Our lab work this week is to complete Game Maker Tutorial 11 (Tank Wars) and learn how to build a two-player game with some randomizing elements, a split-screen view, and a mini-map.
This exercise continues through this week's homework as you mod the game and study up on Balance in Multiplayer Games (The Game Maker's Apprentice Chapter 11) which continues as next week's lecture subject.
The link below is the homework assignment due at the beginning of the next class session.
These links feature the supplemental material that you are responsible for knowing before the first exam (that takes place at the beginning of Week 4). Be sure to click on every link in this section!
Game Maker Mini-Tutorial: Smooth Rotating Objects in Game Maker by Alan Emrich
This is a mini-tutorial lesson (hint: like the kind that you can write to earn Extra Credit in this class). Here you will discover the secret of the Animation features inside Game Maker's art tools and be able to create a single drawing and get all of the rotation subimages you need in one second flat.
These supplemental links are worth pursuing only if you wish to really learn the subject matter of game design in the broadest possible sense. This material will not be directly included in the exams, but if you're serious about being a game designer and delving deeply into the subject of game design art, craft, and science, here's some more lessons from others who have also "been there."
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Bibliography: General Course References
