Games and Attention Economy : Vignette and Memoir games – Experimental Game Design: Postgaming

Indiepocalypse Now. Notes about the attention economy, time, gaming audience.

Assignment

You have to bring a proposal for each of the following prompts.
A proposal is: Title + One illustrated description or mock screenshot.
A prototype or proof of concept is recommended for proposals that based on idiosyncratic mechanics or visuals.

A game that can be played in 1 minute
A game meant to be played in a context that is still unconquered by play
A game exploring one simple interaction or verb
A game for the most specific audience possible
A game about a memory, a person, or an event that is meaningful to you

Game Vignettes

A vignette in literature is a short, vivid, and descriptive passage that captures a specific moment, character, setting, or mood, rather than focusing on plot development.

Some of the following games can be considered vignettes, some are toys, some other are more like poems.
Let’s play them in class. As your classmates play them, write down some impressions, associations, notes. What does it do? How does it operate?

The shape of Time

My Exercise (and everything by Playables)

The Graveyard

Succulent

Hard Lads (and everything else by Robert Yang)

Metamorphabet

Statues

A short trip (browser)