On the other hand, there is little or no guidance as to what you should do with this newly obtained knowledge - you are left to your own devices. For me, this was the perfect study arrangement. Perhaps in future we will see GI offer courses on game design, or advanced type of courses which focus on building a particular type of game.
Currently though, its stuff by coders and for coders not that this is a bad thing. You shouldn't expect to be guided through the entire process of making a complete game. An online lecture screen.
A speech snippet is playing. Well, I found that the courses make use of both DirectX and OpenGL, it seems to be a choice made by the course instructors when they prepare the material. In the courses I took, every attempt was made to have the theory portion as API-independent as possible. So if you only know a single API or have "issues" with its counterpart, you can usually still get a lot of good from a course.
Of course, this will involve some extra work related to the sample code. The material can be fast-paced sometimes. If you want to take a course on landscape rendering for instance, its a good idea to make sure you are comfortable with a graphics API , as well as having some previous knowledge of the landscape subject area.
Similarly, in the introductory OpenGL and DirectX courses you are expected to be familiar with the requisite mathematics and not faint the first time you see a naked matrix. The different courses vary in technical level, but overall, I would rate the difficulty of the courses as medium - they focus on getting you to the level of knowledge necessary to do serious practical work within a subject area. To see for yourself, go to this page and check out the course contents for the subjects that interest you.
I took 3 courses at GI so far. So here it is for each of the 3 courses that I've done recently. Ferrier is a professional game developer working in Scotland. His course is about the practical aspects of engine development which involve OpenGL. I personally found that this was a great course, even though I am somewhat experienced with OpenGL already. The instructor has a distinctive no-nonsense style which carries over into all the course material, which I thought was top-notch in terms of clarity and relevance I think for game programming, this course easily beats the Red Book.
For example, the abilities of modern 3D hardware are a constant consideration in all theoretic presentations, and Alex's code emphasizes thinking about the future when programming with OpenGL. I recommend this course to people with experience in graphics but not OpenGL, or people who would like to modernize their knowledge of the API and explore some cool rendering code directly relevant to today's games. This means a lot of time is spent looking into a few different kinds of CLOD algorithms which power most of the current landscape engines.
Every algorithm is presented with reference to the research papers where it has originated, and feature comparisons are drawn. Different types of implementations are also considered where appropriate. At the end of the first part of the course, a hybrid algorithm is presented, which attempts to combine the advantages of all the previous approaches, for game rendering purposes. In parallel with this, material on view metrics, height map generation and so on is presented.
Its a pretty material heavy course, you should probably only attempt it if you have a grasp of the basic ideas in the area read: you already wrote a couple of simple landscape demos before. In this course, I found that the multimedia presentations were often not enough to give you a full understanding of the material, and sadly neither were the PDFs.
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When you begin the game, your lowly indent—who you create yourself from a fairly limited selection of faces, haircuts, and tattoos—is working a job in the Deepstink, the lowest part of the city. This grim industrial abyss is dark, claustrophobic, and crawling with bitey creatures called Ferals. But as you make a name for yourself, working as a mercenary for an influential crime boss, you find yourself rising to the top—quite literally.
The story takes you from the stinking depths of the Arcology to increasingly higher, more opulent levels, all of which have a very different aesthetic and vibe. This is fundamentally a game about shooting lots of people dead, including gangsters, corporate soldiers, augmented aliens, and hulking mechs. But there are some quiet moments too. In crowded social hubs you can shop, talk to NPCs, and pick up sidequests without fear of being attacked. A setting this rich would be a perfect fit for a game in the style of classic Fallout, with deep quests and dialogue.
But these safe zone visits, as evocative as they are, are ultimately just a brief pit stop before the action ramps up again. I also had issues with sudden, sharp difficulty spikes, some of which forced me to break off from the story and grind sidequests to level up. I wouldn't mind this if the sidequests were consistently good, but I found them pretty hit and miss.
Some, like the one involving a soft drinks company conducting sinister experiments on citizens addicted to their product, keep you hooked with a good story. But others feel a little like busywork, with a lot of walking long distances between districts to perform fairly mundane tasks.
The ability to call a taxi or jump on the metro to move between different parts of the Arcology does take some of the sting out of this, but there's still a fair amount of backtracking—with respawning enemies—which can be quite gruelling. But whenever The Ascent does something to disappoint me, the world always wins me back. From the lavish Golden Satori casino to the bleak, dilapidated Black Lake slums, this is a masterclass in creating a sense of place and establishing an atmosphere.
Just be aware that, even though the screenshots might make it look like it's a CRPG similar to something like Shadowrun, it's a fast-paced, challenging, almost arcade-like shooter above all. A city this well-realised perhaps deserves more than that, and I'd love future games to expand on the role-playing aspect.
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