Frequently Asked Questions

The course slides are added a few days after each lecture on the schedule page.

A LaTeX report template as well as a description of what each category should contain is available on the project structure page.

Yes! But not on any machine.

Developping a game for the Xbox requires some specific setups (Windows 10, Developer mode, Visual Studio 2017, etc.) which is only available on 4 machines at ETH: those computers are located in the window-side corners of the rooms CAB H 56 and CAB H 57. To use them, switch the screen input and pull the second keyboard located on top of the PC box.

Those computers use a restricted network. Ask your teachers to be added to that network before trying to use them.

You can contact us on Slack external page https://gamelab2024.slack.com (once we added you to the Slack workspace) or by email: .

Universal Windows Project apps only run on Windows 10; not on earlier versions of Windows and not on iOS. If you want to use your mac to develop UWP apps, you can use third-party solutions (like Oracle VirtualBox, VMware, etc.) to install Windows 10 and Visual Studio.

Yes, you need to create UWP project to target multiple Windows platforms. It is the only software platform to create games for devices, such as Xbox, Hololens, etc.

For thhis course, please use the "MonoGame Cross-Platform Desktop Application (OpenGL)" template in Visual Studio instead, as the games created are intended to run on Windows. This template also supports other operating systems (MacOS and Linux).