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	<h1>Assignment</h1>
	<p>You will be assessed in the following ways:</p>

	<ul>
		<li><a href="#gd-asteroids">Asteroids Experiment</a></li>
		<li><a href="#gd-hack">Game Design Hack (3-4 students per group)</a></li>
		<li><a href="#gd-player">Player Experience Experiments (3-4 students per group)</a></li>
	</ul>

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	<h2>1. Asteroids Experiment [10%]</h2>
	<p class="lead"> Searching a design space </p>

	<h3>Criteria</h3>
	<ul>
		<li>Create fitness function (50%)</li>
		<li>Decide on parameters and possible values (50%)</li>
	</ul>

	<h3>Deliverables</h3>
	<ul>
		<li> Description of parameters used in search</li>
		<li> Description of fitness function used in search</li>
		<li> Final parameters found by search</li>
		<li> Code project with the modifications</li>
	</ul>

	<h3>Submission</h3>
	<p>Submission should be zipped into a single file and emailed to:
		 <a href="mailto:jwalto@essex.ac.uk?subject=Asteroids Submission: NAME">jwalto@essex.ac.uk</a>
		  with the subject "Asteroids Submission: NAME"</p>

	<a id="gd-hack">
	<h2>2. Game Design Hack [40%]</h2>
	<p class="lead">A good game that fits together</p>

	<h3>Criteria</h3>
	<ul>
		<li>A working game created using the framework (50%)</li>
		<li>Game has a reasonable spread of parameters (25%)</li>
		<li>Description of parameters and their effects (25%)</li>
	</ul>

	<h3>Deliverables</h3>
	<ul>
		<li>Working game and brief description of how it works</li>
		<li>List parameters that could be used for modification and effects</li>
	</ul>

	<h3>Submission</h3>
	<p>Submission should be zipped into a single file and emailed to:
		 <a href="mailto:jwalto@essex.ac.uk?subject=Hack Submission: TEAM_NAME">jwalto@essex.ac.uk</a>
		  with the subject "Hack Submission: TEAM_NAME"</p>

	<a id="gd-player">
	<h2>3. Player Experience Experiments [50%]</h2>
	<p class="lead">In groups, take a game developed as part of the game design hack and use AI experiments to determine two experiments for human player testing. Perform play testing on these variants recording relevent results and give a presentation with these findings.</p>
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	<h3>3a. Final Presentation [10%]</h3>
	<p class="lead">Create a presentation explaining your game, explain the two variants of your game, the metrics that you used and the results of the games</p>

	<h4>Criteria</h4>
	<ul>
		<li>Presentation explains game well (15%)</li>
		<li>Variants explained well (15%)</li>
		<li>Metrics explained well (15%)</li>
		<li>Discussion of results (30%)</li>
		<li>Presentation qaulity (15%)</li>
		<li>Balance of contributions to presentation (10%)</li>
	</ul>

	<h4>Deliverables</h4>
	<ul>
		<li>The presentation itself (pptx or pdfs)</li>
		<li>Presentation given on Week 2, Session 5 PM</li>
	</ul>

	<h3>3b. Final Report [40%]</h3>
	<p class="lead">Providing a written report detailing what your team did in the final experiments.</p>

	<h4>Criteria</h4>
	<ul>
		<li>Report explains game well (15%)</li>
		<li>Varients explained well (15%)</li>
		<li>Metrics explained well (15%)</li>
		<li>Discussion of results (30%)</li>
		<li>Report qaulity (15%)</li>
		<li>Description of contribtions within the team (10%)</li>
	</ul>

	<h4>Deliverables</h4>
	<ul>
		<li>Questionaires, raw data, etc...</li>
		<li>Game varients</li>
		<li><a href="docs/report_template.docx">Report</a> submitted <strong>only</strong> in PDF format. </li>
	</ul>
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