Week 12 • GitHub Collaborations: HTML5 Game Dev

To Do This Week

• Form Teams: Join a group of 3–4 students for the team-based HTML5 game project.
• Set Up Repositories:
  • One team member creates a new GitHub repo and adds all members as collaborators.
  • Clone the repo locally and verify push/pull access.
• Read & Review:
  • Collaborating with issues and pull requests (GitHub Docs)
  • Managing branches (GitHub Docs)
  • GitHub Flow Overview
• Project Planning:
  • Agree on basic game concept, roles (developer, designer, asset creator, integrator, etc.)
  • Create a project board or issue list to assign tasks and track progress.

In Class

1. Greg's Talk:
   • Repository: A folder containing all project files and version history.
   • Branch: A parallel version of the code to work on new features.
   • Pull Request (PR): A proposal to merge changes from one branch into another.
   • Merge Conflict: When changes to the same part of the code are made in different branches and must be resolved manually.
2. Team Workshop:
   • Break into teams and sketch game ideas, assign roles.
   • Set up a team GitHub repo.
   • Practice branching and making pull requests.
   • Start modular development with different students working on different files or features.