Game Programming and 3D Animation

11B1850

Bachelor

German

5.0

winter and summer term

1 semester

Digital games have become a significant part of our everyday life. Platforms for playing games are manifold, whether you play on PC, on console on the couch, or on smartphone while traveling. Games are nowadays ubiquitous and represent a billion-dollar industry. While game genres and platforms are versatile the foundations for developing games remain the same and can be reused for different projects. Thus, understanding the foundations is crucial for successfully creating games. In this course students will learn the basic concepts and methods to develop games and create 3D assets.

This module teaches basic techniques, systems and principles of game programming & 3D animation:

1. Software architecture of games: game loops, entities, game states, etc.

2. Character Animation: Riging, Keyframing, Skinning

3. Procedural Animation: Inverse Kinematics & Swarms

4. Physically plausible representation methods and materials

5. Basics of game design

6. Artificial intelligence for games

7. Real-time physics simulation for rigid and soft bodies

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• Portfolio exam

• Field work / Experimental work

Graded examination performance:

• Written work sample in the form of a project as part of the portfolio examination: with a workload of approx. 50 hours.
• Presentation as part of the portfolio examination: approx. 10-30 minutes.

Ungraded examination performance:

• Experimental work: Experiment: approx. 5-6 experiments in total.

Linear Algebra & Computer Graphics

Students, which successfully studied the course, know how games are created, which techniques are used and how to develop efficiently real-time applications.

Students will obtain extensive knowledge in programming run-time and memory efficient applications. Furthermore they will be able to design efficient algorithms in the context of multimedia applications.

Students can critically assess studies from game development, real-time computer graphics & 3D animation based on their current methodological expertise.

Students can develop digital games from conception to operation, taking into account the technical complexity of the media types covered.

Students can design methods and procedures that are suitable for systematically working on and solving selected problems from game development practice in and by organizations.

 The students can present their work results orally and in writing in a clearly structured form.

Students can understand and implement scientific methods and articles from the areas of 3D animation, game development and interactive computer graphics in a reasonable amount of time. In addition, they can develop their own procedures that build on the fundamentals from the course.

• Lensing, Philipp

• Lensing, Philipp