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Game Development. Goals of the Class. Game Development as an Interdisciplinary Art Understanding Roles in Development Understanding Different Tasks and Tools Game Demo for each Team Have Fun!. Structure. 10 sessions, each with 3 parts Lecture/Discussion Activities Lab. What is a Game?.
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Goals of the Class • Game Development as an Interdisciplinary Art • Understanding Roles in Development • Understanding Different Tasks and Tools • Game Demo for each Team • Have Fun!
Structure • 10 sessions, each with 3 parts • Lecture/Discussion • Activities • Lab
What is a Game? Rubik’s Cube
What is a Game? Yo-Yo
What is a Game? Baseball
What is a Game? • "A game is a context with rules among adversaries trying to win objectives." -- Clark Abt • "A game is a form of art in which participants, termed players, make decisions in order to manage resources through game tokens in pursuit of a goal." -- Greg Costikyan • "A game is a system in which players engage in artificial conflict, defined by rules, that result in a quantifiable outcome." -- Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman, from their book. -from Rules of Play, by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman
Who can make games? • Programming • Art • Music • Design • Writing • Production • Quality Assurance / Testing
Reading about Game Design • Gamasutra.com • The Escapist (escapistmagazine.com) • Rules of Play, by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman • Fundamentals of Game Design, by Ernest Adams • Theory of Fun for Game Design, by Raph Koster