Week 1

General

• HIT DELIVERABLES ON TIME THIS TIME!!!

• No current real-world politics for the topic of games, except when depicted with fictional countries.

Devlog

• Make sure to maintain regular devlogs of projects.

• Show pictures and GIFs of work done to support devlog.

To do

• Choose a client brief to go with.

  • Chosen brief: Study Skills (Medium difficulty). See right.

• Start on Serious Game research report.

• Start on alpha prototype of Serious Game assignment if possible.

Handy tools

• Pixabay - Stunning royalty-free images & royalty-free stock. https://pixabay.com/ 

• Twine - An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. https://twinery.org/ 

• Yarn Spinner - The friendly tool for writing game dialogue. https://yarnspinner.dev/ 

Procedure Rhetoric Video Points

• Overcooked 2 presents an argument about the real world, that being "if you want to succeed, you must communicate efficiently."

• This is reflected in the gameplay, where you must communicate with your team member to be able to beat a level and get a high rating.

• E.g. kitchens in the game are set up inefficiently, forcing players to coordinate their actions; kitchens are ever transforming to hinder players from establishing fixed routines/roles.

• "Procedure" in procedural rhetoric is something that defines certain rules & constraints to allow and deny specific gameplay experiences.

• E.g. in Overcooked 2, you can move around but you can't jump over obstacles; you can throw raw food but not fried food. General examples is you can only cook and serve dishes in specific ways and not do stuff like shoot people.

• [FINISH VIDEO ESSAY]

9 Months Analysis

• XXXX

The End of Us Analysis

• XXXX

General

• Serious game: making a serious/educational interactive game. Follow brief document but use game design skills to make it interesting.

• Big part to look at in brief document: project objectives. This is mainly what the client wants.

• Mainly submitting documents, learning journal is assistance to marking.

• Make sure to check word counts for documents.

• Do not start games until research document is done (applies to both games).

• Client pitch is due in week 4 after group is assembled.

Presentation Notes

• ChatGPT is now less accurate, make sure to fact check everything when using it and make sure to reference everything.

• Scholarly reference must be by scholars; experts in the field who usually work at universities doing research.

• "Peer reviewed" sources are sources that are vetted by other scholars before publication.

• A scholarly reference looks scholarly if it:

  • Is written in academic language;

  • has authors with academic credentials;

  • has an abstract; and

  • has an extensive list of references.

• GDC presentations are authoritative sources, not scholarly sources.

• Tutorials are not scholarly references supporting academic research. Only use them as resources for practical project development.

• APA7 referencing is not mandatory for the online devlog, but is for the submitted devlog document.

• Structure your paragraphs. A standard structure includes:

  • Topic sentence;

  • Evidence/support;

  • Analysis with example; and

  • Conclusion.

• Make sure to have paraphrasing in research document before including quotes.

Useful Tools

• ChatPDF - Use this to fact check your work.