Game Development Middleware (Winter 2018/19)

This page contains materials for the Game Development Middleware (NSWI160) course that is/has been taught during winter term of 2018/2019 at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. The course is/was backed up by Jakub Gemrot (gemrot@gamedev.cuni.cz).

Permalink: http://bit.ly/mff-uk-gdmw-2018

Dates

Mondays 9:00, SW1

How to pass the practice

Create 3 games!

Each game has “baseline” requirements and “advanced” requirements. You must pick one game and implement both baseline and advanced requirements. The rest of games must meet baseline only (at least 😉

• Unity (pick one)
  • Game 01 – BreakOut 3D Clone – PC, Web
  • Game 02 – Tower Defense – PC, Android
• Unreal Engine 4
  • Game 03 – Endless Racer –  PC
• Phaser
  • Game 04 – Classic Shooter –  Web

Labs

Slides are containing additional links 😉

Lab 13 – 7.1.2019

• Showcasing Phaser 3 Labs
  • Crossroad with descriptions of some (crucial) Phaser 3 Examples
• You can easily transfer an example from the labs into the following Stackblitz Wrapper
  • Just fork it and read info within the description of the StackBlitz project (upper-left corner of the window)
• We will be working on local competitive multiplayer Jump&Bump game
  • Jump & Bump stub on StackBlitz
  • We will be using GitHub for merging the work using following JumpBump project
    • Note that you have to switch to 2018-Phaser3-JumpBump branch!
    • Platformer art hosted at GitHub
      • Copied from Simplified Platformer by Kenney (CC 1.0)
  • Feature Spreadsheet
    • Book your feature!

Lab 12 – 17.12.2018

• Phaser time!
  • Phaser on Windows setup instructions
• We have been extending the Shooter example on StackBlitz
  • We have made an advanced version of Shooter example on StackBlitz
    • Play the game!
    • It’s not that broken, extreme development, 8 developers were hacking this during 1.5h lab
• Shooter art hosted at GitHub
  • Copied from OpenGameArt.com Space Shooter Redux by Kenney (Public Domain)
• TypeScript quick link
  • Basic Types

Lab 11 – 10.12.2018

• Radek Píbil (Grip Digital) will held workshops on Unreal Engine 4 and C++ Coding
• Slides Lab 11
  • We went through slides 11-?? roughly
  • Slides notes

Lab 10 – 3.12.2018

• Radek Píbil (Grip Digital) will held workshops on Unreal Engine 4 and C++ Coding
• Slides Lab 10
  • We went through slides 11-?? roughly
  • Slides notes

Lab 09 – 26.11.2018

• Radek Píbil (Grip Digital) will held workshops on Unreal Engine 4 and C++ Coding
• Slides Lab 09
  • We went through slides 1-10 roughly
  • Slides notes

Lab 08 – 19.11.2018

• Cancelled, I’m flying back from Canada, I suggest you to work on the game prototypes in the spare time!

• Introductory session