You must do either a written report (2-5Pages) or a programming project;
You will also have to do a 5-15 minute presentation on your project in
the last week of class.
NCR Kiosk versus GameStop for exchanging Video Games
Video games as TV Game Shows 1vs100
Microsoft Project Natal next generation user interface (gestures) or is it Virtual Reality
Spore was game of the year 07-08 E3, highly anticipated once released becomes another hyped unevenfull - event
Games efficiently using multi-core processors, run games processor explorer?
was PSP3 too much hardware
Duke NUKem 3D is out, why so long?, Doom 4, Half life 3, Unreal 3.
Key 2009 Games Releases: DS's Dragon Quest IX: Hoshizora no Mamoribito,” said Ricky K Tanimoto, Global Marketing Analyst, Enterbrain, Inc. “There are also big console 2009, such as Monster Hunter 3 and Final Fantasy XIII
Flash is Offered Wednesday Fall & Spring 7-10:00; ActionScript 2nd 8 Weeks
3D-RPAM - Project Group 1 Become familiar with a 3D editor, or virtual world editor; Create an object or Avatar; Save the 3D entity in stl format ( VRML is a standard format but 3-D printers use stl) and print it out using Saddleback's Rapid prototyping facilities.
In the Fall you may want to pursue a solid works class. May be hard to get to RPAM this summer, it has moved to UCI.
Prefer is you use the 3-D Modeling tool, google sketch up, with kerkythea rendering system. You can export kerkythea into Flash or into kerkythea for rendering. In Rendering you add surface textures, and light sources. Kerkythea can then export mutliple JPEGs for use in Flash animation. Maya 3D and 3D Max are alternate solutions to this process.
Download Maya Personal Edition and create a virtual 3-D object, and using Saddleback's Rapid Prototyping, turn you virtual object into a physical representation.
Summer 2007 Most students went with blender3d.org - Open Source 3D editor, blender3d has on-line tutorials. You can use RPAM to print your object, Student Project Summer 2007. Also wikibooks has several tutorials on blender3D, and you can see blender3D in actions from these YouTube Videos...
Create a virtual character avatar or object in WoW, 2nd Life or SimCity; look into doing a 3D OpenGL capture and using a 3D editor - print out the Avatar.In this class you may not get far enough along to actually print the Avatar.
Generic Projects...
Rise of Smart Phone - Mobile Gaming.
Popular Gaming Conventions or TradeShows (E3, Quake, etc)
E3 is a project but tokyo game show and CES is popular.
Has the Video Game Industry entering the Cyclic Phase? Should one buy Video Game Stocks?
