Game Design

GAME DESIGN FUNDAMENTALS Role of Game Designer, Structure of Games, major genres, game concepts, game worlds, working with formal elements, dramatic elements and system dynamics, storytelling, game play, core mechanics, game balancing, principles of Level Design, Conceptualization, prototyping, playtesting.

GAME AI Game AI, AI model, algorithms for Movement, Path finding, Decision making, Tactical and Strategic AI, Procedural Content Generation, Board Games

GAME ENGINE Rendering engine and pipeline, Scene Graph, Level of Detail, sorting, Animation Systems, Collision and Rigid Body dynamics.

2D GAME DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION GoDot game engine Designing and Prototyping a simple 2D Game, including character design, storytelling, levels. Implementing the Game in pygame or Godot engine or equivalent.

3D GAME DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION Designing and Prototyping a simple 3D Game, including character design, storytelling, levels. Implementing the Game in pygame or Godot engine or Blender or equivalent.