| 8:00 - 11:00 a.m | Wednesday | 12/15 |
Which Film
Silent Hill
Super Mario Bros
Mortal Combat
Resident Evil
Tomb Raider
Show me some cool stuff on your blogs!
Play the X-Box 360
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Field Trip Today!
We are meeting at 10am in Anderson parking lot!
See you then and bring your quarters.
See you then and bring your quarters.
Monday, November 29, 2010
In Class tue Nov 30th
Video Games in Pop Culture
Video Ping Pong 1969
How Its Made!
Old School Atari Commerical
Game & Watch
Gameboy
Black Ops
Thursday Field Trip to the Mall!
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
In class mon Nov 23rd
Video Games in Pop Culture
Consider:
- Value
* At the moment Multiplayer games = high value
Call of Duty Black Ops largest income in entertainment history at $350,000 in 24 hours
- Transference
where else does the imagery or idea reappear in society?
- Marketability
Can or did the game become a franchise?
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
In class thur Nov 18th
Death in Video Games
The Grave Yard on iPod Touch/iPhone
Old School vs New School
Arcade Games
Galaxian
5 Min to Kill Yourself
Mountain Maniac
* get a partner to count the number of things you kill
* What did you Kill
Next Week Video Games in Pop Culture
Monday, November 15, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
In class Thur Nov 11th
Video Games in Pop Culture!
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Smallest NES controller
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Question for next week: Video Games and Death!
- How does your game reflect on Death?
Dragon Play Offs
Monday, November 8, 2010
In Class Tue Nov 10th
Questions about your first week putting 6 games through the process?
Video Games in Culture = Sex, Drugs, Pop Culture, Death, Politics, Religion, Education & ??????? found in and effected by Video Games.
The Handheld!
Lets Play
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
In class tue Nov 2nd
Did you check out the Sillybus yet?
Galaga recreated with tiles
Uploaded to Flickr via mata-leão.
The Personal Research Video Game blogs
- We need to assign each of you a specific video game to research. Show me your list of 3 games.
- We need to assign each of you a specific video game to research. Show me your list of 3 games.
You want to consider the game on many levels. Including but not limited to the following:
* Game Play
* Game Stlye
* Game Aestetic
* Fun factor
* Plot Storyline
* Technology/Systems the game appeared on
* Programmers / Game Company(s)
* Year the game was created and context in which it was created (ie. who was president, what major world events were taking place, what was the style/fashion of the time, popular movies, ect..)
* Context of an average individual within society while playing the game (see above)
* Places the game or it's icons appear in society outside of game culture (culture recycling)
- You need to make at least 3 posts a week to your personal video game blog. This is part of the research for this class. You need to search out information, site references and links for images, videos and information you find. You need to write thoughtful reflections on your finds.
Making a Blog!
- We use Blogger
- Get your personal research video game blogs connected to the class blog today.
check out some stuff:
San Francisco Video Game Art opening
the Art of the Game at the Smithsonian?
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
In class Thur Oct 28th
This is the class blog!
It is the focal point for all of our research and all information we collect will be connected to this page.
I will update this site within 24 hours of class. You should check this blog frequently, it is part of the participation grade!
Whats it all about?
We are investigating the role video games play in society and we are cataloging video games into the Video Game Genome Project
In class today
Pick your 3 games?
We need to make our initial blogs! You will each need a personal research blog which will be based on your specific game.
Video Game Database : the Video Games Genome Project
* a new way to define Video Games
- Lets look at the Categories
- Game Name
- System
- Genre
- Type
- Point of View
- Year Released
- Rating
- Image Box
- Image Screen Shot
- Review
- Wiki Address Link
Each of you needs a game system and access to games to complete this course.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
LAst Day of Class
Last Day of Class!
Bring in your Video Game data sheets
Bring in any video games you have of mine!
Friday, April 30, 2010
In Class Fri Apr 30th
Class Cancelled Today (friday 4/30)
We will meet again on Monday.
Play some of the games on Adult Swim between now and then for discussion on Monday!
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Class on Friday Mar 26th
We will not have class today!
Keep in mind!
* You should have 24 video games reviewed by now. Don't get too far behind.
* You should be deep within your research on your video game and should have a good set of blogs up by now about your findings
Sunday, March 14, 2010
In class Mon Mar 15th
Bring your 12 Video Game Data/Reviews with you to class for discussion.
We will meet in the lounge today!
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Database labels
Genre 1 & 2
Adult
Adventure
Career
Casino
Cops & Criminals
Cute
Fantasy
Flying
Gothic
Hobbies & Lifestyles
Horror
Kids
Military
Mystery
Music
Historical
Psychological
Racing
Recreational Sports
Romance
Sci-Fi
Spin Off
Sports
Super Heros
Urban
Western
Other
Type 1 & 2
Action
Arcade
Board games
Card
Dice
Education
Fighting
Hack & Slash
Massive Multiplayer Online
Plat-former
Puzzle
Point & Click
Sports
Shooter
Rail Shooter
RPG
Rhythm
Turn Based Strategy
Real Time Strategy
Survival
Simulation
Text based
Other
Perspective
2D
3D
POV
First Person
Fixed Camera
Isometric
Multi POV
Over the Shoulder
Side Scroller
Third Person
Top View
Player(s)
- single player
- co-op online
- co-op off line
- multi-player offline
- multi-player online
- split screen
Rating = Age Group
All ages
Children
Pre-Teen
Teens
Adult
Storyline
- Linear
- Circular
- Multi-Path Open World
- Multi-Path Selectable
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
In class Wed Feb 24th
Uploaded to Flickr via mata-leão.
The Personal Research Video Game blogs
- At this point, each of you has a specific video game that you are doing research on. You want to consider the game on many levels. Including but not limited to the following:
- At this point, each of you has a specific video game that you are doing research on. You want to consider the game on many levels. Including but not limited to the following:
* Game Play
* Game Stlye
* Game Aestetic
* Fun factor
* Plot Storyline
* Technology/Systems the game appeared on
* Programmers / Game Company(s)
* Year the game was created and context in which it was created (ie. who was president, what major world events were taking place, what was the style/fashion of the time, popular movies, ect..)
* Context of an average individual within society while playing the game (see above)
* Places the game or it's icons appear in society outside of game culture (culture recycling)
- You need to make at least 3 posts a week to your personal video game blog. This is part of the research for this class. You need to search out information, site references and links for images, videos and information you find. You need to write thoughtful reflections on your finds.
- Get your personal research video game blogs connected to the class blog today.
* We also need to define our database terms
check out some stuff:
San Francisco Video Game Art opening
the Art of the Game at the Smithsonian?
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Welcome!
This is the class blog!
It is the focal point for all of our research and all information we collect will be connected to this page.
I will update this site within 24 hours of class. You should check this blog frequently, it is part of the participation grade!
In class today
Did you pick your 3 games?
We need to make our initial blogs! You will each need a personal research blog which will be based on your specific game. We will then need a blog for each game system we review. This includes:
* Oldschool Handheld Games
* ATARI
* Magnavox Odyssey
* NES Nintendo Entertainment System
* SEGA GENESIS
* Super Nintendo
+ more as we go
Video Game Blogs & Database
- Game Name
- System
- Genre
- Type
- Point of View
- Year Released
- Rating
- Image Box
- Image Screen Shot
- Review
- Wiki Address Link
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