Image via Wikipediai’m reading a history of card games (that’s the name of the book) and it was talking about different kinds of games nad mentioned drinking games. The author (David Parlett) says drinking games are typically fast and funny and have no winners. “Their purpose is to yield a loser whose privilege it is [...]
Archive > June 2008
movies to show in class
Image via Wikipedia – maybe show outside for extra credit and invite other people
- Word Wars (netflix view instantly) – competitive scrabble, competition games in society, culture of gaming
- Scrabylon (library dvd3322) – competitive scrabble
- VideoGames: Behind the fun (netflix view instantly) – history channel documentary on games
- King of Kong (netflix view instantly) – [...]
tools we need to practice using
concept mapping
tools in word for coding, organizing, marking up
go thru the book by Hahn about doing qualitative reesarch using the computer and get some specific ideas
textbook notes – Shane
gotta decide pretty early on – what you want to find out a question, a topic
use multiple data sources
get emic perspectives (from the participant’s point of view, not just the researchers)
in naturalistic settings (not in a lab, but real world, where people normally hang out/interact)
gotta think – seems silly to say – but it’s not [...]
on first day
Image via Wikipedianeed to collect contact info and info about their game use – going to try to use google spreadsheets and forms. Each person will use their laptop (have to send them a message to bring their laptop – or make it homework maybe?) to fill in the form and then we can look [...]
an exercise to practice generating game ideas
generate game ideas based on emotions not usually found in videogames – idea from project horseshoe – http://www.projecthorseshoe.com/ph07/ph07r5.htm – each group takes one emotion and generates several ideas and researches existing games to see how it’s implemented. idea is to bounce ideas off of each other. It’s part of creative exercise to impose strange limits [...]
