The ability to use and interpret different media;
• The ability to use a variety of media and methods to retrieve, analyse, evaluate, organise and present information.

Prerequisites:	CP5430Must be in a postgraduate program
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	CP3410

Availabilities
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Census Date 24-Mar-2006
Coord/Lect:	jc153934.
Contact hours:	26 hours 26 hours 13 hours 26 hours - Self directed lab based investigation
Assessment:	(32%); (24%); (24%); (20%).

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