Games programming teaching

From January 2006 to December 2007 I was a Games Programming lecturer within the Digital Entertainment Technology (DET) Diploma and also the Specialist Diploma in Games Development.

Classes I taught:

• IT1925 - DESOC: Digital Entertainment and Society (Oct2006 - Mar2007)
• DM2336 - PHS : Programming hardware shaders (Oct2007 - Feb2008)
• DM2240 - AGDEV : Advanced games development techniques (Oct2007 - Feb2008)
• DM2231 - GDEV : Games development techniques (Apr-Aug 2007)
• DM2212 - PPHY : Programming physics (Apr-Aug 2007)
• DM6121 - OMGPG: Online multiplayer games programming [specialist diploma] (Apr2007)
• DM6111 - GENGA: Games engine architecture [specialist diploma] (Jan-Feb 2007)

Second Life® at NYP

Because my research area has been collaborative virtual reality, one of my main focuses as a lecturer was work on 3D worlds for games education and development, with Second Life® as the platform. My SL avatar's name is Chica Digital.

Final year projects (FYPJ) using Second Life

12-week projects developed for industry clients. I was the technical supervisor for development teams consisting of senior design and programming students.

Latest projects (Sep-Nov 2007):

• Showcase island for a Singapore government body
• Interactive island for a private corporation
• Customization of the interface and 3D interaction of the open source viewer

Development blog (no longer updated) @ nypsecondlife.blogspot.com

Digital Entertainment and Society

A semester module taught once a year. I used Second Life for lectures and assignments, e.g. designing commercial games and their business models. Info at http://virtual-dio.com/nyp/it1925

Papers, articles, interviews (w/ maiden name = Dioselin Gonzalez)

• Second Life for Digital Entertainment Technology education (2007). Poster I presented in the 2nd Second Life Education Workshop at SLCC.
  [ Download: pdf (600 KB) | doc (4.5 MB)]   [ Full proceedings: pdf (5 MB) | doc (20 MB)]
   
• Poly grad joins US virtual world developer, giving up chance to do masters (2007): Lianhe Zaobao, a Singapore-based Chinese newspaper interviewed me and our alumna who got hired by Linden Lab.
  [ Download: pdf (585K) ]
   
• Virtual Communication episode on That's IT (2007). My students and I were interviewed for episode 6 of That's IT, a tv show from Channel News Asia.
  [ Can't upload video due to copyright issues ]
   
• Second Life: Game to play along (2007). As part of a 6-page feature about Second Life on Singapore's newspaper The Straits Times, Yuen-C Tham interviewed me and my students.
  [ Read on digital.asiaone.com ]
   
• Poly students turn "avatars" in Second Life (2006). Interview on The Strait Times about the Digital Entertainment and Society module.
  [ Download: jpg (424K) ]  [ Article reproduced at LionCityHomestay.com ]