Resources
Assets: (sounds, images, artwork, etc as used in games)
A really nice site with assets available
under a variaty of licenses. Most of them require attribution so make
sure to include that in your writeup.
The new home of spritelib -
which has several useful spritesheets
Free to use assets from
gameart2d
Free
Game Art Site used for tiled background
Reiner's tilesets. (game assets
available under very generous terms)
The Gimp(image editing software)
A youtube tutorial on
making images with tranparent backgrounds in GIMP that Sean pointed me
at.
Has Graphics - has a few useful
spritesheets
Simplified coding has some
nice tutorials on html5. I've used some of them in developing the course.
(and some of their open use image sheets)
Class Notes. From time to time I will put
up some of the class notes:
The intro lecture
The html5 intro
Simple Naive Movement in Games
What is a game
Time: Scrolling and Animation
Venues for Play
javascript objects
Game Goals
Collision Detection and simple sound
playing
Your players - and game review issues here
and abroad
Game Loops, slowing animation and odds and ends
Tiled backgrounds and loading files
Intellectual property
Vector based movement.
The
vector class I referenced
Game Conceptualization
Game Systems/Dynamics
Game AI Part I FSM and Flocking
Prototyping
Game AI part 2 - paths
Networking in games lightweight intro