CMSC 498M

Student Presentations

Each talk should run about 10-15 minutes and may be given on the white board or given on the projector. If you plan to use the projector, please let me know so I can help get things set up before hand. Ideally, the focus of each talk should be on elements that you think will be of use/interest to your classmates (or anyone developing a game).

If you have any resources (files, links to web pages, your slides, etc), please send them to me and I'll post them here.

Date	Speakers	Topic	Related Resources
Tue Apr 19	Greg Benjamin	BSP Trees	BSP Trees (from Wikipedia)
Thu Apr 21	Steven Dobek	Pygame Engine	Pygame: Main page
Thu Apr 21	Trevor Hill	Cloth Simulation	Cloth Simulation Tutorial
Tue Apr 26	Andrew Ferguson	Partially Visible Sets and Partially Audible Sets	Potentially Visible Set (Wikipedia article) Potentially Visible Set (by Mikko Laakso) PVS (from the Valve Developer Community)
	Peter Enns	Automated Terrain Generation	DFS maze generation algorithm Fractal terrain generation
	Tiffany Chao	Unity 3D Engine	Unity 3D engine: Main page unityAnswers: Q & A forum Unity 3D scripting: Reference and API Unity 3D Resources: Tutorials, samples, and extensions Unity 3D User Manual
Thu Apr 28	Todd Watson	Game Cheating Tools	Memory Editor: ArtMoney Pro v7.27 Winsock Packet Sniffer/Editor: WPE PRO v0.9a Macro Recorder/Player: AutoRecorder v5.7
	Jess Gonzales	Sound for Games	SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer)
	William Goh	Designing Imperfect AI
Tue May 3	Sina Iman	Network-Based Cheating
	Richard Johnson	Open TK	Slides (for both Richard's and Nick's presentation)
	Nick Van Aarsten	Smooth Animation and Camera Control	Slides (for both Richard's and Nick's presentation)
	Chris Morton	Modeling in Blender	Blender (Not to be confused with this)
Thu May 5	Patrick Bracken Mike Meyers	XNA Game Studio	Microsoft XNA Game Studio
Tue May 10	Damon Earp	Navigation Meshes	Navigation Mesh Tutorial by Epic Games
Tue May 10	Douglas Hummel	Flash Game Development using ActionScript	AS2 game development (with Flash) AS2 development (without Flash)

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