1. Game Engines Overview

Overview Module Overview Game Engine Links

2. Rendering Engine

Rendering Overview Graphics Libraries 2D Rendering 3D Rendering Techniques

3. Scene Graph

Introduction SG Contents SG Traversal SG APIs SG Benefits

4. Collision Detection

Introduction After or Before A Posteriori A Priori

5. Physics

Introduction Collision Response Soft-body Dynamics Other Components

Introduction

[Lecture Video]

Game Engines & Scripting

Scripting is writing very high level logic. In older game engines there was a distinction between the engine code, which created a tool and the scripting which was used to actually program things like “pushing this level opens that door.”

Scripting languages generally simpler and protected from making bugs lower down in the code, but also much slower and more limited then full programming languages like C/C++.

Modern high level languages however have broken that distinction. You can write a game engine in C#, for instance, or use it as a scripting language, or both. “Managed” languages like C# and Java really combine the best attributes of both kinds of coding and distinct scripting languages are really fading away in the game space.

Administrivia

Lectures

1. Game Engines Overview

2. Rendering Engine

3. Scene Graph

4. Collision Detection

5. Physics

6. Networking

7. Which Engine?

Assessment

Mid-Module Evaluation

Introduction

Game Engines & Scripting

Links