Graphics and Mobile Gaming Education Kit
Now updated for the Unity Game Engine!
Teach your students the theory and practice of video game design, using the latest graphics and game design technologies on Arm Mali GPU-powered smart devices. The video game industry is growing rapidly, with a focus on high performance, low energy devices, and Arm Mali processors offer a cost efficient, high performance and low energy GPU.
Kit specification:
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A full set of lecture slides, ready for use in a typical 10-12-week undergraduate course (full syllabus below)
- Lab manual with project code and solutions. All software tools needed in this kit are available free of charge. Some labs work best on an Android-based Mali GPU-powered smart device.
- Prerequisites: Basic understanding of C++/Java programming
Course Aim
To enable students to create their own 3D games on mobile devices through the teaching of graphics and gaming fundamentals and hands-on practice using professional graphics API and game engines
Learning Outcomes
- Knowledge and understanding of
- Arm Mali GPU architecture
- Core OpenGL ES rendering techniques
- Game design methodology
- Game physics and logic programming
- The use of powerful graphical effects in 3D game design
- Intellectual
- Ability to use different graphics and game design techniques to optimize performance and reduce power consumption on mobile devices
- Ability to utilise multiple software design principles to manage future projects
- Practical
- Capability to create computer graphics on mobile devices using the Open GL ES library
- Capability to create 3D games from scratch using commercial game design engines
Syllabus
| 1 | Introduction to Graphics and Game Programming |
| 2 | GPU Architecture and Mali GPU |
| 3 | Introduction to OpenGL ES |
| 4 | Rendering Pipeline and Shader Programming |
| 5 | 3D Graphics and Matrix Manipulation |
| 6 | Texturing and Lighting |
| 7 | Performance Optimization and Programming Techniques |
| 8 | Introduction to Game Engines |
| 9 | Game Graphics and Audio |
| 10 | The Design of Video Games |
| 11 | 3D Effects, Architecture and Performance Considerations |
| 12 | Virtual Reality |
Recommended Online Course
Graphics and Mobile Gaming
- 12 Modules
- Over 3 hours of total video content including 18 lab videos
- 120 multiple choice questions to test comprehension