Assessment Latest Release Dates

• Game Development Task 1: 24/08/2025

• Ethics Report: 14/09/2025

• Game Development Task 2: 12/10/2025

Requirements To Pass This Unit

To pass this unit, you must:

• Achieve a total mark equal to or greater than 50

In order to achieve this criteria, it is recommended that students attempt all assessment tasks including Game Development Task 1, Game Development Task 2, and the Ethics Essay.

Late Assessment Submission Penalty

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark of the task) will be applied for each day a written report or presentation assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a grade of ‘0’ will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. The submission time for all uploaded assessments is 11:55 pm. A 1-hour grace period will be provided to students who experience a technical concern. For any late submission of time-sensitive tasks, such as scheduled tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, and/or scheduled practical assessments/labs, please apply for Special Consideration. For example, if the assignment is worth 30 marks (of the entire unit) and your submission is late by 19 hours (or up to 23 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds), 1.5 marks (5% of 30 marks) will be deducted. If your submission is late by 24 hours (or up to 47 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds), 3 marks (10% of 30 marks) will be deducted, and so on. 

Assessments where Late Submissions will be accepted 

In this unit, late submissions will be accepted as follows:

• Game Development Task 1 – YES, Standard Late Penalty applies
• Ethics Report – YES, Standard Late Penalty applies
• Game Development Task 2 – YES, Standard Late Penalty applies

Special Consideration

The Special Consideration Policy aims to support students who have been impacted by short-term circumstances or events that are serious, unavoidable and significantly disruptive, and which may affect their performance in assessment. If you experience circumstances or events that affect your ability to complete the assessments in this unit on time, please inform the convenor and submit a Special Consideration request through http://connect.mq.edu.au/.

Week 1 classes

Lectures and practical classes begin in week 1.

Methods of Communication

Communication is largely through lectures and workshops, but please keep an eye on your university email and announcements on iLearn. Queries to teaching staff can be saved for workshops or live lectures, placed on the iLearn discussion board or sent to the unit convenor via the contact email on iLearn.

Software Used

This unit uses the Unity3D game engine, which is avaliable on lab PCs. The software can also be downloaded and used at home from https://unity.com/. See iLearn for the Unity version currently installed in the labs.

It is students' responsibility to ensure their device can run Unity before attempting their assignments on their home computers.

Assignments and practical tasks are distributed through Github Classroom. Although Github Desktop is used as an example Git client, students are able to use whatever tool they wish, but must understand technical support cannot be provided for all tools.

Students are expected to attempt practical tasks before coming to class. If students are unable to work on practicals and assignments on their own devices and require additional access to University computers, they can request special lab access. See iLearn for details.

Use of Generative AI

The use of Generative AI including LLMs and image generators is permitted in this unit where this use does not undermine the Learning Outcomes of the unit and specific assessment tasks. All use of Generative AI must be appropriately acknowledged, evidenced and referenced.

The particularities and affordances of Generative AI usage will vary between assessments. Please consult the assessment specifications of each task for details. Use of Generative AI that does not adhere to assessment-specific details may result in a breach of Academic Integrity.

For more information on the use of Generative AI in your studies, please see the FSE Gen AI module: https://ishare.mq.edu.au/prod/file/c6b0caa4-23dd-4372-b07d-5a03379fc3e8/1/FSE_GenAI-module.zip/content/index.html#/

This schedule is subject to change. Please see iLearn for the most up-to-date version of the schedule.

This unit has undergone assessment redesign since the last offering to comply with the three assessment model policy. These changes have also been made in line with feedback to reduce requirements for documentation.

Student feedback is highly valued to be help us to continually improve the way we offer our units, and has resulted in significant changes to this unit over the years. As such we encourage students to provide constructive feedback via student surveys, to the teaching staff directly, or via the FSE Student Experience & Feedback link in the iLearn page.