Since I may be leaving IC in a year, I need to start to think about how i can apply what I’ve learvned about videogames to other fields so I can try to fit into other college programs and still hopefully get to do some videogame work.
I’m going to do more research on the fun [...]
Archive > March 2009
The focus of the blog may be changing
ya know that blog fuck you penguin?
ya don’t – well go look it up you slacker
Ok so today I”m the penguin – the provost just said fuck you to this penguin – no tenure for you. So all this hard work (it was fun, but it was work) was for naught. Someone else will get to run the program I designed [...]
ideas for critical analysis quiz right before spring break
active & passive visual interface
manual & visual interface
character archetypes – using the game you play for your blog – pick one character and tell what archetype it is. define the archetype
what do they mean when they say “a game is its rules”
what are some characteristics of “good enemies” according to the textbook?
interplay rules & evaluation [...]
notes about gameplay
going to look at 3 games
twivia_bot – question posted on twitter, you direct message back the answer/quess, you get nudges if your answer is close, you get messages if you’re the first to answer right and if you answer right. There’s a website with some player stats, time count down to the next round, and [...]
notes about fun portal
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theme – boardgame (retro look, simple, what’s the goal for getting to the end), pinwheel (bright colors, click on the pieces to go to info on different kinds of fun, animated), pie chart (bright colors, click on pieces, graphs not normally associated with fun), amusement park (each “land” in the park is a [...]
ideas for fall – game class
do a news portal
podcasts/recordings with summaries of news stories and current topics of interest in the field
game related links and annotations
bios of key figures (how to make different from wiki entry?)
make ads for game (the boardgames, games they like, top 25 most important games
juniors add industry profiles, info on interesting jobs, make ads for games [...]
ideas for fall senior seminar
They need to find examples of that kind of fun to put on the portal
interview on tape someone from another field talking about fun
only do 5 or 6 reading summaries
need som better directions for their presentations – no powerpoint, need to lead discussion – talking points memos?
reading notes – ch7 Rollings & Adams on Gameplay
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their definition of gameplay – one or more causally linked series of challenges in a simulated environment
simulated enviornment – because we stop playing when we leave the game, the game is separate from life, from real life
challenges rather than choices – they thought choices too broad, couldinclude choosing to go [...]
