Home play:<\/strong> you are expected to play and discuss a variety of games. Every week, groups of 3 people are assigned one game to play at home. The group will then have a structured discussion in class and give a brief presentation to the rest of the class. Readings:<\/strong> being a studio class, Experimental Game Design is relatively light on theory. However you\u2019ll be required to read and respond to a pair of short texts at every unit.<\/p>\n Social media:<\/strong> like it or not, you can’t be a independent game maker\/artist today without self-promoting relentlessly on social media. You will be required to start an account on Twitter, follow the often obnoxious gaming “discourse”, and post entertaining work in progress of your projects.<\/p>\n Before becoming critical game designers we must become critical players.<\/p>\n Assignment:<\/strong> Mis-play a game of your choice by acting against the intention of the designer or by exploring\/exploiting the limits of its system. Try to achieve an aesthetic goal or provide insights on the game itself. Works\/case studies:<\/strong> Prepared Playstation, My Trip to Liberty City, Suicide Solution, Dead in Iraq, The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft, Pacifist Runs, Skate 3 Compilation, Breaking Madden, Magnasanti, Gold Farming.<\/p>\n Readings:<\/strong> A brief history of Virtual Reality. Virtual Reality demo day with Vive, Oculus, Samsung Gear, and Cardboard.<\/p>\n Readings:<\/strong> Still life mini-jam:<\/em> Unity intro, navigating in the scene, creating assets and game objects in engine, hierarchy, transforms, activate deactivate, pivots, basic components, external assets & import settings. Virtual Reality in sci-fi. VR as empathy machine. Robert Yang class visit. Readings:<\/strong> Sound visualizer mini-jam<\/em> , start & update, accessing components, time and counters, lerping & easing, prefabs and instantiation, collection types, importing animations and blendshapes, scene vs play mode: tweaking runtime.<\/p>\n Immersive Installation Art, an overview. Field trip to the Mattress Factory\/Hutte Royal.<\/p>\n Readings:<\/strong> Virtual installation mini-jam<\/em>: Input and controllers, rigidbodies and colliders, baking lights, Maya to unity workflow and troubleshooting, raycasting, texturing, more on particle emitters. <\/p>\n HomePlay:<\/strong> Digital Museum of Digital Art, La R\u00e9gion Decentralized, Unreal Estate, Paper Thin, Jeremy Couillard, The Out of Body Experience, Grinder-man’s Mirage, Exercise in Immersion by Marnix de Nijs.<\/p>\n Mid-semester project<\/strong>: Create a VR environment to be experienced from a fixed point of view that changes according to one input, analog or digital (switch, sensor, etc).<\/p>\n Exploration games, environmental storytelling, level design, notGames.<\/p>\n Homeplay:<\/strong> Readings (Two of the following):<\/strong> Audio story mini-jam<\/em> dynamic sound, canvas & UI elements, terrain, sprites, strategies for rapid asset creation.<\/p>\n Final project:<\/strong> Develop an artifact that (ideally) challenges the boundaries of play and gaming.<\/p>\n Homeplay:<\/strong> Progress to 100, Bounden, Brume, Strawberry Cubes, GeoGuessr, Casual Games for Casual Hikers, Earth Primer, Hohokum, Herstory, Become a great artist in just 10 seconds, Vesper 5, Loop Raccord, Tetrageddon, Dys4ia, How do you do it, One of them, Storyteller (prototype), Facade, Panoramical, Mountain, The Immoral Ms. Conduct, Viral, Triennale Game Collection, Super Sculptor, Le Petit Architecte, Nested (by Orteil), Spaceplan, Kentucky Route Zero.<\/p>\n Readings<\/strong> One author for each student. Prepared presentations. 10% Subversive Play Grading sucks but someone has to do the dirty job. Assignments and final project are graded according to the following criteria:<\/p>\n E. The student failed to deliver the assignment. * Attendance: three or more unexcused absences result in the drop of a letter grade.<\/p>\n * Absences: you are responsible for what happens in class whether you\u2019re here or not. Organize with your classmates to get class information and material that you have missed.<\/p>\n * Participation: you are invited, encouraged, and expected to engage actively in discussion, reflection and activities.<\/p>\n * Net addiction: you can exist for few hours without tweettering, facebooking, chatting, texting or emailing. Any device for mediated communication is banned during theory classes, crits and discussions. A 1% grade reduction will result from being found using them. * Assignments: late assignments are only accepted with permission of instructor. You lose 10% of your points per day late up to a max of 7 days late.<\/p>\n * Tardiness: 1st tardy = free. Collaborative work and projects also fulfilling other classes’ requirements are encouraged as long as it makes sense, and the other professors agree.<\/p>\n Official university language:<\/em> Take care of yourself. Do your best to maintain a healthy lifestyle this semester by eating well, exercising, avoiding drugs and alcohol, getting enough sleep and taking some time to relax. This will help you achieve your goals and cope with stress.<\/p>\n All of us benefit from support during times of struggle. You are not alone. There are many helpful resources available on campus and an important part of the college experience is learning how to ask for help. Asking for support sooner rather than later is often helpful.<\/p>\n If you or anyone you know experiences any academic stress, difficult life events, or feelings like anxiety or depression, we strongly encourage you to seek support. Counseling and Psychological Services (CaPS) is here to help: call 412-268-2922 and visit their website at http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/counseling\/<\/a>. 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\nOnce in the semester each student will prepare a more formal presentation about 3 assigned games by the same author(s). All the assigned games are relatively short, but some of them will have to be purchased (typically for less than $20).<\/p>\nUNITS<\/h1>\n
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<\/p>\nSUBVERSIVE PLAY<\/h2>\n
\nDocument your intervention through video and\/or screenshots.<\/p>\n
\nWhat\u2019s the Point If We Can\u2019t Have Fun? by David Graeber
\nPlay is by Miguel Sicart<\/p>\n![\"vrhistory\"](\"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/files\/2016\/08\/vrhistory.png\")
<\/p>\nVIRTUAL REALITY FROM VIRTUAL TO REALITY<\/h2>\n
\nArt in Virtual Reality.
