First-Day Back

Teaching starts:Monday 21st January 2008

Provisional

8th January 200814:00

2 hour examwww.derby.ac.uk/exam

BSC COMPUTER GAMES PROGRAMMING

LEVEL FOUR

LUDOLOGY4CC048

Answer any THREE questions from four.All questions carry equal marks.Calculators are permitted.

3 questions are of the same format1 question that is slightly different

3 questions

• Based around a single lecture• If you attended the lecture and revised the

slides you are looking at 66%• Additional 33%

– Took lecture notes– Completed tutorials– Reading exercises

Main Topics

• Games Industry• Industry Case

Study• Indie Gaming• Machinima

• Games History• Genres• Serious Games• MMOG

1 question

• About industry people– Some of these we would have spoke

about at great length– Some of these you read about for

homework– Some of these I mentioned in passing

Christmas Work

• 5 weeks till teaching resumes• 2 weeks are holiday• Use 3 self-study weeks wisely (120 hours)

Last chance to get back on track!!!

Course-related• Maths

– You’ve had a taster of what is required– You know if you need to work more

• Game Design– Stay up-to-date– Register with Second Life– Complete XNA Deliverable (10% marks)– Deliverable instructions will appear on wiki

Course-related

• Software Development– Revisit all your work– Additional exercises

• Algorithms & Data Structures

Wiki

• cgp.wikidot.com• Sign up for an account• Password = mario’s surname

• This is your site – you can do what you want to it!!!

• Check your pitch timeslot here

Enjoy your Christmas

See you at your pitch