Classroom
Monday
Look at flip books
Look at final animations
Wednesday
No class
Assignment
Have a great break!
Classroom
Monday
Presentations
Look at final drafts of final projects
Finish & turn in book chapters
Wednesday
No class
Assignment
Classroom
Presentations
Check out this article about the 10 best games of the year
Use Game Evaluation sheets to give other students feedback on their Twine games. Evaluate at least 2 games.
Turn in printed rules for your board/card games and make sure you’ve uploaded all updated files to thegamecrafter.com website, and proofed them
Assignments
Have a nice holiday!
Classroom
Tuesday
Look at any work that’s been done on ads
Finish up your ads for Thursday
Thursday
Complete your ads and show them to the class
Please remember to turn in all the book chapters
Assignments
Have a nice holiday!
Classroom
Beginning & Advanced
Presentations
Check out this article
Present your finished website to the class
Remember to transfer your website to a new location before the end of the year, if you want to keep it. The easiest thing to do is get a Siteground account and have them transfer it for you
Assignments
Have a nice holiday!
Classroom
Monday
Presentations
Cognitive drawing exercise look here
Continue working on your animated scene. We have 3 classes left, including this one
Wednesday
Presentations
Cognitive drawing exercise look here
Please bring in your flip book animations on Monday so we can check them out
Watch 12 Principles of Animation video: 12. Appeal
Work on animated scene
Assignment
Finish your animated scene for Monday
Classroom
Monday
Presentations
We will have a shorter-than-normal class today, due to a student tour I have to give tonight
Look at animatics, first drafts, final drafts
Extra credit project: tell a story using only existing media – video, graphics, audio, etc.
Finish & turn in book chapters
Wednesday
Presentations
Look at animatics, first drafts, final drafts
Extra credit project: tell a story using only existing media – video, graphics, audio, etc.
Finish & turn in book chapters
Assignment
Finish ad and all book chapters by Monday the 16th
Classroom
Presentations
Look at final projects and listen to music
Assignments
Have a nice break!
Classroom
Presentations
Discuss this article
Work on finishing your music and your team project
Reminder: Potluck at my studio Monday, Dec. 9th at 6pm, 326 S. Wilmot Road .
Assignments
Learn how to use GarageBand to make music
Work on Project 3
Classroom
Monday
Presentations
Talk about this
Look at animatics, first drafts
Move on to the next step – final draft
Wednesday
Presentations
Talk about this
Look at animatics, first drafts
Make sure to get book chapters done by the end of the semester
Assignment
Work on Superbowl ad
Finish the book chapters and turn in your work to the Google Drive folder
Classroom
Monday
Presentations
Cognitive drawing exercise look here
Review how to add sound effects and music to animation, and where to get it (Flashkit.com , Bensound.com )
Continue working on your animated scene. We have 5 classes left, including this one
Wednesday
Presentations
Cognitive drawing exercise look here
Watch 12 Principles of Animation video: 11. Solid Drawing
Watch Miyazaki video
Work on animated scene
Assignment
Continue working on your animated scene
Classroom
Beginning
Presentations
We have two classes left, including this one. On the last day of class (next week), please present your website to the class and discuss how you created it and why you made the decisions you made
Look at student sites and see what content has been uploaded. Discuss problems and questions
Advanced (4:30pm)
Look at website content uploaded
Work one-to-one with students
Assignments
Beginning
Continue to insert content/do layout on your WordPress website
Advanced
Continue putting your text and image content into WordPress
Classroom
Tuesday
Look at remaining team project file
Project 4 – pitch your ideas to the class, if you have not already
If you have pitched your idea, work on your ad, and share with us any rough ideas on which you are working
Thursday
Project 4 – pitch your ideas to the class, if you have not already
If you have pitched your idea, work on your ad, and share with us any rough ideas on which you are working
Assignments
Do the next chapter in the book, upload your work to the Google Drive
Work on Project 4
Classroom
Presentations
We have two classes left – this one, and the one next week
Check in with each team to see how they are doing on updating their board game and providing me with a printed set of rules
Check in with people on Twine game – complete it for next class, and bring it in, so we can test it out
If you have time (extra credit project) . once finished with the Twine game, work on getting your game into Tabletop Simulator
Demo how to import games into Tabletop Simulator
Here is the Tabletop Simulator Wiki
Here is the Tabletop Simulator Knowledgebase
Where to find the card deck templates on your computer
Steam is on the class computers, so you should be able to download it. The cost is $20, so perhaps you can split that between the members of your team
Assignments
Make final changes to your board/card games and upload to gamecrafters website and give me a printout of the rules
Finish Twine game
Put your board/card game into Tabletop Simulator
Classroom
No class – Happy Thanksgiving
Assignments
Make final changes to your board/card games and upload to gamecrafters website and give me a printout of the rules
Work on Twine game
Classroom
Tuesday
Look at remaining team project file
Project 4 – pitch your ideas to the class
Criteria for judging ideas:
Will it sell?
What is the Unique Value Proposition?
Who will buy it?
Why?
Where will they get it?
How will they get it?
How is it positioned against the competition?
What’s the hook?
When will they buy it?
Will it be a legacy product?
Work on Project 3: Team Project
Thursday
No class – Happy Thanksgiving!
