Sneak Preview! Discovering Game: Game Design for Librarians

The October session of Discovering Game: Game Design for Librarians via Simmons College GSLIS Continuing Education has been CANCELED due to low enrollment. We’ll try to offer it again in March 2010 as a four-week course, which brings the price down a little; registration information will be available on the Simmons CE Workshops page.

To encourage people to sign up, and preview the course, we are offering the first week of Discovering Game for FREE! Participate by reading the article, playing the assigned game, trying the game design assignment, and sharing your thoughts on the google discussion group, Discovering Game.

Week 1 Content follows, thanks for playing along!

1. Introductions: Who are you? What games do you play? What is your experience with game design? Optional: Create an avatar and upload it to your profile.
2. Play Tetris for at least 15 minutes. What was the experience like? What did you like about the game? What didn’t you like?
   
3. Create a game with randomly assigned goals, tools & obstacles, as directed in Assignment 1. What were your items? What did you come up with? What was the experience like? Can you think of a variation on this assignment to use in a library setting?

• Understanding Games 1. http://www.kongregate.com/games/pixelate/understanding-games-episode-1
• Understanding Games 2. http://www.kongregate.com/games/pixelate/understanding-games-episode-2
• Handout: Avatar Creation