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GAME 430 Production Team 3: Postproduction

5 credits
This course builds on Production Team 2: Production and focuses on completing, testing, and marketing the project. Throughout the course, the development will end and the project will be prepared for release and submission.

Prerequisites: GAME 422  

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

  • Finalize and playtest a game concept started in DGIM 415 Production Team 2
  • Develop marketing strategy
  • Create concept art and promotional graphics for marketing
  • Design a website to market each team’s game
  • Produce and apply appropriate sound effects and transitions to game design
  • Examine all assets for appropriate file extensions and optimization
  • Schedule delivery plans for various platforms
  • Finalize occlusion culling plane strategy
  • Resolve all memory issues
  • Implement baked lighting into game

Program Outcomes
This course teaches to the following program outcomes:

  • develop expertise in concepting, designing, and building in-engine game play environments with interactive elements, with emphasis on technical proficiency in workflow, rendering pipelines, shaders, and effects
  • produce project architecture, workflow, and pipeline working with data structures, porting to mobile platforms, and utilizing inter-process communication techniques and graphics processing units programming
  • develop proficiency creating and integrating user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) into interactive projects with an emphasis on human-centered design theory and principles of inclusive and accessible design
  • create multi-disciplinary software development projects that mirror professional work flow, incorporating game design, conceptualization, and creation of digital assets, sound design, audio production, software integration, and project management

Total Hours: 60 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 40 Guided Practice (Lab or Clinical) Hours: 20