Assignments
Do the next chapter in the book, upload your work to the Google Drive
Work on Project 4
Classroom
Beginning
Presentations
Look at Singularity dating app
Talk about App Design Class next semester
Discuss the Contract for the Web
Question: how many students think they could create a WordPress website in the future, if asked?
Talk about creating a website from soup to nuts:
Domain name, DNS
Web hosting
WordPress 1-click install
Using W3Cschools as a coding resource
SEO, all-in-one SEO
Look at student sites and see what content has been uploaded. Discuss problems and questions
Advanced (4:30pm)
Look at website content uploaded
Work one-to-one with students
Assignments
Beginning
Continue to insert content/do layout on your WordPress website
Advanced
Continue putting your text and image content into WordPress
Classroom
Monday
Presentations
Cognitive drawing exercise look here and here
Continue working on your animated scene
Wednesday
Guest lecture: How to bring animated characters into the Unity game engine
Cognitive drawing exercise look here
Work on animated scene
Assignment
Continue working on your animated scene
Classroom
Monday
Presentations
Look at animatics
Move on to the next step – first draft
Tutorials we can do when we have time:
Graph Editor
Create Grungy Effects
Tutorials:
Add Rain to Video
Add a Glitch Effect
Work on Team Project
Wednesday
Guest lecture: How to import 3D models into After Effects
We’ll talk about this next week
Work on assignment and book chapters
Assignment
Work on Team Project
Work on the next chapter in the textbook and turn in your work to the Google Drive folder
Classroom
Presentations
Sweet Child of Mine created on GarageBand
Every student needs to create a piece of music that is between 2-5 minutes long (64 measures at 120 bpm) and save it in their Google Drive as a .mp3 file
Discuss where teams are with their projects and figure out a deadline
Reminder: Potluck at my studio Monday, Dec. 9th at 6pm, 326 S. Wilmot Road .
Help individual students with music questions
Assignments
Learn how to use GarageBand to make music
Work on Project 3
Classroom
Monday
Presentations
Talk about your storyboards and move on to the next step – animatics
Tutorials we can do when we have time:
Graph Editor
Create Grungy Effects
Tutorials:
Add Rain to Video
Add a Glitch Effect
Work on Team Project
Wednesday
Presentations
Look at any finished animatics
Work on animatics, then the next step is a first draft
Tutorials we can do when we have time:
Graph Editor
Create Grungy Effects
Tutorials we can do if we have time:
Add Rain to Video
Add a Glitch Effect
Work on Team Project
Assignment
Work on Team Project
Work on the next chapter in the textbook and turn in your work to the Google Drive folder
Classroom
Monday
Presentations
Cognitive drawing exercise look here
Look at any finished personality walks, story write ups, and storyboards Note: if you haven’t finished your storyboard, it’s time to move on to working on the final animation
Continue working on your animated scene
Wednesday
Presentations
Cognitive drawing exercise look here
Watch 12 Principles of Animation video: 11. Solid Drawing
Do a solid drawing exercise
Continue working on your animated scene
Assignment
Continue working on your animated scene
Classroom
Tuesday
Presentations
Look at work that’s been done on team projects
Discuss Project 4: Idea Pitch
Come up with an idea for a new product or service that you believe you can sell. It can be related to an existing product, but with a new twist. For example, a baseball cap that folds out into a raincoat, or a set of molded plastic pieces that snap onto your tennis shoes to make them look like expensive office shoes
Devise an advertisement for the product or service
Pitch your idea to the class. We will give you feedback on the product and planned advertisement. The criterion for judging the success of the ad is if we, as individuals, would buy it (we’ll be acting like a focus group). You may have to make some tweaks to your idea before we say we will buy it. Once the class is sold on your idea, create the ad. Remember to use the selling points that convinced the class to purchase it
Work on Project 3: Team Project
Thursday
Presentations
Project 3 due – look at and comment
Work on Project 4
Assignments
Do the next chapter in the book, upload your work to the Google Drive
Finish Project 3: Team Project and start work on Project 4
Classroom
Presentations
Learn how to install Twine from a flash drive,
Note: the introduction to music keyboards and Garageband will happen in a couple weeks
Finish your updates to your board games and upload changes to the gamecrafter.com website. Print out a set of final rules and give them to me.
Work on assignment: create a Twine game as individuals or small teams
Next week: Game Analysis: Catan
Look at the actual game. Talk about its pros and cons
Look at its history, sales, and impact
Discuss this question: what is it that makes this game so successfull
Assignments
Continue to read chapters in textbook
Make final changes to your board/card games and upload to gamecrafters website and give me a printut
Work on Twine game
Classroom
Presentations
If you weren’t here last class, please sign up for end-of-the-year potluck party at my studio, Monday, Dec. 9th at 6pm, 326 S. Wilmot Road . (ask me for the sign up sheet)
Discuss how to music that goes with different types of visuals. Listen to some tracks from Bensound then discuss how to make:
Short, sharp – horror – discordant. Notes that are close together or in strange intervals. Psycho , Jaws
Long, synth-string washes – contemplative – Vangelis – Chariots of Fire
Upbeat percussive songs – rocking. – Reggae – major chords
Mid-tempo, slice of life music – life itself – acoustic guitar – arpeggios
Quick and dirty video game music – conjures up a time period – 8 bit music
Assignments
Learn how to use GarageBand to make music
Work on Project 3
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Instructor: Greg Loumeau