Final Reflection Essay—377G December 11, 2024 Coming out of 247G, I thought I had a fairly adequate grasp of what makes an effective game from my own gameplay experience, independent…
Fight Or Flight—P4 December 11, 2024 Team: Butch Nasser, Haven Whitney See this post for the prior iteration of the game! Overview For our P4, we decided to refine EndangerEd,…
P3—Reflection November 24, 2024 With Cooking Pals completed, I’ve learned a lot about scoping and analysis of a team’s strengths and weaknesses. Throughout the design process, there were…
Cooking Pals—P3 T5 November 23, 2024 Team 5 – Gracielly Abreu, José Davila, Butch Nasser, Ellie Vela, Haven Whitney Overview/Artist’s Statement (Note that this game went through major revisions and…
Working With System Dynamics November 12, 2024 Hi-Res Link Here! In our P3 game, we are placing worker treatment by employers, as well as worker management, as a high value for…
P2—reflection November 3, 2024 For my IF game, I created a game that afforded fun through narrative structure. In my game, the player experiences a strong narrative above…
Circuit City—P2 November 3, 2024 Premise/Overview Welcome to Circuit City, the safest city in the world! You play as Casey Brooker, the young prodigy Chief of Police who helped…
The Rhetoric of Video Games October 29, 2024 (Hi-Res Link for Your Viewing Pleasure) From the article, I think the main takeaways for my game include the idea of procedural rhetoric sitting…
P2: Tiny Playable Prototype October 17, 2024 During class, I got to playtest with two individuals. For the first playtests, I mainly had core plot elements as narrative/options for the player…
P2: Map, Premise, Project Plan October 17, 2024 P2: Autonomous Police Bots Premise In a not-too-distant future, you live in Circuit City, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the implementation of autonomous police…
P1 Reflection October 12, 2024 Creating EndangerED was informative and fulfilling. After playing Epipen Tycoon, I was initially nervous that creating a “teaching game” would require preachy lessons, or…
EndangerED—P1 T1 October 11, 2024 Team 1: Asher Hensley, Butch Nasser, Haven Whitney Overview EndangerEd is a multiplayer board game intended for 2-6 players ages 13+. Players play as…
Introducing Serious Games October 1, 2024 To introduce Serious Games, I played Stop Disasters!, a game created by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). In Stop Disasters!, the…
Games, Design, and Play: Elements September 25, 2024 1. Identify the basic elements in a game of your choice (actions, goals, rules, objects, playspace, players). Game: Minesweeper Actions: In Minesweeper, players may…