The aim of this module is to give learners a theoretical grounding in the fundamentals of scripted, interactive multimedia while also giving learners practical experience and skills in designing and implementing interactive multimedia systems (such as 2- and 3-dimensional computer games).
Fundamentals of interactive multimedia systems and scripting
Components of interactive multimedia applications: scenes, objects, images, text, interface objects/ Associating scripts with multimedia objects as scripted components/ GameManagers, virtual world 'sensor' objects and other common interactive multimedia software architectures
Scripting for interactive multimedia
Classes / runtime object instances / runtime assignment of object references via code and IDE / frame related events / collision related events
Transforming multimedia object properties
using 2- and 3- element vectors for position, rotation, scaling transformations on 2D and 3D objects
Collision detection
- 2D collision detection with bounding boxes and circlces- 3D collision detection with bounding rectangular and spherical polyhedrons
Velocity vectors and simulated physics
Application of physics concepts to real-time multimedia systems (speed, velocity, acceleration)/ Modelling motion of sprites with forces with vectors for simulated gravity and collisions
Data-driven and communication-driven multimedia systems
Advantages of externalised data/ Shared local data while application is running (such as static properties, and system local data)/ Long term client-server data store strategies (such as HTTP communication with PHP/DB system)/ Strategies for representing virtual worlds (text-file/array-based maps; tile-based worlds)
Time and timers
Different representations of time for frame-based system/ current system time/ time since scene started running/ countdown and countup timers
Interfaces and UI elements - (Graphical) User Interfaces
Model data types: boolean, enumerated, continuous, string, custom object class/ Text and graphical strategies for presenting Model data to the user in the 'View' (nuber of lives left, numeric seconds left, progress bars, lives icons, graphical inventory icons etc.)
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| Assessment Breakdown | % |
| Other Assessment(s) | 100 |