iPhone dev in Unity next semester?
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
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
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
Studio: play tutorial 1 modded games made in Game Maker; tutorial 2, in-class, mod for next studio class
Read Chapter 4 “The economics of digital games” from UDG and discuss in Forum
Read Chapter 5 “A player-centered approach to digital game design” from UDG and Ludology (see link on node) and discuss in Forum
Studio: Start Unity tutorials, build FPS, analyze and mod game mechanics in groups
Studio: Unity studio for duration of semester, milestones TBD, game design docs, example, iterative process every week
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
more of everything for everyone, game play mondays
why forums?
start gamemaker tute 1
Group game doc due w/ roles briefly outlined
Read Chapter 8 “Digital games as new media” from UDG and discuss in Forum
Mini-game docs due we'd.
Read Chapter 7 “Film studies and digital games” from UDG and discuss in Forum
Mini-game in-class exercise
Read Chapter 6 “Literary theory and digital games” and discuss in Forum