COM265-FA09: schedule for Intro to Game Studies

Week13

Break

Our compulsion: Why do we play games?

Finals week

game festival/relief session(s)

Unity game testing and revisions complete

iPhone dev in Unity next semester?

Unity game PR and marketing

game studio

Week15

Read Chapters 11 and 12 “Digital games and gender” and “Digital games and the violence debate” from UDG and discuss in Forum

Unity game testing and revisions

Week14

Read Chapter 10 “Community, identity and digital games” from UDG and discuss in Forum

Read Chapter 9 “Digital games and cultural studies” from UDG and discuss in Forum

History and production

Week 2

40 years old, more or less; Game Ontology Project

Studio: Game Maker, tutorial 1 in-class, mods for next studio class

Read: Chapter 3 “The business of making digital games” from UDG and discuss in Forum

Week 3

Studio: play tutorial 1 modded games made in Game Maker; tutorial 2, in-class, mod for next studio class

Week 4

Read Chapter 4 “The economics of digital games” from UDG and discuss in Forum

Week5

Read Chapter 5 “A player-centered approach to digital game design” from UDG and Ludology (see link on node) and discuss in Forum

Week6

Studio: Start Unity tutorials, build FPS, analyze and mod game mechanics in groups

Week7

Studio: Unity studio for duration of semester, milestones TBD, game design docs, example, iterative process every week

Week 1

first half

Expectations, Attendance, Regs, ilearn

tools/applications

special guests?

Read Chapter 1 “An introduction to understanding digital games”; top five games.

Read Chapter 2 “A history of digital games” from UDG and discuss in Forum; and Game Maker PDF

second half

more of everything for everyone, game play mondays

why forums?

start gamemaker tute 1

Theories and approaches

Week12

Group game doc due w/ roles briefly outlined

Read Chapter 8 “Digital games as new media” from UDG and discuss in Forum

Week11

Mini-game docs due we'd.

Week10

Read Chapter 7 “Film studies and digital games” from UDG and discuss in Forum

Week9

Mini-game in-class exercise

Week8

Read Chapter 6 “Literary theory and digital games” and discuss in Forum

required

Understanding Digital Games, ed. by J. Rutter and J. Bryce, 2006, Sage Publications [UDG]

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