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Game engine
The document provides an overview of game engines, including their functions, types, and features, aimed at Year 10 students studying creative media. It categorizes game engines into three types: low level for creating your own, mid level that requires programming, and high level requiring minimal coding. The document also encourages students to research game engines and reflect on the ethical debate regarding violence in video games.
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- 1. Interactive Media and Gaming Creative Media BTEC Level 2 Teacher:Mr. McGee Slides adapted from David Parsons Slideshare: http://tinyurl.com/on5kv5t Class: Year 10 IMG
- 2. Game Engine • Gameengines allow developers to quickly create assets and apply motion to increase the user experience. • The game engine for Angry birds controls: • Initial state (Birds, pigs, woodpile) • Starts the game loop • Take user input events (fire catapult) • Updates and display game state (bird flying, things collide) • Game loop finishes indicating you score (Win or Lose)
- 3. Pong! Pac manand Space invaders
- 4. Abstraction Like every softwaretool, a games engine provides a level of abstraction to hide underlying complexity Game Engines Provide: • Graphics rendering (2D or 3D) • Physics/collision engine • Scene graphs • Animation • Scripting • AI • And a whole lot more… Source: http://www.giantbomb.com/images/1300-2500834
- 5. Your turn! • Researchgame engines and make a list in your School OneNote! • Write down names and platform the operate on (i.e. Xbox, etc)
- 6. Three Categories ofGame Engine • Type one: Create your own (Low level) • Use API’s (XNA & OpenGL) • Type two: Nearly-ready (mid level) • Requires some programming to finish the game • Type three: Point and click (highest level) • Little need for code to publish a game (i.e. Unity3D, Unreal Engine)
- 7. Ethics: Should violencebe removed from games? In your OneNote provide a paragraph detailing your point of view on this Issue. You have 5 mins!
- 8. Research task! • Usethe links to research the different types of game engine • Type one: http://www.develop-online.net/tools-and- tech/why-a-plucky-band-of-developers-build-their-own- game-engines/0205448 • Type two: https://html5gameengine.com • Type three: Unity3D website
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