CP5410 - Advanced Game Design
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | Discipline of Information Technology (pre 2009) |
Available to Computer Science postgraduate students only.
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: | CP5430 |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | CP3410 |
Availabilities | |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 27-Mar-2009 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Mr Lars Kalland. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (32%); presentations (24%); assignments (24%); workshops (20%). |
Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.