Developing a New Major

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General

• make stuff ABOUT games (news portal, analysis blog)
• research a job (could be to put on the news portal)
• research a game studio (could also be for hte news portal)
• keep up to date about the industry (trade publications, industry blogs, industry news sites, MOBY games [like imdb for videogames])
• network with people in the industry – read and post on industry blogs, be active in professional organizations

Playing & Making

• play board and card games
• play new-to-you types of videogames – different genres, different platforms – need a check off sheet where ya x in what you’ve played before and we assign ya games to fill in the holes
• make analog games – ice house games board & card games, enter them in contests when possible
• make videogames – enter them in contests
• pitch games
• brainstorm
• work with subject matter experts when creating games
• development techniques – scrum, waterfall, agile
• write documentation
• do quality assurance tasks
• programming skills, art skills, game dev basics

producing skills

• risk analysis/SWOT
• competitive analysis
• project management
• team skills – communicate, give/receive feedback
• entrepreneurial mindset, skills

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