| Session
| Topic
| Notes
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| August 20 | Course Overview | Took survey
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| August 20 | Create Your Profile |
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| August 25 | Create Your Blog |
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| August 25 | Learning Game Design | Game Design Unit Topics
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| August 27 | Playing to Learn |
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| August 27-Sept 8 | Pick Three Game | We'll form teams on the wiki, develop a game and learn the testing process.
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| September 10 | Class discussion: Animal Vegetable Miracle | What concepts within the book could be developed into a game?
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| September 15 | Catch up with Blogger |
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| September 17 | How to draw with Illustrator | While you can draw in Flash, Illustrator is a better tool. Import a creative commons photo of a vegetable and trace it.
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| September 22 | How to import in Illustrator, draw in Flash, and do a simple animation | Import your Illustrator vegetable into Flash and post the swf and fla files into your Projects. Feeling daring? Make it animate! Be sure to read the Drawing in Flash tutorial so you understand that concept as well.
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| September 24-October 1 | Mini Game Project | Feel free to integrate your own artowrk. What can you do to expand the game beyond what the tutorial shows?
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| October 8 | Imagining Your Game |
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| October 15-22 | Paper Prototyping | We'll be doing filming on the 22nd.
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| October 27 | Planning Your Game | We've already formed team pages, but add team roles and a schedule.
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| September 17 | Drawing in Flash | You guys know Illustrator is a better tool for drawing, but sometimes Flash is handy to know too.
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| November 10-12 | Adding Navigation | DO THIS OUTSIDE OF CLASS
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| November 10-12 | Adding Animation | DO THIS OUTSIDE OF CLASS
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| November 17-19 | Adding Sound | DO THIS OUTSIDE OF CLASS
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| November 17-19 | Adding Interaction | DO THIS OUTSIDE OF CLASS
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| add date | Assembling The Game |
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| add date | Presenting Your Game |
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| add date | Development Plan | Game Development Unit Topics
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| add date | Intro to ActionScript |
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| add date | Programming Practices |
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| add date | Learning from Others |
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| add date | Finding Solutions |
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| add date | Game Development Topic from Your Plan | TBD by each Game team
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| add date | Game Development Topic from Your Plan | TBD by each Game team
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| add date | Game Development Topic from Your Plan | TBD by each Game team
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| add date | Game Development Topic from Your Plan | TBD by each Game team
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| add date | Game Development Topic from Your Plan | TBD by each Game team
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| add date | Game Development Topic from Your Plan | TBD by each Game team
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| add date | Game Development Topic from Your Plan | TBD by each Game team
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| add date | Game Development Topic from Your Plan | TBD by each Game team
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| add date | Game Development Topic from Your Plan | TBD by each Game team
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| add date | Game Development Topic from Your Plan | TBD by each Game team
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| add date | Game Development Topic from Your Plan | TBD by each Game team
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| add date | Testing and Debugging |
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| add date | Publishing Your Game |
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