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
8/25 Introduction to Game Engines
8/27 Game Engine Architecture  
8/29 Component-based Design Assignment 0 Available  
9/1 Labor Day  
9/3 Godot Overview  
9/5 3D Engines and Scene Graphs  
9/8 3D Engines and Scene Graphs  
9/10 Graphics Pipeline Overview  
9/12 Materials and Textures Assignment 0 Due

Assignment 1 Available

 
9/15 Materials and Textures  
9/17 DevOps and Quality Assurance  
9/19 Physics Overview  
9/22 Collision Detection Teams Assigned  
9/24 Interacting with Simulations  
9/26 Interactive Animations Assignment 1 Due

Assignment 2 Available

 
9/29 GUI and Sound  
10/1 Introduction to Game AI  
10/3 AI Decision Trees and Rule Systems Milestone 2.1 Due Sunday  
10/6 AI Behavior Trees and Fuzzy Logic  
10/8 Path Planning  
10/10 A2 Post Mortem Assignment 2 Due Sunday

Assignment 3 Available

 
10/13 A* Heuristics  
10/15 Dynamic Path Planning  
10/17 Networking Overview Milestone 3.1 Due Sunday  
10/20 Networking Overview  
10/22 Socket Programming  
10/24 Socket Programming Assignment 3 Due Sunday

Assignment 4 Available

 
10/27 A3 Post Mortem  
10/29 Particles and Flocking Behavior  
10/31 Level of Detail Milestone 4.1 Due Sunday  
11/3 Fast Shading  
11/5 Machine Learning in Games
Final Project Available 		 
11/7 Final Project Group Formation Assignment 4 Due Sunday  
11/10 Global Illumination Technical Document Due  
11/12 Building Tools  
11/14 Procedural Generation  
11/17 Guest Lecture  
11/19 Guest Lecture  
11/21 Guest Lecture Alpha Due  
11/24-11/29 Thanksgiving Holiday  
12/1 Class Presentations  
12/3 Class Presentations  
12/5 Class Presentations Final Project Trailer Due Sunday  
12/8 Award Ceremony Final Project Due  

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