Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, focusing on the instruction and research of technical arts and applied sciences.
This course completes our survey of Perlenspiel’s API with a look at two of the engine’s most powerful and versatile subsystems: grid planes and sprites. Other topics include procedural color generation and the use of custom image files for designing and implementing multi-function game maps, concluding with a discussion of two issues of critical importance to game designers: titles and endings.
This hands-on course continues the exploration of Perlenspiel’s application programming interface (API) begun in the previous course. A wide assortment of commands for controlling the appearance and behavior of beads, the grid and the status line are presented and demonstrated, together with the subsystems supporting animation, faders, images and pathfinding.
Software engineering and asset production are the means of digital game development, but the end is an intentional experience. Digital game design is the process of creating, implementing and iteratively refining that experience.This hands-on course will demonstrate the practice of digital game design and development using Perlenspiel, a cloud-based, abstract microgame engine programmed in JavaScript. Lectures and code demos will familiarize you with Perlenspiel’s event-driven architecture and key aspects of its application programming interface (API).