Game Programming Course - Creative Design and Development

• Main Authors: Jaak Henno, Hannu Jaakkola
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kassel University Press 2008-10-01
• Series: International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)
• Subjects: game; programming; virtual; worlds; structure; communication
• Online Access: http://online-journals.org/i-jet/article/view/646

Rapid developments of the Electronic Entertainment - computer and video games, virtual environments, the "Games 3.0" revolution - influences also courses about Games and Virtual Environments. In the following is discussed the course “Games and Virtual Environments” presented in the fall 2007 term in Tallinn University of Technology; the main emphasis of the course was not on programming technology, but on understanding games as a special form of communication and exploring specific features of this form.