The student Game Arcade.

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A day long workshop I ran for the Curtin Leadership Centre to involve students as co-designers in the development of the new Leadership Challenge App. Yes, we had a blast!

Projektphase Sommersemester 2012 an der MD.H München.

Master of Arts in Game Design

IULM University

June 27 2018

gamedesign.university

Games User Research: How to avoid the designer's facepalm

Designers have to tell in advance how gamers will comprehend, feel and interact with their games in order to craft successful gaming experiences and avoid frustration, doubts or uncertainty. And since user testing is a powerful tool to verify designers' intents and predictions, Games User Research is a powerful ally. In this workshop, I will show how the science of user testing made your favorite games perfect and I will provide attendees with takeaways they can use to improve their own projects.

Short Bio

Pietro Guardini is an independent Games User Researcher with a PhD in Experimental Psychology and 19 years of research experience. He started doing research on Human-Computer Interaction in 1999 in the academy and later he entered the gaming industry by introducing User Research activity in Milestone – the major videogame studio in Italy – and by supporting Management, Design and Marketing departments with research and testing on 20+ published titles. More recently he founded StopGuessing.it and today he assists several studios in developing their best gaming experience. He had the pleasure to present his work in several publications and talks, including the Game Developers Conference.

For more info:

www.stopguessing.it

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Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/

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I'm beginning to think it takes ten or twelve times through a sewing pattern to really absorb its lessons. These two pale blue sashes are the fifteenth and sixteenth I've made according to this pattern. I've made some variations in sizing and assembly, but in essence it's taken me two sashes each of pale blue, orange, purple, yellow, black, and red to learn how to make them — and I have three more singletons made which I'd like to repeat.

I have two more, of pale green, to make. The fabric is here in the house and ready to cut, but I haven't done it yet.

Projektphase Sommersemester 2012 an der MD.H München.

Teen taught game design class at ImaginOn. www.yoyogames.com . Rebecca's PPT: tinyurl.com/d4odyw

The flooded-lighthouse puzzle from Myst. The player needs to get a locked chest to float to the position where a key can reach it.

Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/

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The cell game prototype developed for Spore was so robust that it could be run as its own fully playable board game.

Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/

MARCH 13 2019/13 MARZO 2019

18:00 - 19:00

Room 135/Aula 135 (terzo piano)

Università IULM (IULM 1)

Via Carlo Bo, 1

20143 Milan

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MACHINIMA AND THE ALLURE OF EPHEMERALITY: GAMEPLAY, LIVE STREAMS & DIGITAL CULTURE

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

In this talk, Jenna Ng will address the explosion of interest in the live streaming of gameplay as witnessed in the popularity of Twitch, whose latest number of daily active users has reached 15 million, as well as other major platforms such as YouTube Gaming, Mixer, and Facebook Live. Specifically, the talk will link the current phenomenon of video game live streams with machinima and its origins in game demos and captured videogame play, arguing not only for live streams to be the next logical evolution for machinima, but also for a critical theorisation of screen media that pursues a realist trajectory, one which potentially works its way from neorealist cinema to drone culture.

Jenna Ng first trained as a finance lawyer in Singapore and London before switching to film studies, in which she obtained a PhD from University College London (UCL), and currently teaches film and interactive media at the University of York, UK. She is the editor of Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds (Bloomsbury, 2013) and her current book project, Undoing the Screen: Space, Spectacle, Surface (Palgrave), explores the effacing of screen boundaries in relation to contemporary display technologies and the resulting erasure between images, objects, surfaces and spaces.

Game Design students at work in the Game Arcade.

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Considering how a game would be designed at opposite ends of a spectrum can spark ideas for design.

Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/

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April Board Game Jam @ USC

(4/16/2010)

Projektphase Sommersemester 2012 an der MD.H München.

Herr von Rymon Lipiński leitete die Lehrveranstaltung.

Josef Hartwig’s Bauhaus chess set design, 1922

See 'Modern games' on the Eye blog.

Family Game Design Workshop for Kids and Baby Boomers

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

5th Ave at 89th Street

New York City

A workshop for families with Guggenheim educators and video game industry professionals investigating game design principles and architectural concepts. Created in collaboration with AARP, Mentor Up, E-Line Media, and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research.

Photo: Filip Wolak

To learn more about our family programs visit www.guggenheim.org/families.

In Grand Theft Auto IV, crimes are punishable only when the police are around to see them.

Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/

Character- und Gamedesign mit Scratch

Clay Modeling im ersten Semester, 2012.

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The student Game Arcade.

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Strat-O-Matic allows players to simulate

the core gameplay underlying baseball using real-world player statistics.

Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/

Players can go on playing The Sims indefinitely, as long as they keep finding interesting things to do.

Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/

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I used some of the scraps generated from making the chess board to create this miniature checkers/draughts board and pieces. I need to finish coloring the tokens, and put a golden dot with a gold marker on the opposite side of each piece, so that the pieces can be flipped over to make kings.

Complex puzzles can be quickly and cheaply designed and tested on paper using a few index cards, maps, and flowcharts.

Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/

This is how Bread Brothers' game design gets done.

Il 19 giugno 2019, gli studenti del Master of Arts in Game Design dell'Università IULM hanno presentato i loro progetti finali a un ospite di eccezione, Stefano Cozzi, di Ignition Software.

Stefano Cozzi si è unito a Riot Games nel maggio 2015 e fino al 2018 ha ricoperto la carica di responsabile alla guida del Publishing Team Europeo, occupandosi dell'Italia e di altre 15 nazioni in Europa. Ha iniziato la sua carriera nel 2005 a Milano, lavorando presso Digital Bros e da allora ha sempre lavorato nel settore gaming, spostandosi per l'Europa. Ha ricoperto la carica di Community Manager per diversi titoli AAA, come Warhammer Online Age of Reckoning (Dublino, GOA Games), World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Diablo III, StarCraft II e Heroes of the Storm (Parigi, Activision Blizzard). Dopo dieci anni a Dublino, in Irlanda è rientrato a Milano e lavora per il publisher videoludico Ignition.

Lecturer at university of Lingue e Scienze della Comunicazione di Milano (IULM) and an expert in Publishing and Community Management with over 12 years of experience abroad in Activision Blizzard (World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, Hearthstone, Diablo 3, Heroes of the Storm) and Riot Games (League of Legends), where his work consisted of creating and raising the performance of teams composed of professionals in the sector, as well as directly managing relationships with communities and influencers, with a particular emphasis on building communities and interactions directly between the developers and the public

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Realmcraft is a game almost identical to Minecraft. Many appreciate it for smoother graphics. In addition, unlike Minecraft, it can be played for free. The greatest advantage of this game is the ingeniously simple gameplay that allows you to create whatever you like.

In survival mode, you will need to not only get food but also build a shelter from monsters in a timely manner. At the same time, you will first have to get all the tools and materials for construction with your bare hands. The game also has a creative mode where you can build everything: from giant statues to football stadiums without wasting time on mining and protection from monsters. By the way, you can watch interesting building tutorials here.

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• Gather resources, makecraft to survive;

• Fight your enemies in survival & craft mode;

• Crafting and Building game with huge 3D world;

• Creation mode to set your imagination free.

Projektphase Sommersemester 2012 an der MD.H München.

Imagine Cup 2012 participants are preparing for presentations of the first round of the Game and Software Design competition and Phone.

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