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[edit] DMS 462/562 - Game Design

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

	reading	topics	project	games
Aug 28		Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQvWMdWhFCc http://mediastudy.buffalo.edu/facilities/access-policy/		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