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Proposer
Adam Sampson
Title
Implement the game Dazzle Dart
Goal
Build a modern implementation of a pioneering 1970s multiplayer game
Description
Harold Abelson's Dazzle Dart (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1216479.1216482) was one of the earliest multiplayer video games, created at MIT in the early 1970s. It's well overdue for a remake using a modern engine! The original was constrained by the hardware it ran on and had a very abstract 2D display; you'd need to think about whether to adapt it to 3D and how to take advantage of modern controls. (A previous student did a basic 3D version using Unity, which worked pretty well, but I'd like to see a more polished version without the dependency on a proprietary game engine.)
Resources
Background
Url
External Link
Difficulty Level
Moderate
Ethical Approval
Full
Number Of Students
1
Supervisor
Adam Sampson
Keywords
games, history, retrocomputing
Degrees
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems
Bachelor of Science in Software Development for Business (GA)
Master of Engineering in Software Engineering
Master of Design in Games Design and Development
Master of Science in Computing (2 Years)
Master of Science in Information Technology (Software Systems)
Master of Science in Software Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Computing Science
Bachelor of Engineering in Robotics
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