1. Super Ball Guy
Ken Nelson

2. Super Ball Guy... Wasn’t he on Leno?
2D side-scrolling platformer similar to Super Mario Bros.
Based off of GameForge V1.0 engine.
Uses DirectX 7.0 or higher.
Pentium II 300+, 64+ meg RAM, 8+ meg video card.

3. Cover your right eye and read the bottom line.
Reliability
Portability
Usability
Efficiency
Learnability

4. I remember when a loaf of bread cost a nickel.
LOC Estimate:
Actual LOC for Enhancements: 800
Time Estimate: 5.5 Weeks
Actual Time: 4.5 Weeks

5. Why, oh why didn't I take the blue pill?
Entertainment!
Money
Personal Edification

6. Remember to eat your Wheaties.
A sprite is any object you see in a 2D game.
Sprites can move, stay still, blow up, change colors, grow in size, etc.
Mario, the ground, coins, question boxes, and enemies are all sprites.

7. New and Improved Engine! (as seen on TV)
Repeating Textures
Parallax Scrolling
Directional Passthrough
Development time reduced significantly

8. Ouch! Collisions Hurt. (pun intended)
Collision Detection takes O(n2) to complete.
The more sprites in a level, the slower it runs.
Easiest way to make a game run smoother, lower the overall sprite count.

9. Pete and Repeat are sitting on a log...

10. Side-effects include nausea, internal bleeding, dizziness...
Positive!:
Less Sprites to place on a level means shorter development time.
Lower sprite count means less RAM.
Smaller image files can be used for the same effect.
Negative:
Drawing algorithm slower.

11. I’ll take Parallax Scrolling for $200 Alex.
Scrolls background imagery at different rates.
Scenery ‘furthest away’ scrolls the slowest.
Gives the illusion of depth to a 2D game.

12. Non-parallax scrolling
Could you repeat that?
Non-parallax scrolling
Parallax scrolling

13. Dogs Bark Loudly
Sprites can pass through other sprites in one direction but not in others.
Used to let the player ‘climb’ mountains.
Gives a feeling of depth.
Allows for more flexible level design.
Gameplay is more flexible.

14. Remember to memorize pages 39 to 110 for tomorrow's lesson.
Totally Solid Sprites
Directional Passthrough

15. There’s nothing funny about a Paper Prototype.

16. And here’s a boring chart.

17. Actually no, I wasn’t getting lazy.

18. Insert Game Demo Here

19. Kirk to Enterprise...
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