Lectures

Notes for dates later than the next class day are provisional and subject to change. Lecture notes are all in PDF format.

Date Title Readings and Assignments Extras
8/24 Introduction to Game Engines
8/26 Game Engine Architecture  
8/28 Component-based Design Assignment 0 Available  
8/31 Godot Overview  
9/2 3D Engines and Scene Graphs  
9/4 3D Engines and Scene Graphs  
9/7 Labor Day  
9/9 Graphics Pipeline Overview  
9/11 Materials and Textures Assignment 0 Due Sunday

Assignment 1 Available

 
9/14 Materials and Textures  
9/16 Assignment 0 Exam  
9/18 DevOps and Quality Assurance  
9/21 Physics Overview Teams Assigned  
9/23 Collision Detection  
9/25 Interacting with Simulations Assignment 1 Due Sunday

Assignment 2 Available

 
9/28 Interactive Animations  
9/30 GUI and Sound  
10/2 Introduction to Game AI Milestone 2.1 Due Sunday  
10/5 AI Decision Trees and Rule Systems  
10/7 AI Behavior Trees and Fuzzy Logic  
10/9 Path Planning Assignment 2 Due Sunday

Assignment 3 Available

 
10/12 A* Heuristics  
10/14 Dynamic Path Planning  
10/16 Assignment 2 Exam Milestone 3.1 Due Sunday  
10/19 Networking Overview  
10/21 Networking Overview  
10/23 Socket Programming Assignment 3 Due Sunday

Assignment 4 Available

 
10/26 Socket Programming  
10/28 Particles and Flocking Behavior  
10/30 Assignment 3 Exam Milestone 4.1 Due Sunday  
11/2 Fast Shading  
11/4 Machine Learning in Games
Final Project Available 		 
11/6 Final Project Group Formation Assignment 4 Due Sunday  
11/9 Realtime Global Illumination Technical Document Due  
11/11 Procedural Generation  
11/13 Assignment 4 Exam  
11/16 Guest Lecture  
11/18 Guest Lecture  
11/20 Guest Lecture Alpha Due Sunday  
11/23-11/27 Thanksgiving Holiday  
11/30 Class Presentations  
12/2 Class Presentations  
12/4 Class Presentations Final Project Trailer Due Sunday  
12/7 Trailer Watch Party + Award Ceremony Final Project Due  
12/10 Digital Demo Day GDC Atrium A 3pm - 6pm open house  

Last modified: 08/19/25 by Sarah Abraham theshark@cs.utexas.edu