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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Overview of Rules, Play, Culture framework. Overview of course structure and assignments...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Presentation on the Gamelog and Game Ontology projects by Jose Zagal. First of two lectures on definitions of what is a game, an..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Discussion of definitions of what is a game, and what is play. Magic circle. Rules as limitations and affordances...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Qualities of Rules. Operational, constituative, and implicit rules. State machines. Emergence and Progression. Conway's Game of ..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Brief overview of capabilities of RPG Maker and Game Maker. Demos os Game Maker games. Brief discussion of Astro Boy...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Gives overview of Game Maker, then describes sprites, objects, events, actions, and rooms. Audio-only of in-class demonstration ..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Gives overview of goals of game ontology project, then provides a summary of important aspects of the gameplay rules tree...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Intended to be an overview of more of the game ontology project, but ended up just covering exam topics, and an overview present..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
A history of the design evolution of the genre of space shoot-em-up (Shmup) games. Also provides a description of why genre spec..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Overview of the design history of the genre of platform games. Explores Donkey Kong, Pitfall!, Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedg..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Provides an overview of the design evolution of computer role playing games. Guest speakers Matthew Group and Nate Emond...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Description of using the Game Maker room, view, port, and background concepts to create a scrolling starfield and steadily advan..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Describes key issues in creating a platform game using Game Maker. Lecture provides an in-depth discussion of collision detectio..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Discusses collision detection handling for platform games, and jumping onto a moving platform. All-in-one collision detection ha..
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
An overview of the notions of challenge and conflict in games. Also, a description of upcoming assignments and help sessions...
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