Honors Options

"Description of Project (include details about the scope, form, and length of the project, including plans for assessment)"

Jon Bergen

A series of tutorial videos covering the usage of nanDECK to rapidly prototype card designs for testing, and to produce finalized, production ready assets that can be used in a finished game.

Deliverables: The series will be composed of 3-5 videos with a length of 10-15 minutes

1. The first video will be a brief overview of nanDECK, what it is best used for, what a user should know, and then jump right into how to make a prototype card. By the end of the first video, a viewer should be able to follow along and complete a deck of simple prototype cards for their game.

2. The second video should discuss in more detail various features of nanDECK, including the most up to date process for linking a Google Sheet instead of an excel sheet on the local disc. (This process has changed a few times, and many of the resources that currently exist to describe how to do this no longer work.) This video should function as an 'intermediate' lesson in nanDECK.

3. The third video should be an 'advanced' lesson which discusses some of the finer points of using nanDECK like exactly what the code created by the visual editor does, and how to edit that code to achieve a finer, more precise result. By the end of this video, a viewer should be able to produce a 'final build' of their card deck, which looks much nicer than the earlier prototype.

4-5. Because there is a lot of material to cover in nanDECK, I'd like to leave myself the option of 1 or 2 extra videos to discuss various things. nanDECK uses code to build cards, and having more time to explain nanDECK's unique syntax, and basic coding principles could help a lot to make the tutorial series more comprehensive and useful to viewers.

Deadline: 12/13/24

Aaron Guggenheimer

The Game Design honors project explores how interactive media and games are being used by zoos and related institutions to interact with the public. The student will explore the decision-making for examples, such as why the game was created and how it was developed. Additionally, board games with zoological and/or conservational themes will be described and discussed.

Deliverables:

The student will create a 3-to-6-minute video detailing the findings. One game will be created with zoology and/or conservation themes. The proposed game aims to find innovative ways to express current zoological research in board games to an audience of high school students while integrating Next Generation Science Standards. There will be a guide for High School teachers to integrate this game into their science curriculum.

Deadline: last day of the semester

Analyze Zoo Conservation themes in Games

Paper or video to show benchmarking and how zoos promote conservation using entertainment.

Potential benchmarks could include, Toronto Zoo AR experience, Seneca Park Zoo Linticular ASL experience, perhaps create the theme around a species species survival plan topic.

The personal game would be an example of what is missing in the concepts of the existing games.

Ethan Smith: Honors Option

Deliverables:

Sharing Knowledge with the full course about audio recording for game trailers or how to play videos.

- - Connect with Dr. Ryan Thompson on sound design tech at MSU and how our students can use it.
  - Presentation on the methods
  - Q & A table .5 hour.

Trailer Sound Design

Create Sound Design for one other team's game trailer (1 minute long max)

Deadlines to match course deadlines

Austin Whitis: Honors Option

Deliverables:

Create a How to Play a game video

Create one how to play video in addition to their own group and individual game's deliverables. This game will be determined by the professor and student toghther.

Sharing Knowledge with the full course about Tabletopia

Learn how to publish and upload games to Tabletopia, an online game platform for prototyping.
Teach, help and engage with other students with the publishing process to Tabletopopia once they are ready to upload their game.

"Date by which the project is to be completed"

Deadlines to match course deadlines: Mid Term and Final (04/26/24)

Talia Disney: Honors Option

Deliverables:

Design Game Assets in InDesign

Learn from professor multipage document methods for game production
Have access to InDesign in the Computer Labs (CAS 154 or Library Lab or other 2nd floor CAS computer lab)
Using InDesign create the multipage document for the cards being able to update the cards icons and text in a streamlined way
Create a video to teach students the process: when you work on this in the summer- then notify Susan

Sharing Knowledge with the full course about publishing a tabletop game on TheGameCrafter.

Learn from professor online publishing methods
Create a Video Presentation on the methods
Help students with optional publishing on TheGameCrafter by discussing file resolution

Deadlines to match course deadlines

Resources

Kevin Koch: Honors Option

Deliverables:

Finish Out Art and Design for Beetle Battle

- - Graphic Design
  - Artist
  - Deadline Midterm?
  - In tabletopia by final

Teach Tabeltopia

Make a presentation
Use the Free Tabletopia to explore adding a game to the system: Beetle Battle or another game that is voting on.

Deadlines to match course deadlines: Mid Term and Final

Honors Options: available projects:

Tabletopia

Determine when to Create unique foley specifically for the game or sourced creative commons sound for table top digital simulator such as Tabletopia. (The software has ability to add sound to every flip of a card, or other actions such as pulling items out of a bag. )
- - - 20 sound effects max
  - Create ambient or score sound design for the background music for an additional game.
    - 3 min music max

How to Play video

Create how to play video in addition to their own group and individual game's deliverables.

Agreement

"Student agrees to complete the above project by the specified due date. Student further agrees that if the project is not completed by the due date, no Honors Option credit will be given for the project unless special arrangements have been made in advance. Student agrees to notify Professor as early as possible if Student will not finish the Honors Option for any reason. Professor agrees that the merit of the project and/or the timeliness of its completion will not affect Student's course grade in any fashion. Professor agrees not to alter the requirements of the project after the signing of this agreement."

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