Classroom
Tuesday
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
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- 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
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
Assignments
- Work on getting your game to the next stage with your team
- Look at the next section in the textbook
Classroom
Tuesday
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)
Instructor: Greg Loumeau