Week 2
Today's discussion on Read/Watch/Play/Explore materials is led by: Kara
TOPICS & ACTIVITIES- Discussion: Games & Play (continued)
- News Game exercise presented
- Game design exercise (as time allows)
- Discuss Collaborative Activist Game assignment
- (Ensure there is a discussion leader for all weeks)
- Games, Design and Play: A Detailed Approach to Iterative Game Design, Chapters 1-3 (I am making these first 3 chapters available as PDF). See this Collaborative Mind Map of the text.
- Gaming the System: Making games (for change), by Colleen Macklin
- Design Heuristics for Activist Games, by Mary Flanagan and Helen Nissenbaum
- Making Games in a Fucked-Up World, video presentation by Paolo Pedercini (also, Paolo's slides are here)
- September 12th: A Toy World (2003), by Newsgaming and Gonzalo Frasca
- The games of Molleindustria, pay particular attention to The McDonalds Game (2006) and Unmanned (2012)
- Loopy: a tool for thinking in systems (2017), by Nicky Case
1) News Game exercise: 1) In-class presentation of the game, 2) File(s) submitted to course Google folder (if applicable), and 3) Documentation of the project in Scalar
2) Reflection on Read/Watch/Play materials listed for today (in Scalar)
3) Sign-up for leading one discussion
4) A reminder that from now on, please come to class fully prepared to work on game design projects, i.e. laptop, paper prototyping materials, etc.
5) Recommended/Optional:
- View one or more Scalar past webinars
- Look through one or more Scalar projects
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- Schedule Susana Ruiz
