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.