Week four of the series: Material focuses on preparing to respond to a brief alongside a discussion of Game Engines

1. Working to a Brief Week 4 – 25.05.2011 Responding Correctly

2. Quiz Q1:What computer classic sent players to Phobos to blast Specters, Lost Souls and Cacodemons? Q2:What slimy video game has bad guys named Professor Monkey-for-a- Head, Evil the Cat from Heck and Bob, the Killer Goldfish? Q3:What videogame hero must unseat King K. Rool in a 3-D update of a Nintendo classic? Q4:Omnislash hits how many times? Q5:In Mortal Kombat on the Mega Drive – how did you perform Skorpions Fatality?

3. Working to a Brief What did we do last week?

4. Working to a Brief Recap from last week Looked into planning a response for a brief Mindmaps / aims & objectives / risks Highlighted key areas to be addressed Highlighted potential problems Risks Ethical Issues Unforeseen circumstances

5. Assignment! Assignment was due on the 20th Who didn’t hand it in? Why not! Majority of the assignments are good and have been marked What have I learnt from your assignments? Clarification of brief type and structure Clarification of Negotiation & Opportunities What needs to improve Annotations Discussions

6. Planning for Success! Solving a brief So far we have looked at analysing and breaking briefs down, but what do we do when we need to provide a solution? Do we simply respond to it? Do we have special considerations? Do we need to cater for certain requirements? Do we need to make sure that the solution is safe to complete? What about planning then?

7. Planning for Success! Planning – a recap Prepare planning material to meet the requirements Mind map / Brainstorm Are you planning all outcomes? Are you being critical of your performance? Are you meeting all the requirements from within the brief? Are you achieving all of the project requirements? Are we meeting all goals, do we have further outcomes to plan for?

8. Assignment! Check your emails! I have sent the second assignment to all of you via the email you provided to us here at Confetti – if you don’t have it, you need to update us with your new email address! Has two objects in the folder, the assignment document itself alongside the brief in which you will be working towards solving A much more involved assignment than the first!

9. Assignment! Check your emails! I have sent the second assignment to all of you via the email you provided to us here at Confetti – if you don’t have it, you need to update us with your new email address! Has two objects in the folder, the assignment document itself alongside the brief in which you will be working towards solving A much more involved assignment than the first!

10. Game Engines What is a game engine? What is the difference between a “game” and a “game engine”?

11. Id Tech 1 (Doom) Revolutionary Engine Adapted from Wolfenstein the previous year Gave the illusion of 3D Height Rooms not stacked Fast Rendering 1993

12. Renderware Over 200 titles produced Multi-platform – not just for PC 1996

13. Unreal Epic Games Unreal & Unreal Editor Software & Hardware Rendering UnrealScript 1998

14. GameBryo Extremely successful Multi-platform Engine Dynamic Collision Detection & Particle Systems Used in Fallout 3 & Oblivion 2003

15. id Tech IV Groundbreaking Engine development Switched from C to C++ Code overhaul Realistic Lighting and Depth Hardware Dependant Benchmarking 2004

16. FrostBite Shader Heavy Engine Graphically Impressive Multiple Shaders Destructible Environments Multi-platform compatible 2008

17. Anvil / Scimitar Built from the ground up Multi-threading engine Dynamic World Creation Uses a variety of middleware components for certain tasks (i.e. Autodesk’s HumanIK for enhanced movement and animation mechanics 2008

18. Game Engines Many types available Make sure you chose the right one to complete the task you have been set in the assignment Are you focused on the correct methods?

19. Overview What have you learnt in the session?