Computer Science and Game Design Modules

This course focuses on designing and implementing digital game prototypes, with an emphasis on integrating mechanics, controls, and camera. Additional topics include building tension to create engagement and implementing player feedback techniques.

This course is the second semester of the three-semester project begun in GAM 300 or GAM 302. This semester focuses on moving into full production, ending with the project ready to enter post-production in GAM 375 in the following semester.

This course introduces major topics in psychology, specifically as they relate to cognition and learning. These topics include perception, cognition, personality and social psychology, and biological aspects of behaviour. Students are also introduced to human information processing, memory, problem-solving, attention, perception, and imagery. Other topics covered may include mental representation and transformation, language processing, and concept formation.

This course is the final semester of the three-semester project begun in GAM 300 or GAM 302 and continued in GAM 350. This semester focuses on post-production and shipping the final project.