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Design Games

  • A course by Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Fall 2008 @ Georgia Tech, for questions contact mailto:ellendo@gatech.edu Registration: COA 8843 ED # 86538, also CS 8803 DG # 88003

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Design Games Member

Please add yourself in the Design Games Member page

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Class Schedule

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Start of Classes to Fall Recess

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Week 1 (8/19, 8/21): Introduction

  • 8/19 information, introduction of the class, origami making exercise - everyone can be creative, because everyone can make things!
  • Homework - create a personal profile page in the Design Games Member which include (1) your name, a picture of you, some background - same as what you said today or something else, your goals for this class, and (2) find one interesting game, did some research about it so you can present to people, write it up in your page, and (3) what game you would want to build for this class, don't worry, none-biding, you can either do it as individual game or as teamwork, (4) a couple interesting readings about games - theory, critiques, review, stories, etc that you like the class to read as a group.
  • 8/21 - presents and discuss (1) an interesting game, and (2) the idea of a game you want to build (including who, what, where, and how, maybe even when)

We will investigate what other space we can have to play games or have discussions.

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Week 2 (8/26, 8/28): Readings on Design and the Play Instinct

Reading to discuss on Tuesday 8/26

  • Rand, P, 1965 Design and the Play Instinct, in Education of Vision, ed. Gyorgy Kepes (George Braziller. 1965) (pp154-173) rand-play.pdf

Continue the sharing of 1 game you found interesting, and what game you would like to build.

Check out the 2 readings to discuss next Tuesday.

Reading to discuss on 9/2

  • The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds, by Kenneth R. Ginsburg for the American Academy of Pediatrics (2007) play.pdf
  • A study in play, pleasure and interaction design, Brigid Costello, Ernest Edmonds August 2007, DPPI '07: Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Designing pleasurable products and interfaces (76-91) media:p76-costello.pdf

8/26 Sharing games continued

8/28 Game Play at Klaus Bldg lounge

  • Playing Board games of Bonazah, Blokus, Set, Bendominoes, Thinkertoy and Blink on 8/28 - @ Klaus building 2nd floor lounge area to play games
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Week 3 (9/2, 9/4): Readings on Play categories and effect

9/2 discuss the games we played last week:

  • Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques Google Book
  • Thinkpak, a brainstorming card deck - by Michael Michalko web
  • The Bean Game - trading and politics game Bohnanza

Reading to discuss on 9/4

  • The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds play.pdf
  • A study in play, pleasure and interaction design, Brigid Costello, Ernest Edmonds August 2007, DPPI '07: Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Designing pleasurable products and interfaces media:p76-costello.pdf
  • Rand, P, 1965 Design and the Play Instinct, in Education of Vision, ed. Gyorgy Kepes (George Braziller. 1965) (pp154-173) rand-play.pdf

Next week - discussion and meeting in cyber space - check out the 3 readings... at Design_Games#Week_4_.289.2F9.2C_9.2F11.29:_Kids_play

  • Please each person contribute to at least 2 online games (more if fine) that you can be a tour guide, so we can schedule time for a *guided tour*
  • Meanwhile, please think about what projects you would like to work on - you can design a game (physical, virtual, hybrid) in any scale (board, card, room, building, urban, global scale), or study of a game (observations, critiquing, analysis), or a literature survey of types and genres ..
  • Be prepared to present your project (whether solo or in teams) on October 2nd, Thursday. ;-)
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Week 4 (9/9, 9/11): Kids play

Readings to discuss on Tuesday 9/9

  • Computer support for children's collaborative fantasy play and storytelling, Kimiko Ryokai, Justine Cassell, December 1999, CSCL '99: Proceedings of the 1999 conference on Computer support for collaborative learning CSCL99.pdf
  • Fullerton, Tracy, Jenova Chen, Kellee Santiago, Erik Nelson, Vincent Diamante, Aaron Meyers, Glenn Song, John DeWeese, "That Cloud Game: Dreaming (and Doing) Innovative Game Design" ACM Siggraph Video Game Symposium, Boston, MA, July 2006 - acm site
  • Escape Machine: teaching computational thinking with a tangible state machine game," Michael Philetus Weller, Ellen Yi-Luen Do and Mark D Gross, in Interaction Design and Children (IDC '08), Chicago, June 11-13 pdf

- if the link doesn't work, you will need to go to www.library.gatech.edu site, choose (find article) database and go to A for ACM digital library, login with your GT ID so you can search and access the article

Design and play a game with paper and pencil (or anything else you have around you) - can you do it silently?

