teaching
IDEA 135
Games at Work: Participation, Procedure, and Play
overview | logistics | schedule | assignments | journals | glitch | resourcesTentative Schedule (changes frequently)
| week | date | topic | in-class | readings | tutorials | work due | |
| 1 | 1/28/2019 | Game On! Games and Experience | Definitions; Surrealist Games; Event Scores | syllabus | |||
| 1/30/2019 | ENCODE: Markup; HTML | Chapter 1 of Homo Ludens by Huizinga | Introduction to HTML & Multimedia | sketch 1: Event Score | |||
| 2 | 2/4/2019 | Rules and Roles | Twine | "Defining Games" from Rules of Play by Salen and Zimmerman | Twine 2.0 Tutorials 1-2; harlow reference manual | sketch 2: Board Game Modification | |
| 2/6/2019 | Escape Room; D&D | "Frames and Games" by Fine | |||||
| 3 | 2/11/2019 | Computers | COMMAND: composition, coordinates, color | "Four Essential Properties of Digital Environments" by Murray | McCarthy ch. 1--3; EJS 1 | sketch 3: Winding Road | |
| 2/13/2019 | BRANCH: response, variables, conditionals, events | "Riddle Machines: The History and Nature of Interactive Fiction" by Nick Montfort | McCarthy ch. 4--5; EJS 2 | sketch 4: Avatar | |||
| 4 | 2/18/2019 | Media & Mechanics | Sprites & GIFs | "The Affect of Animated GIFs" by Sally McKay | sketch 5: Interactive Avatar | ||
| 2/20/2019 | ASSETS: media & libraries | "Games as Narrative Play" from Rules of Play by Salen and Zimmerman | McCarthy 6--7; p5.play | sketch 6: Sprite Sheets | |||
| 5 | 2/25/2019 | REMEMBER: randomness, state, timers, easing | "Introduction & Randomness" from 10 PRINT CHR$(20.5.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 by Monfort et al | McCarthy 8 | sketch 7: p5.play remix | ||
| 2/27/2019 | sound | "Gameplay, Genre, and the Functions of Game Audio" by Collins | TBD | PROJECT 1: PROPOSAL | 6 | 3/4/2019 | Game Creators | REUSE I: functions; loops | McCarthy 9; EJS 3 | PROJECT 1: WORK IN PROGRESS | 3/6/2019 | REUSE II: objects | "Rise of the Videogame Zinesters" by Anthropy; "Free Software" | McCarthy 10; EJS 4 |
| 7 | 3/11/2019 | Feedback | project 1 critiques | PROJECT 1 | |||
| 3/13/2019 | project 1 critiques | "Epistemelogical Pluralism and the Revaluation of the Concrete" by Turkle & Papert | |||||
| 8 | 3/18/2019 | Spring Break | |||||
| 3/20/2019 | |||||||
| 9 | 3/25/2019 | Virtual Environments | loops; arrays | "The Six Elements and the Causal Relations Among Them" from Computers as Theater by Brenda Laurel | McCarthy 11 | ||
| 3/27/2019 | simulation | "Navigating the Narrative in Space: Gender and Spatiality in Virtual Worlds," by Mary Flanagan | p5-matter examples: simple platform; p5-play bounce example | sketch 8: Chain of Events | |||
| 10 | 4/1/2019 | The Cinematic | photoshop | "Theater and Cinema" by Bazin | First 5 Get Started Tutorials | sketch 9: Chain of Events 2 | |
| 4/3/2019 | animation; interfaces | "A Primitive Mode of Representation?" by Noel Burch | photoshop frame animations; gamepad api | sketch 10: Game Board Modification | |||
| 11 | 4/8/2019 | Game Culture | 3D; Blender Basics | "Future is Now: Changes in Gaming Culture" by Kocurek; Gamergate by Dewey | PROJECT 2: PROPOSAL | ||
| 4/10/2019 | mesh modeling | TBD | Blender Beginner Tutorial - Part 1: User Interface and Part 2: Moving, Rotating, Scaling and Part 3: Edit Mode | ||||
| 12 | 4/15/2019 | Games and Power | a-frame; ar.js | "From From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games" by Halter | getting started with A-frame and 3d models | PROJECT 2: WORK IN PROGRESS | |
| 4/17/2019 | "War/Game: Studying Relations Between Violent Conflict, Games, and Play" by Holger Potzsch, Philip Hammond | Building a Basic Scene in A-Frame; Creating Augmented Reality with AR.js and A-Frame | |||||
| 13 | 4/22/2019 | Feedback | project 2 critiques | PROJECT 2 DUE | |||
| 4/24/2019 | project 2 critiques | makey makey | |||||
| 14 | 4/29/2019 | advising day | |||||
| 5/1/2019 | p5.geolocation | PROJECT 3: PROPOSAL | |||||
| 15 | 5/6/2019 | Non-games | "Gamified life" by Vincent Gabrielle | ||||
| 5/8/2019 | "Gamification and Other Forms of Play" by Jagoda | PROJECT 3: Work in Progress | |||||
| 16 | 5/13/2019 | Workshop Day | |||||
| 5/15/2019 | project 3 critiques | PROJECT 3 | |||||
| 17 | 5/20/2019 | ||||||