OK - first pass at a goal for the program
Give students a wide ranging background and technical skills to produce high quality immersive media experiences. The background is the story elements - things to make games about - big stories, history, archaeology…
it’s that background part that is going to be toughest to keep in the [...]
Archive > September 2007
Goal
Problems
Staffing is going to be a problem - and i have a feeling not just in my school but also in arts & sciences. And we’ll need tech people - who can support the software - so it’s not just bodies but skilled bodies.
keeping people from watering down the major will be another problem - [...]
4 year plan
Man - how did the Soviets make all those 5 year plans over and over again? It’s a pain in the butt. There’s a lot of stuff I want the students to know in this degree - things the igda folks say is good to know.
And then ya have to leave enough time for htem [...]
Finally have a focus for the blog
We’re working on new curriculum initiatives where I teach - about videogames. I’m involved in trying to get them off the ground. The chair of my dept suggested I keep a journal about the efforts to see if there might be a journal article about the process that I could write. I figured a blog [...]