English Students 2022
Game Jam 2024
Game Jam 2023 (Slovak Students)
Course Information
- The course is focused on the design and development of computer games.
- Over the semester, we will gradually highlight several important steps when designing games.
- We have two versions of the course, depending on circumstances
- In teams, you will continuously submit various documents, assessed by a small number of points (credit). You will continuously create a game and write a Game Design Document in teams. The culmination of the semester will be the final presentation of games, assessed with a greater number of points (exam).
- In teams, you will continuously submit various documents, assessed by a small number of points (credit). The culmination of the semester will be game jam (hackathon), during which you will program your games, assessed by a greater number of points (exam).
Recommended Literature
- Jesse Schell: The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, ISBN: 978-0-12-369496-6, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
- Tracy Fullerton: Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games, Third Edition, ISBN: 9781482217162, CRC Press
- Robert Nystrom: Game Programming Patterns, ISBN: 9780990582915, Genever Benning
- Jeremy Gibson: Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development: From Concept to Playable Game With Unity and C#, ISBN: 9780321933164, Addison-Wesley Professional
YouTube Channels
On-line Courses
- Video Game Design and Balance - Learn about the video game design process and experiment with effective methods for balancing a game’s mechanics.