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 block, read stuff from other fields and make up game ideas
group work - working in mixed major groups, different roles, taking the lead, reporting on group work, evaluating group members
game testing, bug reporting
game analysis & review
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