Trying to think of all the ways we could market hte new program except I don’t know what costs to put on the sheet - do i have to put postage (how much is bulk, do schools get a discount), do i pay for printing and do i have to find a printer - stuff [...]
Archive > March 2008
idea for freshman class
list 10 favorite games nad say why favorite
list 10 game you think are most influential, most important - and why
are any of your favorites on teh list of most important - why or why not
Need to build a list of important games - can use in analysis class, need to play them, need to study [...]
basic skills to work into the freshman class
school skills - research skills - content analysis, surveys,literature review writing, bibliographies good sources, note-taking, blogging, using wiki, creating webpage (to start their portfolio)
creativity - idea generation, flesh out idea stubs - look at the patrickcurry.com blog with his game idea a week, use the creativity books the desiners mentioned as ways to overcome designers [...]
idea for the freshman class
have game leaders - people who will teach the other students a particular game. Have a group of game leaders for each group - each game leader then teaches the game to another group - the game leader group could write up instructions, give a little history of the game
They have to get together [...]
curriculum approved at the school level
some folks think it doesn’t belong in our dept - even tho the content of many games is tv (and movies) and even tho the game makes are often times using assets right from teh tv & movie productions - oh well
we need an art person - all the depts at the school need an [...]
project for game class
Sims Carnival (if it’s out of beta)
- the wizard gives you a basic game form and then walks you thru decisions about player control, obstacles, speed
- good way to intro the students to all the decisions game designers have to make and the detail that needs to go into a game design doc
- can have [...]
Another project for intro games class in the fall
Media literacy project - look at the media to see how they cover/treat games
- media = news magazines, business magazines, mens & womens magazines, tv news - not computer game magazines
- where are games covered - what department(s)
- time period - need to go back to arcade period I think - so 70s maybe - [...]