CISC 877 Final Presentation

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This page describes the final presentation and report for CISC 877.

Report

This report will pull together the details of what you have accomplished over the term. It may draw material from your earlier reports. Your report should have the following structure:

• Introduction. Briefly describe the interesting technological challenge that you are solving, the solution you have adopted, and the game that you are developing to illustrate the use of your solution.
• Interesting technological challenge. Describe in detail the technological problem that you are addressing and describe your approach to solving this problem. Include references to existing solutions to this problem.
• Game description. Describe the game from a player's perspective and how it illustrates your technology.
• Evaluation. Describe how you will demonstrate that your solution actually makes progress toward solving the problem. This may include experiments with players, performance experiments, or other techniques appropriate to the problem you are addressing.
• Implementation design. Describe the architecture of your game, and the tools and languages being used to implement it. List and describe any third party tools you are using.
• Summary of changes. Enumerate what changed in your solution and game since the last report, and explain why the changes were made.
• Lessons learned. What went well? What was difficult? Are there things you would do differently next time?

Your report should be 15-20 pages (1" margin, 11 pt, 1.5 line spacing).

Presentation

Create a poster that you can use to describe your work. We will also do live demos.

Your poster should discuss:

• What are the gameplay objectives of your project?
• How did you implement your project?
• What is the interesting technological challenge that your project showcases?

Remember that your poster should be comprehensible by people who are not familiar with this project.

Group Statement

Along with your report, provide a brief (1 paragraph) statement of who did what towards the project.

Optionally, you may provide a mark adjustment in your group statement, allowing you to reward member(s) of your group who contributed significantly more to the project than others. E.g., a group consisting of Alice, Bob and Cleo might give a mark adjustment of +3, -2, -1 to each of the three members. If the project received a grade of 85, the assigned grades would then be Alice: 88, Bob: 83, Cleo: 84. If no mark adjustment is provided, all group members will receive the same grade. In cases where groups cannot agree on a mark adjustment, no adjustment will be applied.

The group statement should be signed by all group members to indicate their agreement with its contents.