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[edit] DMS 462/562 - Game Design
[edit] Course Info
When: Monday/Wednesday 9:00 am - 10:50 am
Where: CFA 235
Instructor: Dave Pape
e-mail: depape at buffalo.edu
Office: CFA 250
Office hours: Mon/Wed 11-noon
List of events, news, resources, etc
[edit] Assignments
[edit] Project 3 websites
- La Resistencia
- Haunted House
- Space Race
- Brawl Starz
- Cyber Hunter
- The Four Worlds
- Not Comic Con
- UB Tour Guide
[edit] Project 2 websites
[edit] Schedule
reading | topics | project | games | |
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Aug 28 | Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQvWMdWhFCc | Yut Nori, 9 Men's Morris, Fox & Geese, Oware | ||
Aug 30 | Chapter 1 | Early board games | project 1 assigned | various commercial board games |
Sep 6 | Chapter 1 | Early board games | playtest project 1 | |
Sep 11 | Chapter 2 | compare/contrast games | Monopoly & The Landlord's Game | |
Sep 13 | project 1 due
form teams for project 2 | |||
Sep 18 | Chapter 6 | Train | teams | Diplomacy |
Sep 20 | brainstorming | playtest project 2 | ||
Sep 25 | Chapter 7 | paper prototyping | ||
Sep 27 | playtest project 2 | Space Invaders | ||
Oct 2 | Chapter 3 | players, objectives, procedures | Mastermind, Scotland Yard | |
Oct 4 | rules, resources, objectives | playtest project 2 | ||
Oct 9 | Chapter 4 | Pirate's Code presentation | Pirate's Code [1] | |
Oct 11 | flow, dramatic arc | project 2 due | ||
Oct 16 | Chapter 5 | project presentations | ||
Oct 18 | systems & economies. | Hamurabi | ||
Oct 23 | wargames; identifying systems | Alexander | ||
Oct 25 | Chapter 8 | prototyping tools; digital interfaces | start project 3 | |
Oct 30 | Chapter 14 | design documents; one-page designs [2] [3] | ||
Nov 1 | kanban boards | playtest project 3 | ||
Nov 6 | Chapter 9 | playtesting | Passage [4] | |
Nov 8 | playtesting scripts | playtest project 3 | ||
Nov 13 | Chapter 10 | formal playtest w/ outside recruits | ||
Nov 15 | functionality, completeness | playtest review | Darfur is Dying, Cockfight Arena, Johann Sebastian Joust | |
Nov 20 | uncertainty | |||
Nov 27 | Chapter 11 | "interesting decisions" | The Artist is Present [5], Cookie Clicker [6] | |
Nov 29 | sources of fun, fun-killers | playtest project 3 | Master of Orion [7] | |
Dec 4 | ||||
Dec 6 | links |