ADVANCED COMPUTER APPLICATIONS/GAME DESIGN

COURSE SYLLABUS

Semester 1	Semester 2
Week 1 (September 1-5)	Week 20 (January 26-30)
Week 2 (September 8-12)	Week 21 (February 2-6)
Week 3 (September 15-19)	Week 22 (February 9-13)
Week 4 (September 22-26)	Week 23 (February 16-20)
Week 5 (September 29-October 3)	Week 24 (February 23-27)
Week 6 (October 6-10)	Week 25 (March 2-6)
Week 7 (October 13-17)	Week 26 (March 9-13)
Week 8 (October 20-24)	Week 27 (March 16-20)
Week 9 (October 27-31)	Week 28 (March 30-April 3)
Week 10 (November 3-7)	Week 29 (April 6-10)
Week 11 (November 10-14)	Week 30 (April 13-17)
Week 12 (November 17-21)	Week 31 (April 20-24)
Week 13 (November 24-28)	Week 32 (April 27-May 1)
Week 14 (December 1-5)	Week 33 (May 4-8)
Week 15 (December 8-12)	Week 34 (May 11-15)
Week 16 (December 15-19)	Week 35 (May 18-22)
Week 17 (January 5-9)	Week 36 (May 25-29)
Week 18 (January 12-16)	Week 37 (June 1-5)
Week 19 (January 19-23)	Week 38 (June 8-12)

Summer Vacation!

ACADEMIC SCHEDULE

First Quarter

Week 1 (September 1-5)
Monday---Holiday-No School
Tuesday---Welcome back Freshman and New Students!
Wednesday---Welcome back everyone!!
*go over handbook
*class syllabus, rules and regulations
*get signed onto computers.
Thursday---
Review-Microsoft PowerPoint--
*Create a 10-slide show of 5 different "extreme sports" you're interested in.
*First slide should have a description of the sport with 4 bullets
*Next slide should have 4 famous places to do this "sport" (picture of each).
*slides should be fully animated.
*slides should have sounds appropriate to presentation.
*show should look professional.
*transitions.
Friday---Microtype Lessons 2,3

Week 2 (September 8-12)
Monday---Columbian Time---PowerPoint
Tuesday---PowerPoint
Wednesday---Present PowerPoints
graded as follows:

pictures	20 points
transitions between slides	5 points
animation	20 points
facts	30 points
complete and coherent	15 points
appropriate sounds	10 points

Thursday---Present PowerPoints
Friday---Our next review deals with Microsoft Publisher
I want you to pick one of your extreme sports from your PowerPoint presentation and put together a 3-fold brochure:
1. on the front panel have you name and motto.
2. on the back panel have your name, logo, address, phone, website, e-mail. (make them up)
3. on each of the three inside panels, you should have information on 3 locations for each of your sites to do that "sport".
4. each inside panel should have pictures, prices, descriptions, dates, and be each should be arranged in at least slightly different manner.
5. final page (inside front) should have a funny story of your business and how/why it got started.

Week 3 (September 15-19)
Monday---Open House (7:00 pm)---Create a Publisher Brochure about your "business"
*It should have pictures and origional text/headlines.
Tuesday---Grade Publisher Brochure
Wednesday---Excel review using cis
User Name=rainier
Password=rhs
1. pick an occupation that is mainstream enough to be offered at multiple colleges
2. find 10 colleges from 10 different states offering that major (through programs of study)
3. put necessary information into the excel spreadsheet we're creating
*I'll provide the necessary template
Thursday---Work on excel spreadsheet
Friday---Graphing in excel.
*create "my planning portfolio" in CIS.
*do scholarship sort and find 5 scholarships to apply for (earlier the better).
*let me know which 5 you find.

Week 4 (September 22-26)
Monday---Columbian Time---Alice Tutorial part 1
Tuesday---Alice Tutorial part 2
Wednesday---Alice Tutorial part 3
Thursday---Alice Tutorial part 4
Friday---Combine Tutorials in small project

Week 5 (September 29-October 3)
Monday---Alice
Tuesday---Alice
Wednesday---Late Start---Alice
Thursday---Alice final assignment (2 days) This is your final and is worth 100 points. Make it impressive!
*create a world pulling in everything we've learned.
*you should have at least 10 objects.
*it should tell a story.
*you should be able to control main character with keys.
GOOD LUCK!
Friday---Progress Report 1---

Week 6 (October 6-10)
Monday---Inservice-No School
Tuesday---Introduction to Game Design 7 (creat "catch a clown")
Wednesday---Homecoming Court Voting---Begin "dragon" game
Thursday---Homecoming Court Tapping---create basic pong game with sounds
Friday---State Inservice-No School

Week 7 (October 13-17)
Monday---Demonstration of pong came creation
Tuesday---Add music, backgrounds, and sounds to Pong game and grade
Wednesday---PSAT (8-11:00 am)---Add second player to Pong
Thursday---Maze creation
Friday---Pep Assembly---Finish Maze (PDF file provided)

