Project Course in Game Development (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

1st Week
Grouping and ideas
2nd Week
Pitching the idea
3rd Week
Game mechanics working (start internal testing)
4th Week
Game assets implemented (continue internal testing)
5th Week
Version that can be tested with friends and family
6th Week
No session - Work on your game project
7h Week
Playable version that can be shown to strangers
8th Week
ICT Showroom event (Thu)
Post production and publishing, ICT Showroom event experiences
9th Week
Course wrap up and 3rd year GAIT Studies.

Objective

After completing the course, the student will be able to:
- Understand the roles in a game development team
- Utilize the most common game development tools and industry standards
- Understand various game development platforms
- Understand the game design process
- Utilize agile game development methods

Content

- The roles in the game development team
- Introduction of agile methods suitable for game development
- Game content creation
- Game programming
- Contemporary game development tools and game platforms
- Financing and publishing channels of the game industry

Materials

Due to the practical nature of this course, there is no prescribed learning material. All necessary documentation and other material toward the successful completion of the project course on game development will be shared with students throughout the course.
The learning platform UTU Moodle https://bit.ly/pcgd2025

Teaching methods

Weekly Friday morning meetings:
onsite meetings in ICT City
each team presents shortly the current status of their project
preferably with a workable and playable demo
each answers briefly the following three questions:
1. Have you achieved the previous goal?
2. What are you going to do next?
3. Is there something preventing you from doing it?

Weekly Friday Laboratory Meetings in ICT City C3031
Friday afternoon meeting will cover the week topic for game development as project and team work. Each team and member will plan and share the upcoming week task

The course will be delivered through close contact and practical Game Lab work. Peer-assisted learning is required throughout the course.

The course material, assignments and direct instructions will be shared through UTU Moodle workspace https://bit.ly/pcgd2025 and Itslearning for afternoon laboratory with TUAS students

Participation in at least 70% of the sessions is mandatory, and the group is required to present their progress weekly. Missing one session will result in a one-grade deduction, while missing two sessions will lead to failing the course.

Exam schedules

There are no exams for this course.

This course does not have any retake possibilities. Failing the course means that students will have to repeat it the following year.

International connections

This course leans on CDIO principles and takes a project-based learning approach.

Completion alternatives

Experience in published game project in a company. Contact the instructor.

Student workload

Close contact meetings and laboratory 51h
Team based project work 84h

Participation in at least 70% of the sessions is mandatory, and the group is required to present their progress weekly. Missing one session will result in a one-grade deduction, while missing two sessions will lead to failing the course.

Further information

Passing this course is a pre-requisite for continuing with 3th-year studies – no exceptions will be made.

Recommended Pre-requisite for this course is passed grading of Game Development Essentials, Introduction to Game Development Tools and Object Oriented Programming

This course requires mandatory participation for 70% of the sessions due weekly progress monitoring of each group and individual group member.

The groups must present the weekly progress each week.