CSCD 477 — VIRTUAL REALITY WITH COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND GAME ENGINES and VIRTUAL REALITY WITH COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND GAME ENGINES LAB

Participate in multidisciplinary projects in areas such as virtual reality, human-computer interaction, or robotics.

Oversee gameplay testing to ensure intended gaming experience and game adherence to original vision.

Create core game features, including storylines, role-play mechanics, and character biographies for a new video game or game franchise.

Learn to operate new technology systems and procedures through instruction, simulators, or models.

Present new game design concepts to management and technical colleagues, including artists, animators, and programmers.

Document all aspects of formal game design, using mock-up screenshots, sample menu layouts, gameplay flowcharts, and other graphical devices.

Balance and adjust gameplay experiences to ensure the critical and commercial success of the product.

Determine supplementary virtual features, such as currency, item catalog, menu design, and audio direction.

Create gameplay prototypes for presentation to creative and technical staff and management.

Review or evaluate competitive products, film, music, television, and other art forms to generate new game design ideas.

Participate in multidisciplinary projects in areas such as virtual reality, human-computer interaction, or robotics.

Program computerized graphic effects.

Create two-dimensional and three-dimensional images depicting objects in motion or illustrating a process, using computer animation or modeling programs.

Produce electronics drawings or other graphics representing industrial control, instrumentation, sensors, or analog or digital telecommunications networks, using computer-aided design (CAD) software.

Develop application-specific software.

Develop training materials and procedures, or train users in the proper use of hardware or software.

Use object-oriented programming languages, as well as client and server applications development processes and multimedia and Internet technology.

Learn to operate new technology systems and procedures through instruction, simulators, or models.

Design computer simulations to model physical data so that it can be better understood.

Plan and develop audio-visual devices for public programs.

Create two-dimensional and three-dimensional images depicting objects in motion or illustrating a process, using computer animation or modeling programs.

Create visual representations of geospatial data, using complex procedures such as analytical modeling, three-dimensional renderings, or plot creation.

Program computerized graphic effects.

Create three-dimensional or interactive representations of designs, using computer-assisted design software.

Design computer simulations to model physical data so that it can be better understood.

Prepare and alter trace maps, charts, tables, detailed drawings, and three-dimensional optical models of terrain using stereoscopic plotting and computer graphics equipment.

Integrate and develop visual elements, such as line, space, mass, color, and perspective, to produce desired effects, such as the illustration of ideas, emotions, or moods.

View monitors for visual representation of work in progress and for instructions and feedback throughout process, making modifications as necessary.

Prepare and revise initial game sketches using two- and three-dimensional graphical design software.

Prepare two-dimensional concept layouts or three-dimensional mock-ups.