P2: Game of Stanford – Team 1 June 7, 2025 Game of Stanford🌲 Daphne Liu, Emma Wang, Abbie Maemoto, Hannah Yu — Team 1 Slice: Senior Year Artist’s Statement The Game of Stanford…
Final Class Reflection – Emma June 7, 2025 Before this class, I thought about games and play mostly only in terms of the experience of playing them. I had not once stopped…
Critical Play: Games of Chance & Addiction – Emma May 23, 2025 Brawl Stars is a game developed by Supercell and played on mobile with iOS or Android. Its target audience is primarily teens and young…
Critical Play: World Building – Emma May 16, 2025 Super Mario Bros, created by Shigeru Miyamoto in 1985, was published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It stands as one of gaming’s…
Sketchnote: Loops & Arcs – Emma May 13, 2025 A game that I love is Catan, a turn-based board game where players compete to build settlements and cities on an island composed of…
Critical Play: Puzzles – Emma May 9, 2025 Shifting Worlds, Shifting Paths, Shifting Minds: How Monument Valley Uses Puzzle Mechanics to Shape Player Experience Monument Valley, developed by Ustwo games, is a…
Individual Team Member Deliverable – Emma May 6, 2025 Evokes: Nostalgia, Joy, Excitement Moodboard Spotify Playlist! Potential Game Directions Direction 1 – Super Mario Party Inspired All players travel together, on a tandem…
Critical Play: Mysteries & Escape Rooms – Emma May 1, 2025 Undercooked, created by Omescape and available as a real-world escape room in the Bay Area, invites teams of 2–6 players, targeted toward high schoolers…
Project 1: Ladybug April 25, 2025 by Emma Wang, Nolawi Ayelework, Evan Hsu, and Ginelle Servat Artist’s Statement Ladybug is a social game that combines elements of investigation, deception, and…
Critical Play: Walking Simulators – Emma April 24, 2025 What Remains of Edith Finch, developed by the indie game studio Giant Sparrow and published by Annapurna Interactive in 2017, is a narrative-driven exploration…
Critical Play: Competitive Analysis – Emma April 17, 2025 The game of Spyfall is designed by Alexandr Ushan and published by Hobby World. It is a social deduction party game and its target…
What do Prototypes Prototype? – Emma April 10, 2025 Come up with 3-5 questions your various game prototypes might answer for P1. For each question, include a sentence or two about: Why is…
Critical Play: Bluffing, Judging and Getting Vulnerable… – Emma April 9, 2025 The game I decided to play was Quiplash, a part of the Jackbox Party Pack platform. This judging-style party game, created by Jackbox Games,…
MDA & 8 Types of Fun – Emma April 8, 2025 I love Codenames. It’s a fairly simple game, but I could play it for hours, whether it be with different groups of friends, people…