Overview

Indicative content includes:

• Modeling + Animation - Meshes, rigging, UV mapping, skinning, inverse kinematics, key-frame animation, dynamic animation, blend trees, motion matching.
• Rendering - Rendering pipelines, cameras, lighting, lightmaps, volumes, blending, shadows, shaders, post-processing, particle systems, tessellation, real-time ray-tracing.
• Scripting - Common algorithms, API calls, vectors and quaternions
• Performance and Optimisation - Profiling, object pooling, level of detail, draw calls, batching, culling, mobile optimisation.
• Physics - Collision detection, rigid bodies, joints, articulated figures, soft bodies.
• Navigation and AI - Pathfinding, nav-meshes, finite state machines, behavioural trees.
• Procedural Generation - Procedural generation of environment, characters, animation, gameplay.
• New Technologies - Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, cloud computing.
• Misc - audio, input, haptics, streaming, networking, analytics, tools.

Learning Outcomes

• Critically reflect on different algorithms and techniques, and their impact on game development process and performance.

• Demonstrate intermediate C#/C++ programming skills.

• Demonstrate understanding of advanced game development concepts and techniques.

• Display knowledge of the state of the art and future of game development algorithms and techniques.

• Implement several advanced game development techniques in a game engine.

• Understand suitability of game development techniques across different platforms (PC, console, VR, mobile).