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REU Welcome, Rules, and Tutorials. Amanda Chaffin wulfkub@gmail.com. Who we are. Amanda Chaffin Ph. D. student. Evie Powell Ph. D. student CSDTs Game Design and Dev Social and Ubiquitous Computing. Mike Eagle Ph. D. student - Serious Games Game Design and Dev Statistical Analysis.
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REU Welcome, Rules, and Tutorials Amanda Chaffin wulfkub@gmail.com
Who we are Amanda Chaffin Ph. D. student Evie Powell Ph. D. student • CSDTs • Game Design and Dev • Social and Ubiquitous Computing Mike Eagle Ph. D. student -Serious Games • Game Design and Dev • Statistical Analysis Drew Hicks Ph. D. student • Serious Games • Game Design and Dev • Social Networking Games - Game Design and Dev - Game AI and Physics - Collaborative Visualizations Tools - Educational Games • - Advanced Learning • Technologies, EDM, AI, BPC • - Game Design and Dev Behrooz MostafaviPh. D. student • Game Design and Dev • EDM • Visualization Tools Acey Boyce Ph. D. student • Game Design and Dev • BPC • CSDTs Matt Johnson Ph. D. student • Game Design and Dev • Collaborative Visualization Tools • EDM Dr. Tiffany Barnes Assistant Professor Ph. D. (NC State)
Projects • Grad mentors: Evie Powell • REU team: Thomas Phifer and Meena Seralathan • Games: Snag'em, a game to promote social networking, and SUPA2 – a pervasive audio game • Grad mentors: Drew Hicks and Acey Boyce • REU team: Antoine Campbell, Shaun Pickford, and Dustin Culler • Games: Virtual Bead Loom Game, Community Site for CSDTs, Dance Tool • Grad mentors: Drew Hicks and Andrea Nickel • REU team: Veronica Catete and Joshua Situka • Game: Bots: a game to teach backtracking and debugging • Grad mentors: Matt Johnson and Behrooz Mostafavi • REU team: Gloria Szilasi • Tool: EDM Vis tool • Grad mentors: Amanda Chaffin, Hunter Hale, and Acey Boyce • REU team: Whoever wants to join! • Game: Left4Dead map of UNC Charlotte (tons of alarmed cars and escalation events)
Rules of the Lab • Quiet hours are from 9 - 6:30 weekdays • Any working student has veto power over game playing • Use headphones • Full access internet – don’t abuse it • No meeting in lab, keep sidebar meeting short and QUIET! • Clean up after yourself…none of us got this far to be your maid service
General Rules • 40 hour work week • Lab/REU meeting attendance mandatory • If late, extra work hours • Demos • Lunch… • Time off/being late/rearranging schedules • Professionalism/dress code
Useful Websites • http://scholar.google.com • http://docs.google.com • http://library.uncc.edu/ - login from home • http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation • http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SDK_Docs
Powerpoint Presentations • Picture worth 1000 words so max 40 words per slide (that is high!) • No more than 5 minutes • No more than 5 slides • Each slide must have – • Game2Learn logo • Name, advisor’s name, Dr. Barnes and emails • (Optional) Page count (not for short) • Respect Copywrite and Trademarks
Extra Sessions • If you need more help with programming, research, writing, reviewing, etc… • Email me (wulfkub@gmail.com) with your specific need • I will be happy to help solve the issues • If you have personal issues…
Questions? Amanda Chaffin wulfkub@gmail.com Now, onto the SVN tutorial!