Game Engines 2021W Project Guidelines

This page contains guidelines on the class project. This page will be updated based on questions and feedback.

Project Proposal

Your project proposal should be a relatively short document describing what you plan to do for your project. You should propose to make an original game, mechanics demonstration, or engine extension/modification.

Your proposal should:

• Have a title and your name
• List collaborators and explain how the collaboration will work
• Explain your motivation for what you are doing
• Describe what you plan to do
• Present what preliminary work you've done
• Outline your development plan, including milestones and dates
  • Be sure to include what you hope to have done by the preliminary report
  • Leave enough time to write your final report

Your proposal will be graded based on the following criteria:

• 40% Writing & presentation quality (organization, grammar, flow)
• 40% Technical scope
• 20% Creativity

I may change the relative weights of the categories, but only if it results in a better grade (i.e., a project that is really creative but not so technically demanding might get 40% creativity, 20% technical scope).

Note that part of technical scope is whether what you propose is doable within the time you have. So, if you propose something very ambitious you should have a lot of preliminary work completed.

Progress Report

• Discuss what you've done since the proposal.
• Explain how your progress compares to what you originally proposed.
• Provide drafts of what you can for the final report.

Final Report

Your report should have the following sections:

• Introduction/Overview
• Inspirations/Background
• Design
• Implementation
• Iteration/Evaluation
• Lessons Learned
• Conclusion

Grading will be based on:

• 30% Writing & presentation quality (organization, grammar, flow)
• 30% Technical scope
• 20% Creativity
• 20% Evaluation/Process

Again, the weighing may be changed.