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- 1. GDCV1845/GDSS1845 – Videogamesand arts Class 01 Introduction Class website http://gdss1845.wordpress.com
- 2. GDCV1845/GDSS1845 – Videogamesand arts Schedule Class introduction Teacher Students Facilities Class activities Assignments
- 3. Objectives The course aimsto provide an introduction to the study of games, videogames as an art form in particular, as well as understanding games as a business, a cultural phenomenon and a technological invention.
- 4. Benefits The game designprocess will be introduced as a way to enhance problem solving skills and creativity.
- 5. Requirements Students will berequired to design a new game using the principles learnt in class and at the same time to address social issues that related to their everyday life experience.
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- 11. Activity CONNECTING STORIES, aself-introductory game Have everyone divide into small groups of 6-8 people. Ensure each table has several post-it notes and pens. The goal of the game is to connect mini-stories in an interesting way. Each person must share at least one item that connects to the other mini-stories. The longer the chain of items that can be created, the better. Write down a few words on a post-it note to keep track of each part of the story. From https://www.icebreakers.ws/small-group/connecting-stories.html
- 12. Before we workon with videogames, we start with games. Before we start with games, we look into play. Definitions
- 13. Homo Ludens –Johan Huizinga (1872 – 1945)
- 14. What is PLAY? …afree activity standing quite consciously outside ordinary life as being not serious,… It is an activity connected with no material interest, and no profit can be gained by it. It proceeds within its own proper boundaries of time and space according to fixed rules and in an orderly manner. J. Huizinga Definitions
- 15. No profit canbe gained? Definitions
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- 17. What is PLAY? …itcreates no wealth or goods, thus differing from work or art. Roger Caillois Definitions
- 18. Differing from workor art? Definitions
- 19. Differing from workor art? Definitions
- 20. What is PLAY? Anactivity that is fun, voluntary, intrinsically motivated, incorporates free choices/free will, offers escape, and is fundamentally exciting. Brian Sutton-Smith Definitions
- 21. What is PLAY? Afree activity standing quite consciously outside “ordinary” life. Johan Huizinga Definitions
- 22. Second Life How manylives do you have ?
- 23. Properties of PLAY Voluntaryact Pleasurable Challenging mentally or physically Separated from reality Mary Flanagan Formal properties
- 24. Must play haverules? Definitions
- 25. What is aGAME? A form of art in which participants, termed players, make decisions in order to manage resources through game tokens in pursuit of a goal. Greg Costikyan Game vs. Play
- 26. Properties of aGAME? It is a system. It is artificial. It has players. It has conflict. It has rules. It contains a quantifiable outcome/goal, and ending state in which players can either be considered the winners or the losers. Properties
- 27. Man, Play andGames, Roger Caillois, 1961
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- 29. Types of game? Agôn– competition Alea – chance Mimicry – simulation Ilinx – vertigo Roger Caillois
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- 31. The equality ofchances is artificially created. A rivalry which hinges on a single quality, such as speed, endurance, strength, memory, skill, ingenuity, etc. Inevitably imbalances are negated or modified by drawing lots at the beginning, then by strict alternation of favored positions. Competition
- 32. Sustained attention Appropriate training Assiduousapplication Desire to win Competition
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- 34. Based on decisionindependent of the player, an outcome over which he has no control, and in which winning is the result of fate. Chance
- 35. Reveal the favorof destiny. The player is entirely passive. He risks his stake. Fair play lies in being compensated exactly in proportion to the risk involved. Result is necessarily uncertain and paradoxically must approximately the effect of pure chance. Chance
- 36. Negate work, patience,experience, and qualifications. Games of chance are not as important to children as to adults. Chance
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- 40. Temporary acceptance ofan illusion, then at least of a closed conventional, and in certain respects, imaginary universe. Becoming an illusionary character oneself, and of so behaving. Simulation
- 41. Children imitate adults,for example, with toy weapons and miniatures. Simulation
- 42. The basic intentionis not that of deceiving the spectators. It is only the spy and the fugitive who disguise themselves to really deceive because they are not playing. Simulation
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- 47. An attempt tomomentarily destroy the stability of perception and inflict a kind of voluptuous panic upon an otherwise lucid mind. Vertigo
- 48. Desire for disorderand destruction, a drive which is normally repressed. Kind of pleasure from the intoxication stimulated by high speed … Vertigo
- 49. Next, we moveto the very brief introduction of videogames. Videogames
- 50. O X O XX O O X Tic-Tac-Toe, Alexander Douglas (1952)
- 51. Tennis for Two,William Higinbotham (1958)
- 52. Spacewar, Steve Russell,1962 MIT
- 53. Spacewar, Steve Russell,1962 MIT
- 54. ADVENT, Colossal CaveAdventure, 1967
- 55. ADVENT, Colossal CaveAdventure, 1967
- 56. Magnavox Odyssey, RalphBaer, 1972
- 57. Programmable Logic for AutomaticTeaching Operations – an early computer network platform. He developed the ‘online’ version of the Spacewar. Image from http://www.classicgaming.com/ Spacewar, Rick Blomme, 1969
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- 59. Pong - Outdoorpong game with mobile phone interface Blinkenlights
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- 62. Game Boy Music,Haeyoung Kim
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- 65. Velvet Strike, AnneMarie Schleiner
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- 67. Adam, a real-timerendered film by Unity