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February 27, 2005
Reading: Chapter on prototyping from Game Design Workshop
Here is a zipped version of the file. Let me know if you have trouble downloading this.
Posted by tfullerton at 08:39 PM | Comments (0)
February 14, 2005
Individual Meeting Schedule
The individual meeting schedule for next week is:
Wednesday 2/23
11:00 Chris
11:30 Bailey
12:00 Jerry
12:30 Neil & Nina
Thursday 2/24
11:00 Nick
11:30 Charles
12:00 Garrett
12:30 Ted & Rob
The meetings will be in my office -- room G140, right around the corner from the classroom. If you get lost call: 310.985.1167.
If you need to change your meeting time, or decide to pair up with another person, please let us know via email.
Looking forward to hearing everyone's ideas!
Posted by tfullerton at 05:57 PM | Comments (0)
Settlers of Catan
For those of you who were asking me where to find Settlers, you can play the game online at MSN Zone.
You can also purchase the game at www.funagain.com. Other games you might look at if you really enjoyed this design are:
Carcassonne
Acquire
Union Pacific
Modern Art
Scotland Yard
Puerto Rico
I'm the Boss
Most of these can be found at Funagain or Amazon. Please post your thoughts about Settlers and these other games if you have a chance to play them!
Posted by tfullerton at 05:44 PM | Comments (0)
Reading Assignment -- Rules of Play: Social Play
Here is the reading assignment for this week: Chapter 28 - Social Play from Eric Zimmerman and Katie Salen's book Rules of Play. This is a great book on games; If you enjoy this chapter, I highly recommend purchasing the entire book.
(If you have trouble with the .pdf, remember to right-click and save it rather than just clicking on the link. Alternately, you can try this link to a zipped version of the file.)
Posted by tfullerton at 05:41 PM | Comments (0)
February 09, 2005
Sony Online Entertainment CCO Raph Koster Visits 482 Multiplayer Games Class
Raph spoke, among many other topics, about one of his favorite multiplayer games, Blokus, a "game about graph theory." Here he is demonstrating the game.
Posted by tfullerton at 02:06 PM | Comments (9)
February 03, 2005
Here are links to the PDF files for chapters 3, 4 and (most of) 9 from Raph's book. Please read these chapters - along with chapter 5 from the previous post - before Monday's class.
http://shufflebrain.com/usc/a-theory-of-fun-ch3.pdf
http://shufflebrain.com/usc/a-theory-of-fun-ch4a.pdf
http://shufflebrain.com/usc/a-theory-of-fun-ch4b.pdf
http://shufflebrain.com/usc/a-theory-of-fun-ch9.pdf
Posted by ajkim at 08:55 PM | Comments (0)
February 01, 2005
Reading for Monday's Class
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20041203/koster_01.shtml
This is a URL to a book excerpt -- Chapter 5 from 'Theory of Fun.' More chapters to follow tomorrow, in PDF format. Enjoy!
Posted by ajkim at 11:05 PM | Comments (0)