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The course was useful in general but did not succeed in teaching students enough specific game programming content. The course this year had many students who had not done the Game Design course in first year as it had changed from game design to experience design. Thus many students did not understand the basics of creating a game and so the intended content was not well suited to the students doing the course. This is the last time this course will run as a 10pt course. The 7.5pt course needs to be taught as an introduction to game development rather than game programming as there is too much to cover with the objective of teaching game design and programming. The online lectures worked well, but the challenges of social distancing were too great for some students to overcome with Discord and Zoom. The students in general learnt a lot about working in groups and planning projects from the course, and feel that they have benefitted from taking the course, but the lessons were not about game programming but about game development.

The learning outcomes were presented in the first lecture and students were asked about their background and what their focus would be for the course. The learning outcomes were seen as important. However, the lack of previous game experience made it difficult to achieve the learning outcomes. The learning outcomes will need to be updated and the course redesigned given the change in the previous courses outcomes.

The combination of lectures and and a large project are still an effective way of creating a learning environment for students who have made multiple games before starting the course. Given the lack of prior experience to achieve the learning outcomes they will need to change and the students will need to make more small games to learn the initial basics of game development. This semester has been very difficult for the students. The movtivation to work on the game project also suffered as they did not get to see other students working in the labs, and interact with the other students to see their progress. If in-person teaching returns in Host 2021 this problem should hopefully decrease. The general comment from the students is that the lectures and project were interesting and engaging, but focusing without intermediate deadlines was difficult.

There is a strong correlation between the learning outcomes and the project assesment, however given the nature of the students entering the course the project was not as well sutied to them as they did not have the required experience to get the most out of a semester long project.

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