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Archiving my very 1st teenage steps with the Atari 800XL in the form of a folder full of code, sketches & references (all created between 1988-1991)... I started with writing pure hex code, then taught myself the 6502 flavour of Assembler (only learned Z80 before) but then got more & more into game design, icons & demo scene activities (as coder, gfx and chiptunes & co-organizer) and started building several tools & games (incl. The Brundles, a commercial Lemmings clone for the 8-bit Atari in '93)
The urban setting in Grand Theft Auto IV is built to a remarkable level of detail, inviting the impression of a real living city.
Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/
Il 13 giugno 2019, gli studenti del Master of Arts in Game Design dell'Università IULM hanno presentato i loro progetti finali a due ospiti di eccezione: Marco Minoli e Paolo Paglianti di Slitherine Software.
Slitherine LTD è un publisher di videogame britannico nato dalla passione dei suoi soci fondatori, JD e Iain McNeil, per la storia e le simulazioni militari, all'inizio degli anni 2000. Il rapido successo nella nicchia di mercato degli strategici ha permesso a Slitherine di acquisire nel 2008 l'americana Matrix Games, altro publisher dedito esclusivamente ai giochi di strategia. Nel catalogo di Slitherine/Matrix sono presenti solo strategici: dozzine di wargame ambientati in ogni periodo storico, dall'antica Roma (Field of Glory II) alle guerre rinascimentali europee (Pike and Shoot), dal medioevo giapponese (Sengoku Jidai) alla Guerra Civile americana (Gettysburg). Moltissimi i titoli ambientati durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale (Panzer Corps, che ha venduto finora oltre un milione di copie, l'intera saga di Close Combat, Order of Battle). l simulatore di guerra navale moderna, Command Modern Air Naval Operations è talmente accurato che diverse agenzie militari e private hanno richiesto una versione professionale. Non solo wargame storici, però: nel catalogo di Slitherine sono presenti diversi videogiochi su licenza Warhammer 40,000 (WH40K Gladius e Sanctus Reach) e Battlestar Galactica (BSG Deadlock, di cui si è appena conclusa la Season One.
L'HQ di Slitherine è vicino a Londra, a Epsom, e abbiamo developer e studi di sviluppo in tutto il mondo - dall'Australia alla Bulgaria, dagli States alla Russia. A Milano opera la Slòitherine italiana (sette persone) in cui ha sede tutto il marketing e le PR a livello globale.
Marco A. Minoli ha cominciato nel 1998 a lavorare nel settore dei videogiochi. Si considera un ambasciatore fedele delle nicchie di mercato: prima dei simulatori di volo, poi di quelli di guida e infine, dal 2007, di wargames e giochi di strategia. Proprio nel 2007 inizia la sua avventura in Slitherine dove ha contribuito a portare i wargames e i giochi di strategia più complessi su piattaforme portatili e sdoganato il prodotto premium su iOS. Dalla sua esperienza in Leader, distributore storico di videogiochi in Italiana, passando poi per Electronic Arts, Warner Bros e Koch Media, Marco continua a credere che le regole del mercato di domani siano ancora da scoprire. Gestisce un team tutto internazionale di marketing e vendite direttamente dall’Italia e continua ad ostinarsi a portare la cravatta in un settore popolato di magliette geek.
Paolo Paglianti ha iniziato a scrivere di videogame il secolo scorso, nel 1989, e gli è piaciuto così tanto che non ha più smesso. Ha iniziato a scrivere sulla mitica rivista Kappa ed è stato caporedattore e direttore delle riviste di videogame più diffuse e vendute in Italia (tra cui ZETA, Giochi per il Mio Computer, X-Box Ufficiale). Nel 2018 ha deciso di scoprire come si fanno i videogame che ha giocato (e criticato) per cinque lustri, ed si è unito all'ufficio italiano di Slitherine come PR globale. Il fatto che abbia una passione insana per i wargame su PC e che sia stato sette volte campione italiano di wargame "tabletop" (con i "soldatini) e tre volte campione del Mondo è totalmente casuale.
The theme is "making ends meet." We're limited to these supplies of paper, markers, playing cards, blocks & pegs, junk like that.
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April Board Game Jam @ USC
(4/16/2010)
Game Design Summer Intensive.
