Final Reflection – maya June 6, 2025 Before this class, I never really saw myself as a “gamer.” I’ve played some casual games here and there, but I always thought game…
Critical play – play like a feminist May 30, 2025 One Night, Hot Springs is a short and sensitive visual novel that lets players step into the shoes of Haru, a young transgender woman…
Critical Play – Games of Chance and Addiction maya May 23, 2025 In playing two online games, Blackjack (on the Washington Post’s platform) and Hay Day (a mobile farming simulator by Supercell), I explored how randomness…
Critical Play – Puzzles – The Room May 8, 2025 I played the mobile game The Room by Fireproof Games. The game is for users 10+ who love escape rooms and puzzle mysteries….
P2 Concept Doc – Team 11 May 6, 2025 Our concept doc was made in Google Slides Concept Doc slides here are our individual posts: cole – https://mechanicsofmagic.com/2025/05/04/checkpoint-1-concept-doc-individual-deliverables-cole/ barney – https://mechanicsofmagic.com/2025/05/03/checkpoint-1-concept-doc-individual-delivarables/…
Checkpoint 1 – individual May 4, 2025 Thinking art deco travel poster theme for each landmark someone visits on the scavenger hunt, which is just a normal map maybe tagged with…
Team norms: Team 11 May 2, 2025 P2 Members: Barney, Cole, Maya, Jess Team Norms Try to be on time for class, meetings, etc. Being open to scheduling or the…
Escape room critical play: Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery May 1, 2025 developed by Kiary Games Ltd., is a mobile puzzle game that combines the logic of escape rooms with the immersive qualities of interactive storytelling….
Walking Simulator Critical Play April 25, 2025 I chose to play babbdi, it tells the story by forcing the player to move through and explore an eerie, unsettling world where everything…
Competitive Critical Play April 15, 2025 I played Nacho Stack, which is a tabletop game created by professor puzzle games a UK based game designer and manufacturer of games and…
Sketchnote – Game Design Patterns for Building Friendships April 14, 2025 Sketchnote 2 made with notability!
Critical play – we’re not really strangers April 10, 2025 I played the mobile version of we are not really strangers that was shared in the slack chat. This is originally a card game…
Short ex. Prototypes – Maya April 9, 2025 How might we design the prompts such that the game actually work with everyone’s household items?1. This is important to answer because if we…
Maya’s sketchnote 1 April 7, 2025 what games are and aren’t sketch notes. I used ipad and notability!
MDA & 8 kinds of fun Maya Avital April 7, 2025 Growing up, my little sister and I used to spend our free weekend mornings playing Indiana Jones Lego games on the Xbox. We did…