2.0 field Focus
2.0 field Focus
Design and development studio course focused on the creation of projects (games, applications, websites, video, etc.) that can take a wide variety of forms, from physical games to virtual reality.
The Game and Project Design Studio courses are within the Master of Arts in Media and Information at Michigan State University. You can find out more at gradstudies.mi.msu.edu (external site)
You have the opportunity to create your game or project in collaboration with other students in this course. You each have unique skills which can be an asset to the creation of other student's games or projects. After we get to know each other more, you may find shared interest in a topic such as climate change or park rangering. So for example a game design student might have ideas of how to make that topic more engaging through game and the use of entertainment strategies.
You may collaborate with people outside of this course. They could be undergrad students, masters students, professors, or outside collaborators.
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Training in ways of understanding how humans interact with computers. Career paths include: users experience researcher, designer, analyst, usability tester, interaction designer, information architect, web application front end developer.
Game studies and design looks at the impacts of games not only for entertainment but also how they may be made to aid education, information dissemination, and even health applications. This is a "studio" focused area with a production of media products and collaboration with peers within the concentration and with undergraduate students interested in working on these various forms of Storytelling media.
You are interested in current theories and ways of studying media and information, both in the US and from a global perspective, in order to inform research, policy making, and preactice. You may be seeking to pursue doctoral level study or to use new media and information for buisness, government, nonprofits, and society as a whole.
You are gearing your studies towards the use of games in education, therapy, and other professional applications. Coming from diverse backgrounds such as industry professionals, fortune 500 and small business professionals in many different fields, museum designers, corporate trainers, university professors, and K-12 teachers. You have an interest in serious games and a desire to add additional knowledge and skills in this important domain.
You are at the intersection of the social sciences, humanities and technology. You develop and apply transformative knowledge about all media systems, society and evolving information and communication technologies.
You will use your skills that you already have to create a game or project. This may be a one semester or a two semester project depending on your area of focus.
Below is the list of production processes that would be appropriate for each type of student. Click the arrows to expand the topic. Each links to the production processes that you will use for this course and the following course, Game and Project Design Studio II. Choose one production process.
App Prototype (2 semester) a continuation and completion of
Game Mod 3+ Deliverables (these can be continued into a second semester) (for those who have art experience)
Game Mod 3+ Deliverables (these can be continued into a second semester) (for those who have art experience)
Game Mod 3+ Deliverables (these can be continued into a second semester) (for those who have art experience)
App Prototype (2 semester) (for those who have UX/UI experience)
Find out how to connect to our course Discord.
Include the following in your post:
Your name (if you are using a nickname on Discord)
What your focus is in the program
What type of project you are interested in creating
What topic or general idea that you would like to pursue
If you are open to collaborate, (this may surprise you, you may see that someone else is interested in working on a topic which is very interesting to you.)
Share your skills that you can bring to the team.
Review each others ideas there and comment to see if there may be opportunities to collaborate.