CE913-7-SP-CO:
Group Project (Incorporating a Game Jam)
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2025/26
Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (School of)
Colchester Campus
Spring
Postgraduate: Level 7
Inactive
Monday 12 January 2026
Friday 20 March 2026
15
17 June 2022
Requisites for this module
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MSC G61012 Computer Games,
MSC G456N4 Computing
This module is in essence a variant of the CE903 Group Project, incorporating a Game Jam that has previously been highly successful as part of the IGGI doctoral centre.
The aim of this module is to provide students with the opportunity to apply their specialised knowledge to a realistic problem, and gain practical experience of the processes involved in the team-based production of software.
After completing this module each team will be expected to have:
1. Held regular group meetings and maintained a diary of their progress.
2. Defined and allocated tasks to individual members according to their skills.
3. Used available project management tools to organise their activities.
4. Produced a fully tested working implementation of their game.
5. Delivered appropriate documentation of a professional standard.
6. Given a presentation in which they described the way the project was managed, explained their design and demonstrated their final product.
7. Published a version of the game playable via a Web Browser
Each individual student will be expected to have contributed fully to his or her team's activities, and will be expected to be able to:
1. Describe the processes involved in the team-based production of the game.
2. Explain and justify the design, implementation and evaluation of their team's finished game.
3. Give an account of their individual contribution to the team's effort.
Syllabus
Starting from an outline description of a realistic problem, each team is required to develop a fully implemented software solution using appropriate engineering and project management techniques. Wherever possible, teams are organised on the basis of shared interest, and the problem is designed to exercise their understanding of their area of specialised study.
Global Game Jam
The students in each group will take part in a global game jam together in late January, which may lay the foundations of the group project. The outcome of the game jam should be included in the first report submission for CE913 (Requirements Specification and Project Plan). The information about the game jam can be found at http://globalgamejam.org/, and further guidelines will be provided by the group project supervisor.
Lectures and Project Supervision
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Ramy Hammady, email: r.hammady@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Ramy Hammady
School Office, email: csee-schooloffice (non-Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk to create full e-mail address), Telephone 01206 872770
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Dr Muhammad Bilal
Lancaster University
Senior Lecturer
Available via Moodle
Of 11 hours, 11 (100%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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