Final Reflection Essay December 12, 2024 Before taking this class, I thought I was fairly well acquainted with the principles of game design. I had taken 247G, after all, and…
P3: Reflection November 25, 2024 Developing Cooking Pals proved to be much more difficult of a challenge than I initially anticipated, especially when it came to designing and modeling…
Mind Map + Writeup: Working With System Dynamics November 12, 2024 Our game is centered around the system of managing a high-end restaurant. Day after day, they work with their team of animal cooks to…
P3: Tiny playable prototype November 7, 2024 Our team developed a very minimal prototype for the game The Purrsuit of Happiness, a survival game about fulfilling Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as a…
P2 Reflection November 3, 2024 For much of my life, I’ve been a great lover of the IF game genre. I played all of the original Choice of Games…
P2: The Future We Deserve November 3, 2024 The Test GAME LINK – PASSWORD: cs377g Game Overview At its highest level, my game is, as the name suggests, about a Turing…
October 27, 2024 The Rhetoric of Video Games by Ian Bogost Notes The reading captured many of the ways video games can be used to represent…
P2: Tiny Playable Prototype October 16, 2024 I decided to switch paths narratively today, meaning there was less for my current game to playtest during class. However, I did get valuable…
P2: Map, premise, project plan October 16, 2024 P2: The Turing Test Premise: This game takes place in a world where artificial intelligence models have become near-indistinguishable from human beings. You are…
P1 Reflection October 13, 2024 After taking 247G last year, I had a basic understanding of what making a game would be like, even if not specifically focused on…
Precision of Emotion: A New Kind “Fun” Approach in Educational Games Notes October 4, 2024 Precision of Emotion: A New Kind of “Fun” Approach in Educational Games Erin Hoffman @ GDC 2015 Raph Koster: “That’s what games are…
P1: Introducing Serious Games September 28, 2024 I played Stop Disasters, a game created by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). The game is about community preparation for…
Games, Design, and Play: Elements September 24, 2024 1. Identify the basic elements in a game of your choice (actions, goals, rules, objects, playspace, players). The game I chose to highlight is…
Final Reflection June 10, 2024 I decided to take CS247G during my senior spring because I’ve played a pretty good number of games. I’m no hardcore gamer, but I…
Critical Play – Play Like a Feminist May 27, 2024 Doki Doki Literature Club (DDLC) was released in 2017 by American game studio Team Salvato. Through its cheery marketing and design, it presents itself as…