COMI 2040        BEGINNING GAME PROGRAMMING

Beginning Game Programming is a course designed to teach beginning programming concepts. It will use Flash as the tool to create the games. Within Flash there are design and programming components needed to develop 2D games. The programming component is Action Script which supports modern programming structures.

Although a pre-requisite is not required for the class, some knowledge of programming will be helpful. Knowledge of Flash is not required. Also, game programming involves math and you will be introduced to some beginning trigonometry.

In this course you will create simple adventure games and evolve to 2D games which involve movement and collision. You will also become familiar with Flash which is one of the better tools to create web pages. You will become knowledgeable of programming structures which can be applied to any programming language.