Submit your response to Assignment 4 as a comment to this post. Below are the five games that you chose to focus on, broken out by game name (pink), the social issues that the game world deals with (orange), the actions or game mechanics (green), and the underlying values that the game studios want to […]
Class 6-MON 9/27
Look back at the Class 5 notes for the beginning of the overviewāwe 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-WED 9/22
We then began the āGames and Games Designā overview with a discussion of types of games, along with situational contexts, factors, reasons, etc. for playing each type of gameā In the slide above, we have an example of RPS (Rock, Paper, Scissors) on the upper left, which is known as a “hand game, simultaneous, zero-sumā […]
Response to Assignment 3
Submit your response to the two Assignment 3 readings as a comment to this post, either as two separate comments or together in one comment.
Class 4-MON 9/20 design exercise
We began with a review of different approaches to creativity and design methodologiesā These are the combined/abbreviated steps that we focused on for the in-class design challengeā Here’s one example from IDEO on how to frame a design challengeā Then I showed some movie trailers and slides to help set a futuristic context for the […]
Class 3 – MON 9/13
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 […]
Response to Assignment 2āreading
Please submit your written response to the reading “Speculative design: 3 examples of design fiction” (from the Read and Respond section of Assignment #2) as a comment on this post. See the Assignments page for due date.
Response to Assignment 2āvideos
Please submit your written response to the videos (from the Watch and Respond section of Assignment #2) as a comment on this post. As mentioned on the Assignments page, you can send either or both to me via DM on Slack.
Welcome!
Please thoroughly read through the Syllabus pages. The Schedule page and other pages will be updated throughout the semester. Please also fill out this initial survey. To get started on the first assignment, navigate to the Assignments page and view the first assignment, which includes a link to the video documentary to watch, along with […]
