DANM 250E: Game Design + Documentary Storytelling + Social Activism

Week 4

Thursday, October 19

CLASS TOPICS & ACTIVITIES
  • Discussion on Read/Watch/Play/Explore materials due today
  • Presentation and critique of Collaborative Activist Game
  • Discuss Documentary Game assignment
  • Screening of Playing Columbine (by Danny Ledonne, 2008; if time allows)
READING DUE TODAY
  • Beautiful Trouble, like last week read any 2 (your choice) Tactics + any 2 Principles + any 2 Theories + any 2 Case Studies + any 2 Practitioners
  • Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy, Chapter 1: Politics in and Age of Fantasy"
  • Making political videogames may not work. But we have to try," by John Brindle
PLAYING/EXPLORING DUE TODAY
  • Cart Life (2012), by Richard Hofmeier
  • Dys4ia (2012), by Anna Anthropy
  • RE: Activism (2008-Present), by PETLab
DUE TODAY
  • Weekly journal
  • Collaborative Activist Game


 

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