Hi Everyone, Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!

A bit of housekeeping:

Please make sure all your final drafts Social Media Essays are uploaded to your folders by 12 AM, March 5th. They should be title, dated and contain your name in the header. I’m looking forward to reading them.

Designing Games cont.

Discuss  MDA: A Formal Approach to Game Design and Game Research Robin Hunicke, Marc LeBlanc, Robert Zubek In your own words describe the MDA system.

What is the MDA method? In pairs discuss the the games you wrote about? Give each other feed back.

Last week we explored “what is AI?” Specifically we looked at how they work, how they are trained Large Language Models explained briefly 3 Blue 1 Brown and we also looked at the AI Industry stack.

Today I would like us to think about two intersecting issues

Dr. Joy Buolamwini (author of Unmasking AI) at the FYE® Conference 2024

Brainstorming

Day 1: Brainstorm, prototype, test

  • Kinds of Games with examples: Area Control/Influence, Resource Management, Cooperative Gameplay, Hidden Role/Traitor Mechanic, Set Collection, Negotiation or Variable Player Powers
    • (all) research and write one idea per post-it note
  • Brainstorm themes/stories/values
    • (all) post-its
  • Game mechanics and goals
    • (all) post-its

We will break up into groups – Each Group choose one from each category

Follow the MDA method

  • prototype
  • play test
  • adjust
  • play test again with different class members (feedback)
  • make adjustments

Document Everything!