\nWorks\/case studies:<\/strong> Walter Pichler, Haus-Rucker-Co, Coop Himmelblau, Jaron Lanier, Myron Krueger, Nicole Stenger, Diane Gromala and Yacov Sharir, Rachel Strickland and Brenda Laurel, Ulrike Gabriel, Char Davies,Michael Scroggins, Jeffrey Shaw, Carl Loeffler<\/p>\n
\nA Vintage Virtual Reality Interview by Jaron Lanier
\nVoices from a Virtual Past – An oral history of a technology whose time has come again<\/p>\n
\nMood change mini-jam:<\/em> lights, skyboxes, effects, materials, shaders, sounds, particle emitters, flares.<\/p>\n![\"vrscifi\"](\"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/files\/2016\/08\/vrscifi.png\")
<\/p>\nTHE DISCOURSE AROUND VIRTUALITY<\/h2>\n
\nWeird Reality Symposium.<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSecond Life tour with Daryl Kamen.<\/p>\n
\nColonizing Virtual Reality Construction of the Discourse of Virtual Reality, 1984-1992 by Chris Chesher
\nWhat Is Virtual Reality? by Brenda Laurel<\/p>\n![\"installation](\"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/files\/2016\/08\/installation-art.png\")
<\/p>\nIMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS<\/h2>\n
\nClaire Bishop – Installation art and Experience
\nMarcos Novak – Liquid architectures in cyberspace<\/p>\n![\"walking](\"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2016\/files\/2016\/08\/walking-simulators.png\")
<\/p>\nWALKING SIMULATORS<\/h2>\n
\nProteus, Dear Esther, The Stanley Parable, The Beginner’s Guide, Dinner Date, Little Party, Thirty Flights of Loving, SurrealistA, Exo, Gardenarium, Memory of a broken dimension (demo), Mirror Moon, ABZU, Bound, The Path<\/p>\n
\nTheory of the De\u0301rive and Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography by Guy Debord
\nAgency – from Hamlet in the Holodeck by Janet Murray
\nHow to do things with videogames \u2013 Transit \u2013 Ian Bogost
\nGamer Theory \u2013 Atopia (on Vice City) by Mckenzie Wark<\/p>\nPOSTGAMING<\/h2>\n
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\nApps, software toy, unidentified game objects. Game Art and Machinima. Game spectatorship.<\/p>\n
\nNot a manifesto; on game development as cultural work by Robert Yang
\nOne critical reading of your choice related to the final project.<\/p>\nHOMEPLAY<\/h1>\n
\nTale of Tales: The Graveyard, The Endless Forest, Bientot L’ete
\nRobert Yang: Cobra Club, Succulent, Hurt me plenty
\nVector Park: Feed the head, Windosill, Metamorphabet
\nBen Esposito+Arcane Kids: Pale Machine, Donout Country, Sonic Dreams Collection
\nPorpentine: High End Customizable Sauna Experience, Foldscape, Bellular Hexatosis
\nNicky Case: Parable of the polygons, Coming out simulator, neurotic neurons
\nKara Stone: Sext Adventure, Techno Tarot, Cyborg Goddess
\nStrangeThink: Mystery tapes, Joy exhibition,These Monsters
\nIncrepare: Mirror Stage, Slave of God, Shower Game
\nKlondike Collective: Mu Cartographer, Orchids to Dusk, Vignettes
\nThatGameCompany: FlOw, Flower, Journey
\nKeita Takahashi: Katamari Damacy, Noby Noby boy, Wattam, Woold
\nJason Rohrer: Sleep Is Death, Chainworlds, A game for someone
\nCory Arcangel: Super Mario Clouds, Bowling series, Super mario movie
\nPippin Barr: A Series of Gunshots, Art Game, Let\u2019s Play: The Shining
\nMario von Rickenbach: Mirage, Plug and Play, Drei
\nMichael Brough: 868-HACK, Corrypt, Vesper.5
\nLucas Pope: Papers Please, the Return of Obra Dinn (Demo), Republia Times
\nDavey Wreden: The Stanley Parable, The beginner’s Guide<\/p>\nGRADING<\/h1>\n
\n30% VR environment (Mid semester)
\n30% Final Project
\n10% Home play
\n10% Readings
\n10% Class participation and social media<\/p>\n
\nD. The game\/prototype doesn\u2019t work, has major bugs or is incomplete to a point that is impossible to get a clear idea of the user experience.
\nC. The game\/prototype is functional and complete in all of its parts. Both the technical execution and the concept are sufficient but not outstanding.
\nB. Good concept and excellent technical execution. Or, vice versa, excellent idea and good technical execution.
\nA. Outstanding concept and implementation. This is usually reserved to the top 10%.<\/p>\nPOLICIES<\/h1>\n
\nDuring the lab hours you will be allowed to network as long as your behaviour is not disruptive.<\/p>\n
\nLess than 10 minutes late = 1% grade reduction.
\nOver 20 minutes late = absence (unless justified).<\/p>\nStress Culture<\/h1>\n