FILM AND TELEVISION
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
SEN4515	Introduction to Game Programming	Spring	2	2	3	6

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Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Instructor BARIŞ YÜCE
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course aims to help students explore the game programming world by combining basic design and programming skills and to introduce the frequently used terms, techniques and algorithms in game development projects.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. Describes the vocabulary, environments, theories and methodologies used in game design.
2. Analyze game designs in terms of user interface design
3. Design data structures and algorithms.
4. Prepare the prototype.
5. Design educational games.
6. Analyze game development phases and project them.
7. Use basic game development environments and apply algorithms
8. Describes the stages of testing.

Course Content

This course will support students the emerging trends, and frameworks of game design and development, why it has a great potential to apply in IT projects, and how to use it effectively. The course allows students to understand game design fundementals, develop practical skills in using game elements using industrial case studies. There is no strict design and development environment for this course.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction
2)	What Is a Game?
3)	Design Components and Processes
4)	Game Programming: Languages And Architecture
5)	Mechanics and Dynamics
6)	Data structures and algorithms in game development
7)	Design a board game*
8)	Prototyping*
9)	Designing User Interfaces
10)	Design of instructional games
11)	Design of Instructional Games II
12)	Games as a Teaching Tool
13)	Game Production And The Business Of Games
14)	Project presentation

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Beginning Java Game Programming, Jonathan S. Harbour Cutting-Edge Java Game Programming, Bartlett, N., et. al.
References:

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Homework Assignments	4	% 30
Project	1	% 10
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	1	% 30
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 40
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Study Hours Out of Class	4	8	32
Project	1	3	3
Homework Assignments	6	6	36
Midterms	1	12	12
Final	1	13	13
Total Workload			138

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Being familiar to the main concepts and methods of the social sciences and the fine arts devoted to understanding the world and the society	4
2)	Having comprehensive knowledge regarding different media and branches of art	3
3)	Knowing the historical background of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey and keeping pace with the new developments in the area	1
4)	Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey	1
5)	Being able to create a narrative that could be used in a fiction or a non-fiction audio-visual moving image product	2
6)	Being able to write a script ready to be shot	2
7)	Having the skills to produce the photoboard of a script in hand and to shoot the film using the camera, the lights and other necessary equipment
8)	Being able to transfer the footage of a film to the digital medium, to edit and do other post-production operations
9)	Being able to create a documentary audio visual moving image from the preliminary sketch stage to shooting, editing and post-production stages
10)	Being able to produce an audio visual moving image for television and audio products for radio from preliminary stages through shooting and editing to the post-production stage
11)	Being culturally and theoretically equipped to make sense of an audio-visual moving image, to approach it critically with regard to its language and narration and being able to express his/her approach in black and white	3
12)	Having ethical values and a sense of social responsibility	5