Class No.

Tasks to undertake

Topic to be discussed

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·Read

Developing Games for Windows 8

• What is expected
• Build your first Windows 8 Application
• Build your first game using a tutorial
• The Windows 8 Store App Design Solution

2

Homework:

Start your Portfolio:

· Start your design portfolio

Build a game:

· Create a Powerpoint based Storyboard for your game

· Build a simple game using a Construct2 tutorial and post it to a hosting site

· Beginner's guide to Construct 2

· http://www.scirra.com/arcade

· Modify the game using art, sounds you discovered online

Create online presence

· Create a Blog (documenting your learning experience, and application creation, ideas reasons why your doing this)

· Generate a “professional” Facebook Page for your App

· Generate a LinkedIn account (to promote your employability)

· Create a YouTube Channel (for demonstrating your game/app)

Design Processes, you are required to meet with your assigned teams and discuss the following:

· Review what you should put in a blog with respect to game design

· What is a design portfolio?

· What are the available tools to make a video

· Review simple games

Read:

· User Experience Design Fundamentals

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Before class make sure to read:

o The Windows 8 Store App Design Solution

o User Experience Design Fundamentals

o Applying User Experience Process to Windows 8 Store  Applications

Turn in:

• Links to your :
• Blog, YouTube Station, Professional Facebook and LinkedIn
• Game on Arcade

At the end of class session turn in:

· Turn in your Facebook baseline report

· Turn in your baseline Blog analytics

· Quiz

Discuss Design Principles in first three reading modules

Game Design for Slats:

· Snap

· Fill

· Full

Adding another level to your game:

Review of Treasure Map example

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· Read:
Introduction To Windows 8 Store App Design Principle: Do More with Less

Turn In

• Add a level to your the beginner game
• Create a Platformer game using the tutorial at: http://aka.ms/csudh495platformer2
• Design thoughts on your blog, Link only, about how you will use a platformer for a Holiday theme game
• Video on how to you created the beginning game
• Facebook postings

In Class:

· Turn in Documentation

· Quiz

Discussion about doing more with less, demonstration of design and implementation

Student demos of design considerations

In class lab:

· Students will gather design documentation from other students and then begin to break down the scenario implementation

· Introduction of HTML5/JavaScript code for Windows 8

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Read:

Making a great app

Turn In:

• Using the Platformer you created using the tutorial at http://aka.ms/csudh495platformer2, modify the game to a theme and upload it to the Arcade, turn in the link
• Post your design thoughts on your design issues and implementation
• Video on why people should play your game
• Facebook postings

In Class:

• At the end of class turn in scenario experiments
• Quiz

· Discuss and experiment with scenarios

· Students will demonstrate and discuss their “platformer” games

· Feedback on games

6

Read:

• Introduction to Windows 8 Store App Design Principle: Pride in Craftsmanship

Turn In:

• Add a level to your game
• Develop a marketing plan for your game
• Post upgrade to the Scirra.Com arcade
• Demonstrate how you will implement this game in Windows 8 using drawings, scenarios etc.

In Class:

• Check-in Modified lab component to Team Foundation Services

• Quiz

· Discuss Windows 8 Store App Design Principle and Pride in Craftsmanship

· Discuss Game design using HTML5/JavaScript Hello World App

· Quality software and how to create quality software

· Team Foundation Services

In Class Lab:

· Check-out lab component, modify and check-in modified component

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Read:

• Designing great games for Windows 8

Turn In:

· Modifications to assigned HTML5/JavaScript code

· Addition of Scoring and simulated Leaderboard to your Themed game

· Marketing plan for your Game

· YouTube Video about your game

In Class:

• Quiz

· Discuss what it means to be Authentically Digital

· Examine MS Project report of status of the HTML5/JavaScript Hello World App

· Discuss Agile Design

· Selected Students Demo their Holiday game

· Review of selected YouTube Videos

8

Read:

• The essential guide to testing your Windows 8 game

Turn In:

• Report on Blog Traffic and YouTube Video

In Class:

· Quiz

· Discuss what a contract is and how to implement in it your code

· Selected students will demo their Holiday game

· Discuss “Promise” and “Then”

· Discuss Scrum approach to design

9

Watch:

• Introduction to Live Tiles and Notifications

Turn In:

· Update your “Hello World” Game to incorporate the Search Charm

· Update your “Hello World” Project to Incorporate Settings Charm

· Expand use of “Promise” and “Then”

In Class:

• Code Profiling Lab Outcome

• Quiz

· Discuss Live Tiles and Notifications

· Selected students will demo their “Hello World” Use of Charms and how they implemented their code

· Code Profiling

· UML and Game Design

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Read:

• Designing for Multiple Screens and Resolutions

Turn In:

• Update to Themed Project to include Live Tiles and Notification
• Update to “Hello World” Project to demo use of dynamic CSS

In Class:

• Quiz

· Discuss Snap, Fill and Full Screens in Windows 8

· Selected Students demonstrates Promise and Then

· Designing for the Windows 8 Phone

· Selected Students demonstrate their Holiday Themed Projects

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Read:

• App Submission Process

Turn In:

• Addition of Windows 8 Snap and Fill solution for your Holiday Game
• Addition of Dynamic CSS to “Hello World” project to handle Snap, Fill and Full

In Class:

• Results from the WACK test

· Discuss the Submission Process

· Students run WACK test on their Projects

· Students are assisted in determining how to fix their WACK test failures

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Get Windows Store account for FREE via DreamSpark

Turn In:

• Design Portfolio for online evaluation by other students
• Submit game to Windows Store evaluation
• Begin Design process for a game based on seasons

In Class:

• Submit Hello World consuming the WinRT Project

· Review of design process

· WinRT and what it is

· Selected Students will demonstrate their submitting games

In Class Lab:

· Students will consume an existing C# based WinRT project in their Hello World Project

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Read:

· Introduction to C++

Turn In:

• Design Portfolio improvements from Online Evaluations
• Implement Seasonal Game Design

In Class:

• Submit simple C++ Hello World app

· Demonstration of how to create and write a C++

· Students will explore and implement a simple Module and then consume it in their “Hello World” program

14

Read:

· Creating an online leaderboards 

Turn In:

• Addition of WinRT to your Seasonal Game

In Class:

• Quiz

· Discussion of Leaderboards and how to implement them using existing tools

· Selected students will demonstrate their games

· Class Evaluations

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Review:

• Blog Analytics
• Facebook Analytics
• YouTube Analytics
• Design Portfolio (online material only)

· All students will play the other student’s games and give feedback