Readings to discuss on Thursday 9/11

  • Read an excerpt of Everything Bad is Good for You excerpt
  • People, places, and play: player experience in a socio-spatial context, Yvonne A. W. De Kort, Wijnand A. Ijsselsteijn, July 2008, Computers in Entertainment (CIE), Volume 6 Issue 2 media:a18-de_kort.pdf
  • Wanna play dress up? IMVU
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Week 5 (9/16, 9/18) What are the ideas?

  • (start thinking and designing and building first prototype of your project)

9/16 discussion readings

  • Defining grief play in MMORPGs: player and developer perceptions, Chek Yang Foo, Elina M. I. Koivisto, September 2004, ACE '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology media:p245-foo.pdf
  • Interaction Forms and Communicative Actions in Multiplayer Games, by Tony Manninen, the International Journal of Computer Game Research, Volume 3, Issue 1 May 2003 online
  • Game over: learning by dying, Dimitris Grammenos, April 2008, CHI '08: Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, 1443-1452 media:p1443-grammenos.pdf

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  • Web 2.0 The Machine is Us/ing Us (4:32) video
  • The Second Life Bed Case (3:01) 2007 newsclip
  • Virtual Sex in Second Life (4:21) steamier side newsclip
  • The Flamming Deeps - Lord of the RIngs (1:53)trailer
  • Spores - 3 2006 B-Roll - editor (3:46) spores
  • Official Trailer 2006 (1:31) trailer
  • Spore E308 Trailer 2008 (2:30) 2008
  • 1 min TV ad (1:01) ad
  • Simulating Success: SL-to-RL Border Guard Training Simulation Improves

Test Scores By 28% article

  • Terrorists in War of WorldCraft article
  • War on Terror, the board game game

9/18 discussion readings

  • Educational video game design: A review of the literature, in The Journal of Applied Educational Technology, JAET Vol 4, No 1, 2007. Mary Jo Dondlinger, dondinger.pdf
  • Mitchel Resnick, Amy Bruckman, Fred Martin, 1996, Pianos not stereos: creating computational construction kits, Interactions, Vol 3, issue 5: 40-50 pdf

Optional Readings

  • Gregory D. Abowd, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, 2000, Charting Past, Present and Future Research in Ubiquitous Computing, in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction [1] 7(1):29-58

!! Important !! Please go through the IRB training and obtain a certificate if you plan on testing or observing people

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Week 6 (9/23, 9/25): What are the challenges?

9/23 - please read the two games - media:WesternTerritory.pdf and media:EasternTerritory.pdf and bring game pieces (either paper sticker, washer, lego, paper clips, whatever you can find) to class.

We will play both games on 9/23 Tuesday

9/23, discuss the following papers

  • Hesham M Kamel and James A Landay, (2002) Sketching images eyes-free: a grid-based dynamic drawing tool for the blind, ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 33-40 gt library acm site
  • Svetlana Yarosh, Kevin Huang, Ian Mosher, Marisa Topping (2008) CHI extended abstract, Works in Progress 3249 - 3254 PlayWare

or

  • Kevin Huang, Jesse Smith, Kimberly Spreen, Mary Frances Jones, 2008, Breaking the Sound Barrier: Designing an Interactive Tool for Language Acquisition in Preschool Deaf Children, in Interaction Design for Children - idcpaper.pdf

9/25, discussion of the following readings

  • N John Habraken and Mark D Gross, 1988, Concept Design Games, in journal of Design Studiesm Vol 9, No 3, July 150-158 - media:ConceptDesgnGames.pdf
  • Do, Ellen Yi-Luen and Mark D Gross, (2007) Environments for Creativity, a Lab for Making Things in Creativity and Cognition, 27-26, ACMi SIGCHI, gt acm site
  • Georgia Leigh McGregor, Architecture, Space and Game Play in World of Warcraft and Battle for Middle Earth 2 pdf

Optional

http://tangible.media.mit.edu/content/papers/pdf/Triangles_CHI98.pdf

http://scratch.mit.edu/videos

  • McCorduck p, 1991, Aaron’s Code, San Francisco, W.H Freeman aaron.pdf

runescape screen name

  • My Virtual Life - in BusinessWeek

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_18/b3982001.htm with bonus features online extra http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/06_18/B3982magazine.htm

  • UNICEF: Teen Second Life videos promote child rights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZYB0pf6qcs

warning, the following may be disturbing to watch

  • A Child's War - a video made in Second Life by Global Kids

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK54WRu0jW4

  • pedophiles act out child abuse in second life virtual prog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc0C9k5tQRw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqB5_OyGiIo

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Week 7 (9/30, 10/2): What do we know about designing games?

