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September 24, 2008
Week 6 Assignments
1. Look at your ATLAS Table of Contents/Format and consider what portion of your world you will be able to successfully build/present this semester. Brainstorm concrete production tasks to complete this semester. Choose 4-5 tasks/models/areas to complete by the workshops later this semester. (Remember that the workshops are sessions for you to present a rough but cohesive "draft" for evaluation and feedback allowing you to iterate by the end of this semester.) Schedule yourself to complete them in rough draft form by, worst case, October 26th (if you are in the first group, subsequent Sundays for subsequent groups). We will assign a presentation schedule for the workshops next week. Note that these tasks are self-defined and in addition to any class exercises or tasks I might assign related to your worlds. This is not an ephemeral assignment; post a concrete list with dates.
2, Start thinking about the visual look and feel of your world. If you have already chosen a style or genre, begin to sketch in it. If you are experimenting with visual style, begin by combing through printed or digital media and making a collage out of collected snippets representing color/texture/style, etc. Post a visual representation of your collection/sketches.
3. Next week we will be discussing games and game space. Please read the following articles, and submit any other postings or thoughts you’d like to contribute to the group before the discussion.
Art of Contested Spaces by Kurt Squire Henry Jenkins
Imaging Gameplay - The Design and Construction of Spatial Worlds by Bernadette Flynn
Also:
Torus and Klein Bottle Games.
And He Built a Crooked House by Heinlein on SCIFI.com
Posted by pweil at September 24, 2008 2:05 PM