CISC 326: Game Architecture [Fall 2016]

Class Schedule




Module	Topic (Slides)	Readings
1	Introduction, Syllabus, admin	What is a software Architecture?, Peter Eeles Characteristics of a software architect, Peter Eeles
2	Challenges in Game Development
3	Non Functional Requirements (NFR) and Quality Attributes	Introducing the Case Study, Ian Gorton Software Quality Attributes, Ian Gorton
5	Steam Store	Slides are available via onQ.
4	Software Architecture: Intro and Styles	An Introduction to Software Architecture, David Garlan and Mary Shaw
5	Reference Architecture	A Reference Architecture for Web Servers, Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt. A Case Study in Architectural Analysis: The Evolution of the Modern Web Browser, Alan Grosskurth and Michael W. Godfrey
6	Reflexion Models	Using Development History Sticky Notes to Understand Software Architecture, Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt.
7	Design Patterns	Design patterns : elements of reusable object-oriented software, Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John M. Vlissides.




Project

• This year's project is: SuperTuxKart
• NEW Scitools has gratefully donated Understand licenses for us to study the architecture of SuperTuxKart.
  NEW Follow this link to download the Understand project along with the source code for SuperTuxKart.
  
• Project Details (PDF)
• Documenting a Software Architecture by Ian Gorton
  
  

  Assignments	Presentation Marking Schemes	Presentation Marking Schemes
  A1	A1 Presentation	A1 Report
  A2	A2 Presentation	A2 Report
  A3	A3 Presentation	A3 Report

  
  
  
• Group Project Updates (This term)

  Groups	Members
  1. ArKartTuxture	Siyi Emily Bao, Alexandra McManus, Zheng Du, Xiao Li, Grant Zeidler, Michal Pasternak
  2. F++	Justice Blair, Christopher Givelas, Warren Lamb, Sean Mombourquette, Hassan Shahid, Yilun Xiao
  3. LEMON SQZ	Sara Croitoru, Jake Pittis, Erik Pilkington, Aniqah Mair, Matt Bettinson, Ryan Johnston
  4. Need for Tux	Matthew Pollack, Daniel Lucia, Michael Wilson, Morgan Scott, Nicholas Radford, Pj Murray
  5. Neo-Tux	Latifa Azzam, Phoebe Lai, Selena Sun, Shirley Xiao, Wanyu Zhang, Zainab Bello
  6. Pangolin	Caleb Aikens, Russell Dawes, Mohammed Gasmallah, Leonard Ha, Vincent Hung, Joseph Landy
  7. Sensible Chuckle	Sam Strike, Michael Spiering, Ben Mitchell, Alex Mersereau, Will Gervais, David Cho
  8. Suboptimal Design Decisions	Ly Sung, Melody Huang, Calvin Che, Jefferson Tingle, Misha Bychkov, Michael Dulberg
  9. Super Gaming Bros	Tyler Gawalewicz, Yilun Xiao, Daniel Kryzanowski, Justin Motazedian, Conor O'Hanlon, Sasha Sreckovic
  10. SuperFunKart	Alex Globus, Annika Nicol, Lucy Rowland, Mahad Amir, Matt Williams, and Alex Weatherhead
  11. Ted Mosby: Game Architect	Christian Mellows, Colin Bingham, Khamil Alhade, Matan Feldberg, Peter Scherzinger, Tyler Doyle
  12. The Architects	Jake Gibbons, Jacob Clarke-Mcrae, Hassan Hanino, Ryan Tse, Dominique Flabbi, Athena Fung
  13. The Brogrammers	Mitchell Mulder, Greg Slasor, Guang Yu Song, Jacob Kadzielski, Jiefan Luo, Nathaniel Cheung
  14. The Engineers	Aranjit Daid, Clark Holdham, Nolan Nisbet, Ameris Rudland, Jeffrey Turnock, Madeline Van Der Paelt
  15. Unnamed Group	Adam Gough, Alperen Aydin, Howard Song, Larry Sun, Shane Atkinson, Zaid Mohmand
  16. We Them Boys ft. P. Bennett	Ramy Ayash, Nick Purdye, Karol Stanski, Pauline Bennett, Christopher Dean, Corey Maikawa
  17. stage rage	Hannah Duncan, Austin Attah-poku, Nicole Ellis, Peter Li, Krystina Correa, Graham Miller
  18. Sudo Give us A+	David Liu, Andrea Ianni, Jay Zhao, Jake Del Mastro, Evan Marsland, Ceresa van Lieshout

  
  
  

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