Classroom

Tuesday

• New article: gamers with disabilities can now play more games
• Presentation: Andrew
• Article: peak attention for gaming is declining
• Article: game devs must form union
• Question: is Monopoly a game or a game platform?
• Question: which is more important: game aesthetics, mechanics, or dynamics?
• Chapter 1: The Basics (Challenges) – prep for quiz
• Meet with team to create a playable mock up of your game – we’re going to play them next Tuesday (Thursday is a holiday)

Thursday

• No class – Rodeo Vacation

Assignments

• Work on getting your game to the next stage with your team
• Look at the next section in the textbook

Classroom

Tuesday

• • Look at photos below and discuss game art, adult and other genres of games
    
    

    

    

    

    
    

    

    

    

    

    
    

    

    

    

    

    
    

    

    

    

    

    
    

    
  • Continue to discuss Chapter 1: The Basics (Challenges). Prep for quiz
  • Meet with team to create a playable mock up of your game

Thursday

• Dungeon & Dragons – Stranger Things Edition
• Picture of Dorian Gray people – check out Velvet Buzzsaw on Netflix
• Show how to download templates from the Gamecrafters website to make things like playing cards, then lay them out to be cut
• Do Tinkercad demo. Look at Sculptris
• Continue to discuss Chapter 1: The Basics (Challenges)
• Look at more sample games that were created
• Work on creating mock ups for play testing your games

Assignments

• Work on getting your game to the next stage with your team
• Look at the next section in the textbook

Classroom

Tuesday

• Talk about the final games created for the game jam: are you happy with the results? What would you change?
• Continue to discuss Chapter 1: The Basics (Challenges)
• Take a look at thegamecrafter.com website. Talk about limitations (board sizes, available tokens, cards, production deadline, etc. and budget – $50, plus tax and shipping)
• Meet with team to discuss whether you will continue to work on the game you made, or create a new board game to be published

Thursday

• Game design presentation dates have been posted here
• Talk about game design mock ups and how they can be created for play testing (100 hours of play testing for a real game)
• Link to check out some game design conferences
• Here is the online free 3D design software I mentioned, Tinkercad
• Here’s where you can get free 3D models online, Thingiverse
• You can upload files you want printed at the service bureau to this folder (you will need to request access from me to use this folder)
• Remember to fill out a form from the service bureau for your print
• Continue to discuss Chapter 1: The Basics (Challenges)
• Look at more sample games that were created
• Work on creating mock ups for play testing your games

Assignments

• Work on getting your game to the next stage with your team
• Look at the next section in the textbook

Classroom

Tuesday

• Discuss Ludology and  Ludemes
• Take a look at Ludum Dare (note: Ludum Dare is Latin for “to give a game”)
• Discuss Chapter 1: The Basics (Challenges)
• Look at updates to Game Jam
• Work with your team on Game Jam – due Thursday!

Thursday

• Discuss and make final changes to Game Jam. Take notes about what we discuss in class and make the appropriate changes
• Submit your projects today by going to this link and clicking the “Join Jam” button and following the instructions (you will need to sign up for a free itch.io account)
• Go through how to submit your files on itch.io

Assignments

• Game Jam 
• Look at next section in the textbook

Classroom

Tuesday

• Dynamics, Mechanics, Aesthetics definitions
• Consider using something like this template Game Design Document as a guide for creating your game summaries
• Talk about strengths and challenges of Game Jam  summaries
• For the four teams we formed last time – elect a team captain, pick a team name and let me know this information
• The Pima game club is called the Game Development Guild and their e-mail address is gamdevguild@gmail.com. They meet in this classroom. Contact them for meeting times
• Download and read Chapter 1: The Basics in textbook (Challenges). We’ll discuss it next week
• Time to work with team on Game Jam

Thursday

• High school students visiting. We will add a couple to each game design team today
• Design a simple card game which is a new take on an existing game. For example, “Go Fish” could become “Glow Fish” and the goal could be to form the strangest combinations of fish features (like a shark fin on a gold fish) possible (due to the fact that the fish live near a leaky nuclear power plant).
• To make your game: draw with colored pencils on index cards
• Work on Game Jam – due Jan. 31st

Assignments

• Game Jam – work on it with your team
• Read chapter 1 in textbook
• Write down the day your presentation is due

Classroom

• Introductions
• Syllabus
• Make a Google Drive folder called “gam101 your name” and share it with me: my e-mail address is gjloumeau@pima.edu
• Discuss presentations
• We need a note taker for this class – any volunteers? Pima will pay you $120 to take notes
• Cintiqs and pen checkout process
• Some board games are available in the library for reference
• Show board games made by the Gamecrafter
• Form four teams, with each team having a diverse makeup (some people who are good at graphics, ideas, organization, etc.)
• Explain Game Jam  assignment

Assignments

•  Check out this article and this one
• Look at this article about the history of board games
• Game Jam – come up with an idea you can quickly create with your team and create a draft version of your idea for the next class. The deadline to submit your game to the game jam is January 31st (Feb. 1st at 1am)