School of Computing, Clemson University
CpSc 481/681 - Sensor Enabled Game Development
Jason Hallstrom and Brian Malloy
Syllabus
August 20, 2007

1. Introduction

2. Drawing a surface with XNA

3. Drawing with blits

4. Colorkeys and transparency

5. Loading image formats

6. Sprite animation

7. Sprite Clipping

8. Parallax Scrolling

9. Explosions

10. AI, min-max trees, A* trees

11. The game shell

12. Processing input: Mouse, keyboard, joystick

13. Adding sound

14. Collisions, collision detection

15. Game time and timers

16. Adding Text

17. Game scripting with XNA

18. Using arrays to store game data: monsters

19. Using linked lists to store game inventories

20. Picking a winner & loser

21. The high score list

22. Pausing the game

23. Networked gaming