Calendar

This calendar is mostly for planning purposes, but may be useful as an easy way to view deadlines across the quarter.

Note that assignments are listed as due on Friday when due on the Sunday after.

Week	Day	Reading	Lecture	Lab	Assignment 1	Assignment 2	Assignment 3	Lab 1	Lab 2	Lab 3	Lab 4	Lab 0	Lab 5	Physical Game Prototyping	Physical Game Production	Digital Game Physical Prototype	Digital Game Digital Prototype	Digital Game Production	Digital Game Design Document	Digital Game Team Evaluations
1	Monday 4/2		Enrollment/Waitlist Lecture Introduction Class Survey
1	Wednesday 4/4		Workshop Broken Games
1	Friday 4/6	Chapter 1: The Role of the Game Designer	Lecture Game Design Definitions Think about project ideas! Game pitches are Monday 4/9!
2	Monday 4/9	Chapter 6: Conceptualization	Lecture Conceptualization Project Game Pitches	Workshop Brainstorming
2	Wednesday 4/11	Chapter 7: Prototyping	Lecture Iterative Prototyping	Project Physical Prototyping
2	Friday 4/13		Video Game Maker's Toolkit - Nintendo	Project Physical Prototyping
3	Monday 4/16	Chapter 9: Playtesting	Lecture Playtesting	Project Physical Prototyping
3	Wednesday 4/18		Project Physical Prototype Refinement	Project Physical Prototype Playtesting
3	Friday 4/20	Chapter 2: The Structure of Games Chapter 3: Working with Formal Elements	Lecture Formal Elements Workshop Formal Elements	Project Board Game Production
4	Monday 4/23		Project Board Game Production	Project Board Game Production
4	Wednesday 4/25		Project Board Game Playtesting	Project Board Game Playtesting
4	Friday 4/27	Chapter 4: Working with Dramatic Elements	Lecture Dramatic Elements
5	Monday 4/30	Class was cancelled
5	Wednesday 5/2		Video Emergent Storytelling Project Unity Game Pitches	Project Unity Game Team Formation & Brainstorming
5	Friday 5/4	Chapter 8: Digital Prototyping	Lecture Game Math	Project Unity Game Brainstorming
6	Monday 5/7	Chapter 14: The Design Document	Lecture Collision Detection	Project Unity Game Physical Prototyping
6	Wednesday 5/9		Lecture Game AI: Pathfinding	Project Unity Game Physical Prototyping
6	Friday 5/11		Project Unity Game Physical Prototyping	Project Unity Game Physical Prototype Playtesting
7	Monday 5/14		Lecture Game AI: Behavior	Project Unity Game Digital Prototyping
7	Wednesday 5/16	Chapter 5: Working with System Dynamics	Lecture Object-Oriented Game Development	Project Unity Game Digital Prototyping
7	Friday 5/18	Chapter 10: Functionality, Completeness, and Balance	Lecture System Dynamics & Game Balance Video Mark Brown: Should Dark Souls Have An Easy Mode?	Project Unity Game Digital Prototyping
8	Monday 5/21	Chapter 11: Fun and Accessibility	Workshop BattleBattle! Game Balancing	Workshop BattleBattle! Battle Royale
8	Wednesday 5/23	Chapter 12: Team Structures	Lecture Computer Graphics	Project Work on Sprint 1
8	Friday 5/25		Project Sprint 1 Checkins	Project Sprint 1 Checkins
9	Monday 5/28	Academic holiday - Memorial Day observed
9	Wednesday 5/30	Chapter 13: Stages of Development	Workshop Prisoner's Dilemma Video Juice it or Lose it	Project Work on Sprint 2
9	Friday 6/1		Project Sprint 2 Checkins	Project Sprint 2 Checkins
10	Monday 6/4	Class was cancelled
10	Wednesday 6/6		Project Playtesting Session	Project Playtesting Session
10	Friday 6/8	Chapter 15: Understanding the Game Industry Chapter 16: Selling Yourself and Your Ideas to the Game Industry	Lecture Game Genres Lecture Virtual Reality	Project Sprint 3 Checkins
11	Monday 6/11	Final Project Displays: Monday 6/11 10:10am - 1:00pm