Week 8 (October 20-24)
Monday---Columbian Time---Finish dragon game
Tuesday---Add a more difficult level (room) to your Maze (include something for points)
*include monsters going back and forth/up and down that will destroy the princess
Wednesday---Finish maze (extra credit for more than 2 levels)
Thursday---Kayla teaches next project (space flight) to class using pc viewer
Friday---Continue work on space flight with Kayla on my computer as teacher

Week 9 (October 27-31)
Monday---College Visitation (1-3pm)---Grade/finish Mazes
Tuesday---Canned Food Drive Assembly---Grade/finish Galactic Mail
Wednesday---Video-History of Gaming
Thursday---Video-History of Gaming
Friday---Student of the Month---Create Brick Breaker Game
*must have sounds
*must have background music
*must have multiple layers of bricks
*must keep score

Week 10 (November 3-7)
Monday---brick breaker game level 2
Tuesday---brick breaker game level 3
Wednesday---Late Start---Add sounds/backgrounds to game
Thursday---End of First Quarter---
Grade brick breaker game as final according to following (100 points total):
1. Page 1 25 points
2. Page 2 25 points
3. Page 3 25 points
4. Sounds/backgrounds/overall "hipness" 25 points
Friday---No School-Grade Day

Week 11 (November 10-14)
Monday---Veteran's Assembly
Begin working on a pinball game in Game Maker.
Begin by finding 5-10 game components for the ball to bounce off.
A different sound should be made when the ball hits each object.
Tuesday---No School-Veteran's Day
Wednesday---Pinball
Thursday---Pinball
Friday---Pinball

Week 12 (November 17-21)
Monday---Pinball
Tuesday---Pinball
Wednesday---Grade Pinball
Thursday---Grade Pinball
Friday---Create a flyer in Publisher promoting whichever game you've created so far
*include original, clever name
*a picture or two
*a paragraph descibing your game and it's unique features
*through some wordart in
*put an original cachphrase
*create and insert origional logo
*website for more information

Week 13 (November 24-28)
Monday---Columbian Time---finish and grade flyer/catch up day
Tuesday---Student of the Month, Parent teacher conferences (4-8:00 pm)
*guest speaker Michael Trybom on post-high school opportunities
Wednesday---No School-Morning Conferences (8:30am-12:00pm)
Thursday---Thanksgiving Weekend (no school)
Friday---Thanksgiving Weekend (no school)

Week 14 (December 1-5)
Monday---Create Space Invaders
*3 levels
*explosion when the enemy hits the missile
*both explode when the enemy hits the gunner
*levels get successively harder with different enemy "deployments"
*in the 3rd level, enemy ships are randomly firing at gunner
*sound when missile hits ship
*different sound when gunner launches missiles
*game over when enemy gets by gunner
*game over when enemy hits gunner
*game keeps score
*game has a high score feature
*custom "spacey" background
Tuesday---Space Invaders
Wednesday---Late Start---Space Invaders
Thursday---Space Invaders
Friday---Space Invaders

Week 15 (December 8-12)
Monday---Columbian Time---Grade Space Invaders
Tuesday---Finish grading space invaders
Begin work on promotion competition
Wednesday---Logo and Flyer Design
Thursday---Logo and Flyer Design
Friday---Progress Report 2---Sketch Radio Ad

Week 16 (December 15-19)
Monday---(Late Start) Finalize radio script
Tuesday---(Late Start) Record radio ad
Wednesday---Snow Day
Thursday---Snow Day
Friday---Snow Day

Week 17 (January 5-9)
Monday---Welcome Back Assembly!---Make sure everything turned in for competition
Tuesday---RPG introduction
Wednesday---map design create a map of a town according to directions
Thursday---Grade town design (25 points) and create ship (25 points) in alternate world
Friday---teleporting between land and ship and placing events at specific locations

Week 18 (January 12-16)
Monday---Senior Ball Court Voting---
Tuesday---Work on RPG
Wednesday---Work on RPG
Thursday---Create game in Sploder you must set up an account and remember password
Friday---Senior Ball king/queen voting---
Today begins the final stage of the course.
You will choose either RPG Maker or Game Maker 7 and create a game that will act as your final. Another choice is to create a 15-20 slide PPT on Video Game Development.
This will be due this Friday, the 16th of January.
The game (or PowerPoint) will be worth 200 points, plus 40 points participation for the 4 remaining days.
You will be given 10 points a day for participation. If I see you on any other game than your own (or on your PowerPoint) at any time, you'll receive a 0 for the day.
In Game Maker 7, the idea must be unique and you need to have a minumum of 4 levels (50 points each).
In RPG Maker, you should have a minumum of 4 worlds and each should be unique, yet tied together by the theme of your game.
*You should be able to seemlessly transport between worlds, have battles, and multiple characters.
In PowerPoint, You must include early games (and important names), different generations of games, major players (companies),
best-selling games, hand-held games, and web-based games.
*you should have 15-25 slides, 25 for and "A" and 15 for a "C".
Whichever platform you choose, your game should show off what you've learned and your incredible imagination.

Week 19 (January 19-23)
Monday---MLK Holiday-No School
Tuesday---Work on project (10 points participation)
Wednesday---Work on project (10 points participation)
Thursday---Semester 1 Grades Due! Show Project (10 points participation)
Friday---Grade Day-No School

END OF SEMESTER

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