Week 4

Activity: 

The Witcher: Assassins of Kings - my favorite part was picking up contracts and side quests, and running around in the woods hunting - thrill of the hunt

The Witcher: Wild Hunt; AC:O; Middle Earth: Shadow of War/Mordor - not hunter-killer wildlife games (feels too real)

LJ:

• discussion - I think the point of this is to teach us how to describe and assess games 

  • manufactured consent - when somebody controls all the information you perceive, and you develop a certain perspective from that info, they are manufacturing your consent 

  • e.g. film trailers that do not accurately represent the movie 

• we debated the definition of fun [see google dictionary definition] and the consensus is that fun and gratification are not the same thing. 

  • design intent 

  • expectations of games being fun 

• IMPORTANT: you cannot make something that everybody likes, it is not possible 

• 'sawtooth model' - the budget/sales from a game must never drop below that of the previous 

• we have to make sure that our games match our target audience's perceptions of what that game is or will be 

• introduced brief 2 

  • video essay at least 5 mins long for whole group (2.5 min each) 

  • the easiest way to make a good essay is to ask a nuanced question 

  •  try to prove yourself wrong - e.g. what assumptions did I make?