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Exploring Computer Science Concepts with a Ready-made Computer Game Framework
Leveraging the prevailing interest in computer games among college students,
both for entertainment and as a possible career path, is a major reason for the
increasing prevalence of computer game design courses in computer science
curricula. Because implementing a computer game requires strong programming
skills, game design courses are most often restricted to more advanced computer
science students. This paper reports on a ready-made game design and
experimentation framework, implemented in Java, that makes game programming
more widely accessible. This framework, called Labyrinth, enables students at
all programming skill levels to participate in computer game design. We
describe the architecture of the framework, and discuss programming projects
suitable for a wide variety of computer science courses, from capstone to
non-major.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure