Interdisciplinary Game Studio CS327
This is the official course website for Interdisciplinary Game Studio, CS 327,
co-taught by Ira Fay and Bassam
Kurdali at Hampshire College in Fall 2019.
Basic Info
The most important documents for this class are the syllabus
and weekly schedule. They contain useful information, and you are
expected to know what they contain.
Class Sessions: Mondays and Wednesdays 1pm - 2:20pm, ASH 112
Lab Session: Fridays 1pm - 4pm, ASH 126
Professors:
Ira Fay, (413) 559-6844, ASH 216, ifay@hampshire.edu and contact me on
Slack. Office Hours: By appointment. A sign up sheet is available digitally.
Bassam Kurdali, (413) 559-6296, ASH 220, bkurdali@hampshire.edu. Office Hours:
By appointment via https://maison.io/hampshire/bassam-kurdali.
Course Slack Channel: Hampshire Game Dev
(sign up here, then click
"Channels" on the left nav and choose #cs327)
Projects
Project details will be posted here when they are available.
Assignment 1
Useful Links
Portfolio
Folder (open only for a short time - will close at noon on Thursday, 9/7)
Reactor
Solitaire Game Design Document (GDD)
Intellectual Policy (IP) Agreement
List of Roles
Bonus Info
Email Lists
If you want to know about Game Development at Hampshire and in the Five
Colleges, join the Game
Development email list. You may also want to join the
Game
Jobs or
Game
Jam email lists. Programmers might want to join the
Computer
Science list, and artists might want to join the
Animation
list. In fact, you might just want to
browse all the lists at Hampshire and
find lists that appeal to you.
Game Library
We are fortunate that the Hampshire library has an ever-growing
collection of board
games and digital games. Students, staff, and faculty members have access to
this great resource. Please make use of it, and feel free to give feedback to
Ira on your experience.
GlowLime Games
GlowLime Games is a mostly-defunct student group that focused on facilitating game development among
students in the Five College area. If you are interested in starting it up
again, please contact Ira on Slack.
Pioneer
Valley Game Developers (PVGD)
The Pioneer Valley Game Developers (PVGD) meetup group is another great resource
and community for game developers in the area.
The Quarters
The Quarters is an incredible arcade +
restaurant. They have my full support, and their food is excellent and
reasonably priced. If anyone beats my
high score on Arkanoid, please let me
know.
Game Gatherings
Ira regularly explores new board games, ideally playing them with students to
increase all of our experience. If you're interested, contact him on Slack!
Game Stores
For some projects or just general fun, it may be useful for you to be aware
of nearby
boardgame stores.
Previous Survey Links
Future Team Survey
Final Survey
Week 7 Survey
Week 5 Survey
Mobile Device Survey
Week 2 Survey
Welcome Survey