Schedule

Updated 02/27/2015

Week	Date	Topic	Due
1	1-5	Course introduction
	1-7	Game AI introduction; movement and path planning
	1-9	Path planning: navigation meshes
2	1-12	Path planning: navigation meshes
	1-14	Path planning: search
	1-16	Path planning: search	Homework 1 due 1/18 at 11:55pm
3	1-19	Holiday
	1-21	Path planning: search
	1-23	Path planning: search
4	1-26	Board game AI
	1-28	Board game AI
	1-30	Path planning: search	Homework 2 due 2/1 at 11:55pm
5	2-2	Path planning: search
	2-4	Path planning: movement, flocking, formations
	2-6	No class
6	2-9	Path planning: movement, flocking, formations
	2-11	Decision making: FSMs, behavior trees	Homework 3 due 2/11 at 11:55pm
	2-13	Decision making: FSMs, behavior trees
7	2-16	Decision making: FSMs, behavior trees
	2-18	Decision making: rule systems	Homework 4 due 2/18 at 11:55pm
	2-20	Decision making: planning
8	2-23	Decision making: planning
	2-25	Snow day
	2-27	Decision making: planning
9	3-2	Decision making: planning Procedural content generation: optimization techniques
	3-4	Procedural content generation: optimization techniques	Homework 5 due 3/4 at 11:55pm
	3-6	Procedural content generation: level and map generation
10	3-9	Procedural content generation: level and map generation
	3-11	Procedural content generation: quest/mission generation
	3-13	Procedural content generation: player modeling
11	3-16	Spring break
	3-18	Spring break
	3-20	Spring break	Homework 6 due 3/22 at 11:55pm
12	3-23	Procedural content generation: player modeling
	3-25	Procedural content generation: player modeling
	3-27	Machine learning: decision trees	Homework 7 due 3/29 at 11:55pm
13	3-30	Machine learning: neural nets
	4-1	Believable characters
	4-3	Believable characters
14	4-6	Believable characters
	4-8	Believable characters
	4-10	Believable characters
15	4-13	Camera control
	4-15	Camera control
	4-17	Camera control
16	4-20	Game analytics
	4-22	Game analytics
	4-24	Game analytics
Exam week	4-29	Game demos	Final project due 4/28 at 11:55pm