Your Imagination will lead to Your Computer Science Education

Break into groups and sketch out a game that you want to create that you think would be the next best game.  Do a small write up and post it on my blog.

Flashman: http://www.miniclip.com/games/flashman/en/
Run Escape: http://www.miniclip.com/games/runescape/en/
Interactive Pet Buddy: http://arcade.klikgamers.co.uk/playgames/202/interactive-pet-buddy.html
Monopoly Here and Now: http://www.shockwave.com/2006/promo/monopoly/
Big Catch: http://miniclip.com/games/big-catch/en/
Gin Rummy: http://www.miniclip.com/games/gin-rummy/en/
Poop Adventure: http://arcade.klikgamers.co.uk/playgames/103/ploop-adventures.html
Gold Miner: http://www.jokefrog.com/games/gold-miner.shtml [...]

Games already taken:

Kingdom Hearts
Halo
Rainbow 6 Vegas
Ratchet & Clank
Call of Duty 2
Bio Shock
Zelda
Warcraft 3
Kingdom Hearts 2
Metroid Prim
Halo 2
Medieval II
Half Life 2

Second Life is full of life both virtually and real. People from all over the world escape to this virtual world to communicate for a variety of reasons, including, education, gaming, finding their one true love, preying on peoples’ innocents. Navigating yourself through the nonsense and irrelevant information, which is different for everyone, [...]

Ralph Baer, the original creator of Pong was short changed in the settlement with Atari, however, this was not the only battle he ever in sued and in comparisons it was less life threatening. If you look at the following video you will find out that he escaped Nazi Germany before the Holocaust, [...]

The ideas of games has always interested me and since my specialty in computer science is graphics it was a natural progression into game programming.  My favorite games are classics from my childhood: Centipede, Pacman, Ms. Pacman, and the original Atari home system.  While many of you may laugh at these, they were breakthrough technology [...]

The Games that People Play is a new Freshman Seminar offered in the Fall of 2007. What makes games so interesting? Why do so many people play them? What makes people want to create games? What is a good game? Find out in the Fall of 2007.