ICAT Playdate: Game Design and Game Studies

Term: Fall 2024

Date: October 25th, 2024

Time: 8:30am - 9:30am

Location: Community Assembly in the Creativity + Innovation District Living-Learning Community

Instructor: Phyllis Newbill

Presented By: Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT)

Description:

We are developing a transdisciplinary curriculum focused on digital games and interactive entertainment. The core areas focus on game logic and prototyping, game design components and systems, social, behavioral, and ethical dimension of games, game interfaces and user experiences, and game narratology and ludology. Bringing together the teaching and research of faculty all over campus, we are on the cusp of proposing a new minor and several new classes to be integrated in it. Five faculty co-taught the pilot of the introductory course under a new, experimental, module-based model.

Speakers:

• Avery J. Wiscomb;

• Dajana Nedic

• Emmy Waldman;

• Evan Lavender-Smith;

• James Ivory;

• Michael Hsiao;

• Sang Won Lee;

• Zach Duer;

• Michael Senters;

• Emmanuel Baah