2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Oct 31, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

VGD 122 - Video Game Development for Game Engines II


Description: Techniques and skills necessary to create games in multiple genres for recreational and educational uses. Includes the applications of coding, interactive game logic, variables and simple probability when developing video games.

Prerequisites: VGD 121  (May be taken concurrently).

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Screen based text and audio files
  2. Character controllers
  3. Particle Systems
  4. Animator and animations introduction
  5. Audio
  6. Use of variables to maintain object states
  7. Use of variables and simple probabilities in determining decision outcomes
  8. File optimization

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Demonstrate use of game development software by creating an error free project. (1-8)
  2. Create interactive game logic.  (1-8)
  3. Utilize advanced game design and coding techniques. (1-7)
  4. Develop games in multiple genres. (2, 7)
  5. Utilize artificial intelligence techniques. (1,2, 4-6)