Today’s class is a play-test exercise for your group to get feedback on your game concept and sketches from another group. When you’re not in a play-test session, you should either be preparing for your play-test session, discussing the feedback you received, or preparing the document and presentation for Friday’s deadline.
Class 9, Tues 9/29
I reviewed where we are in the Project 1 process, and then gave an overview of rapid/lo-fi prototyping— To get you started on the creation of your group’s sketch-based prototype, I showed some video examples of game paper prototypes (one of them is no longer online)— —and this one, which moves beyond a lo-fi prototype […]
Class 8, Wed 9/23
Today we started with a look at the games and game reviews you chose for Assignment 4. I’d created this slide to serve as an at-a-glance view that summarized the games you chose thus far, roughly parsed out in VAP-style, with pink being the game, orange being the social issue that the game deals with, green […]
Class 7, Mon 9/21
This marked the beginning of the Project 1 process. Before ideation, we reviewed some of the key takeaways from Assignment 2— We also reviewed the Values at Play process— Below are photos of the VAP game cards, that served as a springboard for your own choice of social issue + game to transform + game […]
Class 6, Wed 9/16
Look back at the Class 5 notes for the beginning of the overview—we talked about different types of games, your first games, and ended up on the variety of game genres. Today, I asked you to think about your own motivations or reasons for playing games, and you wrote these words in Chat: bragging rights, […]
Class 5, Mon 9/14
Professor Heidi Boisvert began with a guest lecture on her body of work (see her website), and also mentioned the department’s seven-year self-study project, along with some upcoming changes. Visit her faculty page for contact info. We then began the “Games and Games Design” overview with a discussion of types of games, along with situational […]
Class 4, Wed 9/9 design exercise
We began with a review of different approaches to creativity and design methodologies— These are the combined/abbreviated steps that we focused on for the in-class design challenge— Here’s one example from IDEO on how to frame a design challenge— Then I showed some movie trailers and slides to help set a futuristic context for the […]
Class 3, Wednesday 9/2
This class began with an informal online quiz to see what you remembered from the historical context overview in Class 2. We then discussed your answers about your first technology-related memories: computer, phone, game, music (method of listening), and the technological innovation that most impacted your life thus far. We “unpacked” your answers to consider […]
Class 2, Monday 8/31
Class began with you each noting your “tech firsts”— I began the historical overview with a slide featuring the gigantic Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC), the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, built during WWII by the U.S.— Then I went back in time to the early 1800s with the invention of the Jacquard […]
