Mindmap + Response: Working with System Dynamics – Ellie December 15, 2024 Values, Arcs, and Loops in our P3 Game Values Our game, Cooking Pals, puts the player in the position of a restaurateur opening…
Final Reflection Essay December 11, 2024 Before taking this class, I had a decent understanding of game design and was used to working on larger teams for extended projects. My…
Final Reflection – Grace December 11, 2024 CS 377G is my first game design class as well as my first design class. Before taking this class, I never thought of the…
Games, Design and Play: Elements – Grace November 27, 2024 1. Identify the basic elements in a game of your choice (actions, goals, rules, objects, playspace, players). Game: Go Actions: placing pawns onto the board;…
ISPS: Reflection November 23, 2024 Before playing ISPS, I expected a systems game to focus heavily on strategy and interconnectedness, where success depends on mastering mechanics and managing resources…
P2: Reflection November 2, 2024 Before starting the IF game project, I had a basic understanding of IF as a format for storytelling, but I didn’t fully realize how…
P2: The Future We Deserve: The Road Not Taken November 1, 2024 “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” —Robert Frost,…
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 16, 2024 Changes Have a more definite ending that aligns with the character’s archetype Make big ideas tied to one person so the MC can have…
P2 Project Plan October 16, 2024 Map Premise Now, all food is artificially engineered and regulated by a single corporation, “NutriCorp.” The government has outlawed natural food production due to…
P1 Reflection October 12, 2024 Before working on “Roommate Beef,” I assumed that teaching games would focus on explicit educational content, like knowledge-based topics typically seen in learning environments….
Roommate Beef October 11, 2024 Roommate Beef Ana Nguyen, Thanh Tieu, Shirley Wei, Grace Xu Overview The name of our game is “Roommate Beef”. The intended player number for…
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…
Introducing Serious Games September 29, 2024 I played Stop Disasters, a game created by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). The game is about educating users how…
Introducing Serious Games September 27, 2024 I played Spent by McKinney. It’s a game about the reality of homelessness and economic insecurity. The game uses experience-based play, emphasizing the real-life…