Michael Shah - Computer Science

Module 8 - Gameplay Systems | Scripting

Audio/Video Recording

Audio Recordings are posted after class within a youtube playlist. Occasionally technical errors happen, but I do my best to post recordings as soon as possible to a playlist.

The full course playlist is here: Course Youtube Playlist

Readings/Warmup (Do before class)

Game Engine Architecture Chapter 15 and 16
- (Introduction to Gameplay Systems and Runtime Gameplay Foundation Systems)
Game Programming Patterns Chapter 13
- (Type Object Pattern)
Pybind11 Github
- Main github repo
Pybind11 docs and tutorial
Embedding Python into a C++ Project
- (17 minutes)

[Test your knowledge on the readings] (This is not graded)

Slides (Available to follow along during class)

[Slides]

Commented Code Samples (if any)

For now I am linking code samples here: Github Code Repository for the course

In-Class Activity or Lab (Enabled toward the end of lecture -- due 1 week from release)

In-Class Activity link
- (This is graded, and only your first response is graded)
- This is an evaluation of what was learned in lecture.
(lab) Do a "git pull" from the monorepo

Additional Resources

Paper Prototyping your game
- (Why you should draft on paper the game you want to build)
Play, Game, world: Anatomy of a video game
- (Paper on common components of a game)
Ivan Smirnov - pybind11 - seamless operability between C++11 and Python
- Talk on how to use pybind
Extending Python With C Or C++ With Pybind11
- Helpful example

Module Content

Module Overview

In this module we learn about gameplay systems and scripting!

Module Outline

Lecture outline
- Static and Dynamic Game Worlds
- World Chunks
- Introduction to Game Objects
- Type Object Pattern
- Lua
- Pybind