What’s included?
This is the repo for an individual Browser-Based Game Project. It includes:
- Browser-Based Game Project Journey
- Browser-Based Game Project Requirements
- Browser-Based Game Project Recommended Games
- Browser-Based Game Project Details
- Browser-Based Game Project Deliverables [students submit links to project planning materials, a front-end and back-end GitHub repo, and a deployed app throughout project week. This can be customized - see the Customizing deliverables section]
- Browser-Based Game Project Feedback [in Canvas only]
Customizing your project week
Customize your project week by adding to the existing project documentation. Existing content should not be changed, but you may remove it if there are direct conflicts with your customizations. Ensure you’re still providing students with enough background information to succeed during project week if you do this.
You should not add, remove, or alter any project requirements.
The Browser-Based Game Project Details page provides some basic background information for the project. Sensible defaults are provided here, but you may want to add some details on top of what this document provides to match how you’d like to structure your project week for your students.
Some existing items already covered in this document that you may want to expand on include:
- Some helpful tips to get started.
- Details on how you will provide project assistance
- Level Up ideas for students after they have completed their projects.
- Presentation details such as the time allotted for presentations and suggested topics for students to cover during their presentations.
You may also want to make additions, such as:
- Examples of suitable planning materials.
- Examples of previous student projects.
- Schedule considerations such as any bonus lectures or stand-ups.
You will likely want to replace the existing Recommended Games document, it’s a suitable starting point, but you’ll want to make changes to this based on what your team will be comfortable providing support for during a project week.
You may also want to make changes to the planning materials students submit and the app they use to build them. For this project, students will build their planning materials using Canvas by default. If you’d prefer something different, you’ll need to create new Project Planning Deliverable documents.
When making additions, avoid overwhelming students with irrelevant or unhelpful details. These documents are already dense for learners, so try not to go overboard by adding too much information.
Customizing deliverables
Some instructors may want to split the project deliverable into multiple parts to give each item its own due date or to ease data collection. Individual/coupled deliverable pages exist in this content and do not need to be created. These can be found at:
Individual:
- Project Planning Deliverable
- Project GitHub Repo Link Deliverable
- Project Deployed App Link Deliverable
Coupled:
- Project Planning and GitHub Repo Link Deliverable
- Project GitHub Repo and Deployed App Links Deliverable
Notes for maintainers
Edits to project requirements are complex and should be made thoughtfully. When requirements change, alterations need to be made uniformly to the following documents/resources:
- Project Requirements Google Sheets.
- Project Requirements PDF (built from the Project Requirements document in Google Sheets).
- Project Requirements document served in GitHub Pages.
- All Browser-Based Game Project rubrics in Canvas.
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