Ramsey's CSI 294 - SpTp Intro to Game Dev - Fall `19

• Toxicity, Gamers, As A Culture, Fixing it.
• Our Basic Game Elements: Players, Actions, Goals, Rules, Objects, Playspace, Context/Environment, Storytelling/Immersion
• Our Basic Game Design Tools: constraint, actions (direct/indirect), goals, challenge, skill/strategy/chance/uncertainty, decision-making and feedback, abstraction, theme, storytelling, context of play
• action-theory: beliefs, reactions, desires, intentions, actions, repeat - how player experiences evolves from above?
• Crampton-Smith - mental-model, feedback, consistency, intuitiveness, navigativibility --- and failure as a tool
• Player Types - (MUDS!) Achievers, Explorers, Socializers, Killers, add Experiencers
• idea speed-dating, noun verb adjective
• Game Design Values - Experience, Theme, POV, Challenge, Decision-making, Skill/Strategy/Chance/Uncertainty, Context, Emotion ... and ... story, aesthetics, accessibility, scope, progression, community (and community regulation)
• Video Game Genres
• Get either Visual Studios (PC) or Xcode (MAC) and then Get Unity
• Complete this tower defense unity tutorial: Unity Tutorial #1
• Pitch
• Journals
• Levels
• Group Roles
• Syllabus