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