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Content Overview

Course Duration: 8 Weeks

Week 1: Gaming and Human Senses

• Objective: Explore how game technology simulates and interacts with human senses.
• Examples of Senses in Gaming: Learn how controllers, VR headsets, and motion sensors mimic human senses to make games more immersive.
• Enhancing Immersion: Understand how sensory technologies like rumble feedback and motion tracking improve the gaming experience.
• Tech Behind Sensors: Explore the basic working of microphones, cameras, and haptic motors that power modern gaming devices.
• Hands-On Demo: Compare a simple sensor (light/motion) with a human sense, similar to Wii motion tracking.

Week 2: Action and Response in Games

• Objective: Understand the principles of responsive game systems and player feedback.
• Fast Response Systems: See how reflex-based games, racing wheels, and vibration feedback test quick player responses.
• Role of Actuators: Learn how motors and haptic devices provide feedback that makes gameplay feel realistic.
• Feedback Loops in Games: Discover how input, processing, and output form the foundation of responsive game systems.
• Hands-On Project: Build a sensor-based trigger (e.g., a fan or LED lights up when a hand waves).

Week 3: Perception, Logic, and Game AI

• Objective: Introduce fundamental concepts of artificial intelligence and logic in game characters.
• Classic Game AI Examples: Study AI behavior in classics like Pac-Man and FPS games to see how simple logic drives characters.
• Logic in Game AI: Learn how if-then rules and decision trees create believable non-player characters (NPCs).
• Intro to AI Tech: Get a glimpse of decision tree structures and how they guide AI decision-making in games.
• Hands-On Activity: Code a simple decision tree for a game character using p5.js.

Week 4: Hand Tracking in Games

• Objective: Examine how hand gestures are used as a form of game control.
• Hand Tracking Examples: Discover how Wii controllers, Kinect, and VR systems use hand gestures to control gameplay.
• Mapping Gestures to Actions: Learn how hand movements are translated into specific in-game interactions.
• MediaPipe and Pose-Tracking: Get an introduction to modern pose-tracking tools that power hand gesture recognition.
• Practical Activity: Train a simple body-tracking model with Google Teachable Machine.

Week 5: Eye Tracking in Gaming

• Objective: Learn about the emerging field of eye tracking and its applications in gaming.
• Eye Tracking in Games: Explore how games use gaze for aiming, camera movement, and immersive horror experiences.
• Gaze-Based Interaction: Learn how controlling games with your eyes creates new gameplay possibilities.
• Eye-Tracking Technology: Understand the basic working of eye trackers and how they capture gaze movement.
• Practical Activity: Try a web-based gaze recorder demo.

Week 6: AI and Speech Recognition

• Objective: Explore how AI enables voice-based interaction and commands in games.
• Voice in Games: See how games like Hey You, Pikachu! and VRChat use speech for interaction.
• Voice Commands in Gaming: Learn how speech recognition enables control and communication in games.
• AI Speech Technology: Understand how AI handles accents, tone, and natural language to improve recognition.
• Hands-On Demo: Use Google Teachable Machine to try audio-based recognition.

Week 7: Extended Reality (XR)

• Objective: Get an introduction to the different forms of extended reality (VR, AR, MR) and their applications.
• VR in Gaming: Experience how VR games like Beat Saber and Half-Life: Alyx create full immersion.
• AR and MR in Gaming: Learn how Pokémon GO and HoloLens use AR/MR to add digital layers to the real world.
• XR Hardware and Software: Explore the basic principles of VR headsets, AR glasses, and MR platforms.
• Practical Activity: Try an AR app or AR filter and review the experience.

Week 8: Final Project

• Objective: Apply learned concepts to build a final project demonstrating a key game technology integration.
• Project 1: Build a voice-to-command action with p5.js (e.g., say “jump” to trigger an action).
• Project 2: Build a hand gesture-controlled bulb with p5.js (gesture turns bulb on/off).

Live Sessions: Weekly live interactive sessions on Saturdays

Course Eligibity

Students from partnered schools in any stream of Class X, XI and XII

Assessment Layout

Assignments: The course includes the release of 4 bi-weekly online assignments (every alternate week). Students need to attempt at least 3 of these assignments and must achieve a minimum score of 40 marks in each to be eligible for the certificate.

Take-Home Project: An optional project consisting of questions that cover all the topics from the theory videos, accompanied by a small project report.

Final Exam: An optional online final exam designed to assess the knowledge gained throughout the course, which can only be attempted after completing and submitting the required assignments and the take-home project.