Assignment

1. Asteroids Experiment [10%]

Searching a design space

Individual assignment

Criteria

• Decide on parameters and possible values (50%)
• Create fitness function (50%)

Deliverables

• Description of parameters used in search
• Description of fitness function used in search
• Final parameters found by search
• Code project with the modifications

Submission

2. Game Design Hack [40%]

A good game that fits together

Criteria

• A working game created using the framework (50%)
• Game has a reasonable spread of parameters (25%)
• Description of parameters and their effects (25%)

Deliverables

• Working game and brief description of how it works
• List parameters that could be used for modification and effects

Submission

3. Player Experience Experiments [50%]

In groups, take a game developed as part of the game design hack and use AI experiments to determine two experiments for human player testing. Perform play testing on these variants recording relevent results and give a presentation with these findings.