Game Graphics Course

Video Game Graphics course for Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences, 2023

This repository contains a webpage, which should be checked out and deployed on your local computer. Follow Setup Instructions to get access to course materials, slides, code demos and home assignments.

Setup Instructions

1. Register a GitHub account https://github.com/join
   This is a code cloud storage
   Choose any nickname, but please use your real name as profile name, so I know who you are 😁

2. Install tools

   • Install GitHub desktop https://desktop.github.com
     Git is a Version Control System - will be used to "download" and "upload" materials and examples

   • Install VSCode https://code.visualstudio.com/Download
     This is IDE (Integrated Development Environment) - basically just an advanced text editor, we will use it to write code

   • Install NodeJS https://nodejs.org/en/download
     We will use this to get code dependencies

3. Launch GitHub Desktop and clone this code repository to your computer (File -> Clone Repository -> URL)
   https://github.com/taphos/game-graphics-course-2023

4. Open cloned repo in VSCode (GitHub Desktop -> Repository -> Open in VSCode)

5. Open terminal to run commands (VSCode menu Terminal -> New Terminal)

6. Get code dependencies, Terminal: npm install

7. Start the course web site, Terminal: npm run serve

8. Open link in Chrome http://localhost:8080

Home Assignments

1. Before start, make sure you successfully completed all steps of Setup Instructions above
2. (Skip first time) Merge the latest changes into your forked repository, using GitHub Desktop
   1. Fetch Origin
   2. Branch -> Merge into current -> upstream/main
   3. Push origin
3. Make required changes, depending on the assignment, using VSCode
4. In GitHub Desktop, verify changed files
5. Write a meaningful summary message
6. (First time only) You will be offered to fork repository, agree and create a fork
7. Commit to main branch of the fork
8. Press "Push origin" to push changes to GitHub server