Jump to Spring 2021
Prerequisite; CTK 352, CTK 353 and CTK 354,
This course will explore fundamentals and methods in User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI), with a focus towards gaming. Students will be introduced to terminology and common trends of interface design for games. The class will explore how design influences a user’s perception, behavior and overall experience of a game. We will analyze and discuss best practices in existing games, explore what the future of interface design can look like and through iteration and prototyping create a design interface for a genre of their choice.
For graduate students only
Jump to Fall 2021.
Using pre-existing stems from Weathervane recording sessions to practice mixing and mastering techniques on multi-track recordings. Students taking this course will need to pay an $80 membership fee to join Weathervane Music to become a 'premix member' http://weathervanemusic.org/membership. This membership will provide you with all the hi-res tracks/stems to use throughout the semester.
Prerequisites: CTK 340 or Consent of Instructor.
Course focused on introductory concepts in Unity, with a focus on the visual and auditory components of the Unity Engine. Several small, focused projects will be done throughout the semester, with a final project focused on mobile virtual reality for the Oculus Quest.
No prior experience in Unity is required.
For graduate students only
This course will explore fundamentals and methods in User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI), with a focus towards gaming. Students will be introduced to terminology and common trends of interface design for games. The class will explore how design influences a user’s perception, behavior and overall experience of a game. We will analyze and discuss best practices in existing games, explore what the future of interface design can look like and through iteration and prototyping create a design interface for a genre of their choice.
This course will focus on advanced web implementations and concepts.
Some of the topics to be covered will be AJAX/Javascript, Content Management Systems, Accessibility, User Interface Design, Database Driven Web Sites, CSS3/HTML5, and Search Engine Optimization.
Prerequisite; CTK 301