Week 2
CLASS TOPICS & ACTIVITIES
- Discussion on Read/Watch/Play/Explore materials due today (this includes discussing journal entries)
- Discuss Collaborative Activist Game assignment
- Game design exercise and/or play selection of games
- Ensure everyone has signed up to lead a discussion.
- Games, Design and Play: A Detailed Approach to Iterative Game Design, Part 1 Chapters 1-3 (I am making these first 3 chapters available as PDF)
- Design Heuristics for Activist Games, by Mary Flanagan and Helen Nissenbaum
- Scalar 2 Introduction webinar video
- Making Games in a Fucked-Up World, video presentation by Paolo Pedercini (also, Paolo's slides of his presentation are here )
- See the following article and briefly explore the tools listed: 30 Immersive Storytelling platforms, apps, resources & tools (you will be selecting one of these as the primary tool for developing your activist game).
- The collection of games by Molleindustria, pay particular attention to The McDonalds Game (2006) and Casual Games for Protest (current).
- Weekly journal
- Recommended/Optional:
- Look over some projects in the Scalar Showcase (two recommendations: FemTechNet Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Pedagogy Workbook and Civic Media Project.
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