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Schedule
- Read Schreiber Level 1 and 2.
- Register your Google Account using the form linked from Canvas
- Complete the “Let's Make a Game” activity. Take a snapshot of your game and post it to the appropriate document on Google Drive for discussion at this meeting.
- Read the MDA paper
- In the shared folder on Google Drive, make a folder with your name. This is where you will store documents for this course.
- Play a game of your choice and conduct an MDA analysis of it. Put your analysis into a document called “ MDA: N, where N is the name of the game you played. Read and comment on at least two other students' MDA analyses before the class meeting.
- It is strongly recommended to take a visit to the grounds and/or museum at Minnetrista before the next meeting.
- Read Schreiber Level 3.
- Write a critical analysis in the style described in the reading. Put this analysis in your folder on Drive and create a summary poster for presentation in class.
- Read Schreiber Level 4.
- Make a list of four digital games and write 2–3 sentences describing a paper prototype for each. Prepare this as a poster to present in class.
- Read Schreiber Level 5 and complete the mini-challenge at the end of the reading. Prepare this as a poster for presentation.
- Read Schreiber Level 6 and complete one of the four homeplay options. Prepare this as a poster for presentation.
- Read Schreiber Level 7 and complete the homeplay. Prepare this as a poster for presentation.
- Read Schreiber Level 8 and complete the homeplay. Share your design on the Canvas discussion board by the end of the day on Sunday, September 17. Provide constructive criticism on at least two of your peers' designs before the start of class on Tuesday, September 19.
- Read the rules to Everyone is John that are shared in the Files section on Canvas.
- Note that this is a “split class”. The early group will begin at 12:30PM, and the late group will begin at 1:05PM.
- Read Schreiber Level 9 and complete the homeplay. Prepare this as a poster for presentation.
- Read Schreiber Level 10.
- Develop two significant discussion questions based on the readings and activities completed so far in the course. Consider yourself to be finding essential questions of game design.
- Read Burgun's “What Makes a Game?” essay.
- For each level of Burgun's hierarchy of interactive systems, take an existing “game” (that is, that which is colloquially called such) that fits it and write a brief justification. These should be new examples, not those from Burgun's writing. Record this work in your folder on Google Drive.
- Read at least pages 20–38 of Klopfer, Osterweil, and Salen's “Moving Learning Games Forward”.
- Choose one of the game integrations ( e.g. authoring systems, content systems) and consider how it can be used along with Minnetrista's themes, explicitly drawing upon the design principles later in the reading. Prepare this as a poster for presentation.
Fall Break—No Class Meeting- Create an original interactive narrative using Twine. Build your experience around the Minnetrista themes that we have been discussing. Export your story and post the HTML file to the appropriate thread on Canvas before the start of this class meeting.
- By Sunday, complete a concept document, and submit it following the criteria given on Canvas. You will receive feedback from the instructor by Monday night.
- Present your concept in an in-class pitch.
- Play at least three other students' Twine stories and leave constructive criticism in the discussion thread.
- Complete and submit a second, different concept document and pitch it in class.
- Complete a concept document to go with a statement of commitment that you will give in class. This commits you to a game concept to complete as your final project.
- Workshop day: Work with the instructor and your classmates on the core systems and narrative of your project.
- Halloween Game Day: Bring a treat to share!
Thanksgiving Break—No class meeting- Group A Practice Presentation
- Group B Practice Presentation
- Group A Final Presentation
- Group B Final Presentation