“The best way to learn games is to play games. The best way to make games is to work.” – Alan Emrich
Your Graded Course Project Game:
1. Continue to work on your Course Project Game according to your Project Plan.
2. You must bring in your updated Project Plan to class next week, when you and I will again discuss your project game and plan and I will again grade it (for up to 3 points).
Sample Final Game Project Plans
This Week’s Tutorial Game
When we left class today, Game Maker Tutorial #15 (Cursed Undead) was, at best, merely discussed and not even formally started. Your homework this week begins by completing this tutorial lesson.
There is no required homework due for this game. (Your final game is the most important use of your time and attention during our interim between classes this week.)
However, you can do some modding for Cursed Undead and garner yourself some serious Extra Credit. What sort of mods?
Adding new monster, wall, and / or treasure items (be sure to come up with appropriate artwork for them).
Beautify / re-theme the game with a graphics overhaul.
Create new dungeon levels to explore, perhaps starting small (a tutorial?) at the “top” of the dungeon and getting progressively larger and more dangerous as you reach its deepest levels.
Since this is an Extra Credit assignment, your .gm6 save game file is due at any time before the end of the course, either on disk or via email to the instructor.
Course Textbook, Game Development Essentials: An Introduction
Chapter 9, Audio: Read pages 258-289.
Game audio is vital, and you’ve already had some experience thinking about it in terms of sound feedback queues and background music using Game Maker. A game’s audio designer is someone that, it seems, everyone on a game project team has to work with, so understanding what these team members face in terms of effects and music is important to your education as a future game developer. Although this chapter is filled with a lot of 'war story' sidebars, be sure that you have a good understanding its main narrative for the exam on Week 9.
