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Final Game Demonstrations

Foundations of Interactive Game DesignProf. Jim Whitehead

March 14, 2007

Course Evaluations

• Please complete your course evaluations in class today during slack times in the demonstrations‣ I personally read each evaluation

• Course evaluation, as well as TA evaluations• TAs for the course‣ Ken Hullett‣ David Olsen

‣ Jacob Telleen

• Nate, Nic, Jeff, and Tim are technically “reader/tutors”‣ No evaluations for them.

‣ (I know they did great)

Final Exam

• Details given while the judges are deliberating, towards the end of class

• Final Exam‣ Monday, March 19, 12 noon‣ In Media Theater

Judges

• Matt Hamre‣ Visual Concepts Entertainment (2K Sports)

www.2ksports.com

• David Luebke‣ nVidia

www.nvidia.com

• Josiah Pisciotta‣ Chronic Logic

www.chroniclogic.com

• Shannon Posniewski‣ Cryptic Studios

www.crypticstudios.com

Selection Process

• The Professor and TAs selected the top 2-6 best games from each demonstration group‣ This is the candidate pool

• Professors and TAs met Monday afternoon, and had a demonstration of every game in the candidate pool‣ Each game in candidate pool was discussed

• Each person at the Monday meeting was given 8 votes to spend on the games in the candidate pool‣ Maximum of one vote per game per person‣ Top vote getters made it to the final 8

‣ Pretty clear distribution of games❖ Games in final 8 received 5 or more votes❖ Highest count in the rest of the pool was 3 votes

Honorable Mention

• The following are games of distinction that were created in class this quarter.‣ These are games from the candidate pool that did not make the final 8

‣ Shades of Black :: Nick Brenes, Jacky So‣ Crab Hunter Turbo :: John Bowidowicz, Matt Puppo‣ Bum Dreams :: Matt Folsom‣ Ying-Yang :: Robert DeArmond, Marc Wolterbeek‣ Wizard Ahern :: Logan Murdock, Trevor Prater‣ Ninja-Ninja :: Eric Mathieu‣ Neverquest :: Marialuz Garcia, Tuan Vo‣ Manaloc vs Monsada :: Nurudeen Asuni, Michael Mojica‣ Mackie Becca Bex :: Rohah Sheth, Raul Diaz‣ Color of Hope :: Kathryn Rieser, Tom Bowles‣ Discharge :: Asa Shively, Dustin Escoffery‣ Mutation :: Vinit Agarwal, Luke Quattrocchi‣ Super Cereal Carnage :: Ariel Klevecz, Tim Froehlig

The Final 8• Wastepaper‣ Collin Sanders, Paul Alani

• The Industry‣ Sam Zublin-Meyer

• Village of Shadow‣ Jimmy Fishel, Hunter Francis

• Zinn’s Psychotic Adventure‣ Jeffrey Lyon, Alexander Ray

• Bird Jumper‣ Greg Chesavage

• Malloc‣ Matvei Stefarov, Geon Lee

• Antivirus‣ David Chattin-McNichols

• Isle of Bandits‣ Christian Boe, Roby Behrens

The Prizes

• In keeping with my everlasting love of Shmups:

• Grand Prize‣ Radiant Silvergun (Saturn)‣ Subscription to “Alien Blaster” magazine

• First Prize‣ Gradius V (PS 2)‣ “Vic Viper” T-shirt

• Second Prize‣ Gradius (NES)

• Not giving away the XBox 360‣ No Shmups available for it, so you wouldn’t want it anyway...

The Real Prizes

• Grand Prize‣ Choice of XBox 360 or nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX‣ 2 XBox 360 games‣ City of Heroes (Cryptic Studios)‣ Game from Chronic Logic

• First Prize‣ Remainder of XBox 360 or nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX‣ XBox 360 game‣ City of Heroes (Cryptic Studios)‣ Game from Chronic Logic

• Second Prize‣ XBox 360 game‣ City of Villains (Cryptic Studios)

• Third Prize‣ XBox 360 game‣ City of Villains (Cryptic Studios)

Fourth-Eighth:Cryptic Studios T-Shirt

Wastepaper

Collin Sanders, Paul Alani

The Industry

Sam Zublin-Meyer

Village of Shadow

Jimmy Fishel, Hunter Francis

Zinn’s Psychotic Adventure

Jeffrey Lyon, Alexander Ray

Bird Jumper

Greg Chesavage

Malloc

Matvei Stefarov, Geon Lee

Antivirus

David Chattin-McNichols

Isle of Bandits

Christian Boe, Roby Behrens

Final Exam

• Combined take-home and in-class final• Before final:‣ Create an original non-computer game

❖ Board game, card game, dice game, RPG, etc.❖ Must be playable in about 30 minutes❖ Must be playable by two people❖ No drinking games

• During final:‣ Play game with another person in the class

❖ About 70 minutes. They play your game, you play their game.❖ Switch off with another person if you finish early

‣ Write brief 2-4 page essay on key design elements, and how the game fared during actual game play

• Assessment:‣ 25%: Game completed 75%: Quality of essay

Final Exam

• Monday, March 19, 12 noon‣ In Media Theater‣ Open book, open notes‣ May bring food‣ Psionic link to twin-brother separated at birth: no

• More details available on web by end of day Thursday

Course Evaluations

• Department Specific Issues

1. Pace of course: 1 (too fast) to 5 (too slow)2. Hours spent on course per week outside of class:

• 1 (0-5) 2 (6-9) 3 (10-13) 4 (14-17) 5 (18+)

3. Your major is:• 1. CE or CS 2. BINF 3. EE 4. ISTM 5. Other or undeclared

• TAs for the course:‣ Ken Hullett‣ David Olsen‣ Jacob Telleen

• Turn in to student volunteers near doors on way out

The Winners Are....

• Grand Prize: Malloc

• First Prize: Village of Shadow

• Second Prize: Bird Jumper

• Third Prize: Wastepaper

• Congratulations to the winners!

Games on the Web

• All CS 80K games can be found on the web at:http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/classes/cmps080k/Winter07/games/games.html