9/30 project time - work on your projects (individually or in teams)

  • My Roomba Is Rambo: Intimate Home Appliances [pdf]

10/2 presentation of your project prototypes/work in progress 

  mid term project presentation - each person presents progress of their projects!!
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Fall Recess to Thanksgiving

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Week 8 (10/7, 10/9): TBA

  • 10/7 - project presentation and discussion

Do your IRB training and getting a certificate..

http://www.compliance.gatech.edu/IRB/training.shtml

  • 10/9 - relating to design

http://froebelweb.tripod.com/web2000.html

Inventing Kindergarten

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Week 9 (10/14, 10/16): Presentation of project ideas

  • Fall Recess 10-11 - 14, no class 10/14
  • each person should start working on a project prototype
  • Location of Georgia Tech's Surplus - 711 Marietta Street, Atlanta, GA 30332-0300, Tel: 404-894-5000, Main Fax:

404-894-8552, AP Fax: 404-894-8195 Building 113

  • discussion, reading - for Tuesday

just received these two pointers - normally i will not mention religion and politics - but as they appeared in the [serious game mailing list] - so i thought i would share

1. American Academy of Religion Conference Theme: Religion and Play - call for papers

http://www.aar-site.org/About_AAR/regions/Midwest/call.asp

Note: The AAR supports the study of emerging, new, and alternative religions. The AAR neither endorses nor rejects any religious belief or practice.

2. Political discussion aside this is of course interesting: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/236924.php

  • here is a Mark Twain quote - "Get your facts first, then you can

distort them as you please."

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Week 10 (10/21, 10/23): Reflections

  • Tuesday (ellen_web/eweb)
  • Lawson, B (1990) How Designers Think, Butterworth, London, p1-7 lawson.pdf
  • Gardner, H, 1994, Chapter 6, The Creator’s Patterns, in MA Boden (ed) Dimensions of Creativity, MIT Press, 143-158 gardner-pattern.pdf

No class 10/23, go visit GVU Showcase at TSRB - and write a one page report about (1) what were the most interesting projects you have seen and why. and (2) how are any of the projects related to you or your projects, and (3) anything new you have learned?

we will discuss this next week

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if artists can build them.. you should be able to build them too ;-)

http://camilleutterback.com/

http://www.nedkahn.com/portfolio.html

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i mentioned wooden mirror to some of you - simple image processing control flipping of wooden pixels on the wall/mirror

http://www.smoothware.com/danny/woodenmirror.html (check out the video)

here is another one with simple image processing - just a camera to capture the color of the objects and project it back http://www.osmankhan.com/surlatable/index.html (check out the video)

some of you asked to see previous student work - here you go

here is a project from a class (yes, my formal students at university of washington) http://code.arc.cmu.edu/dmgvideo/html/alphabet.html

another student project - laser space http://code.arc.cmu.edu/dmgvideo/html/lasersp.html

this one puts ped simulation on the table top http://code.arc.cmu.edu/lab/upload/mtable.mp4

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Week 11 (10/28, 10/30): Project Presentations and Discussions

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Week 12 (11/4, 11/6): Project Time

  • Work on your projects - final project presentation Dec 4th and Dec 6, document due Dec 13
  • Optional: Check out the articles "Design Principles for Tools to Support Creative Thinking" and "Creativity and Distributed Intelligence" both from the creativity workshop web site
  • Check out AI
  • Check out the projects by Usman Haque - images and videos
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Week 13 (11/11, 11/13): Project Time

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Week 14 (11/18, 11/20): Project Time

  • individual project time 11/20
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Thanksgiving to End of Semester

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Week 15 (11/25, 11/27): Project Time

11/27 Thanksgiving Break

Work on your projects.... Give Ellen the list of people you would like to invite for the Open House - project final presentation

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Week 16 (12/2, 12/4): Project Presentation Open House

  • Final Project presentation - open house
  • Each project should have appropriate presentation material (poster, demonstration, tangible object, etc) that people can interact with and give comments and feedback
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Week 17 (12/9, 12/11): Final Project Documentation Due

  • Final Project documentation due - please post electronic copy on your personal web page link on this class wiki site, and send email to ellen indicate when you have done so.
  • The project documentation should include title of the project, motivation (why you are doing this), related work (what did other people do that's similar to your project), design and implementation of the project (explain the process, system architecture, design schematics, etc, so that a smart graduate student can learn from your project by being able to reproduce it at least), and discussion (what's the contribution and uniqueness of this project, and what are the lessons learned, what are the challenges and issues, and what are the possible future work, etc. Welcome to relate to any of the readings or discussions from any of the class sessions, or any other people's project.)
  • (final grade due 12/15)
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Week 17 (12/09, 12/11): Final Document Due

  • final project document due 12/11, grade due 12/15
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