Find out more about VFS Summer Intensive programs at vfs.com/summerintensives.
Game Design Summer Intensive.
Find out more about VFS Summer Intensive programs at vfs.com/summerintensives.
Archiving my very 1st teenage steps with the Atari 800XL in the form of a folder full of code, sketches & references (all created between 1988-1991)... I started with writing pure hex code, then taught myself the 6502 flavour of Assembler (only learned Z80 before) but then got more & more into game design, icons & demo scene activities (as coder, gfx and chiptunes & co-organizer) and started building several tools & games (incl. The Brundles, a commercial Lemmings clone for the 8-bit Atari in '93)
JUNE 4 2019/4 GIUGNO 2019
18:00 - 19:00
Room 135/Aula 135 (terzo piano)
Università IULM (IULM 1)
Via Carlo Bo, 1
20143 Milan
gamedesign.university
7 1/2 OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE SHORTEST FOUR-LETTER WORD IN GAMES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
When players enjoy a game, they say, “That was fun!” When designers make, journalists review, or academics theorize about a game, the word fun rarely comes up. A word so commonplace as to sound meaningless and typically ignored, “fun" remains unmentioned by those who make and write about games. This talk looks beyond game development, game journalism and game studies for ideas to help us better understand the role of fun in games and beyond. Drawing on fields as diverse as cognitive psychology, anthropology, cultural theory, the philosophy of art, and sociology, Sharp explores the power and potential of fun as useful concept and tool for experiencing, thinking about, and understanding play.
historian, curator and educator with thirty years of involvement in the creation and study of art and design. John's current design work focuses on cultural games, artgames and non-digital games. His current research addresses game aesthetics, the processes of creativity, and the intersections of aesthetics and ethics. Sharp is Associate Professor in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons School of Design at the New School. He is the author of Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art (MIT Press) and coauthor (with Colleen Macklin) of Iterate.Ten Lessons in Design and Failure and (with David Thomas) Fun, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful (MIT Press). Sharp and Macklin are Codirectors of the PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) at Parsons. John was the curator of Spacewar!: Videogames Blast Off (2012) and A Whole Different Ball Game: Playing Through 60 Years of Sports Video Games (2018, co-curator Jason Eppink) at the Museum of the Moving Image and co-curator of XYZ: Alternative Voices in Game Design (2013) at the Museum of Design-Atlanta. John’s Games include The Metagame (2015) and Losswords (2019).
7 OSSERVAZIONI E 1/2 SULLA PAROLA DI QUATTRO LETTERE PIÙ CORTA NEI GIOCHI
Quando un giocatore s’imbatte in un’esperienza ludica particolarmente avvincente, spesso esclama: "Wow, è veramente divertente!". Eppure designer, giornalisti e accademici raramente utilizzano il termine “divertimento” per riferisi ai videogiochi. Questo sostantivo è così vago e generico che persino chi sviluppa o scrive di videogiochi tende a ignorarlo. Beninteso, il fenomeno non riguarda solo game design, giornalismo e game studies, ma la cultura in quanto tale. In un avvincente excursus che attinge a piene mani dalla psicologia cognitiva, dall'antropologia, dalla teoria culturale, dalla filosofia dell'arte e alla sociologia - Sharp esplora il potenziale del divertimento per ripensare l’attività del giocare.
John Sharp è un designer, storico dell'arte, curatore ed educatore con trent'anni di esperienza nello sviluppo e nello studio dell'arte e del design. La sua ricerca si concentra sui videogiochi culturali, artistici e analogici, con particolare attenzione all'estetica videoludica, i processi creativi e le intersezioni tra estetica ed etica. Professore Associato alla Scuola di Arte, Media e Tecnologia della Parsons School of Design (New School), è l’autore di Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art (MIT Press) e coautore (con Colleen Macklin) di Iterate.Ten Lessons in Design and Failure e (con David Thomas) Fun, Taste, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful (MIT Press). Sharp e Macklin sono i direttori del PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) alla Parsons School of Design. Ha curato numerose mostre tra cui Spacewar!: Videogames Blast Off (2012) e A Whole Different Ball Game: Playing Through 60 Years of Sports Video Games (2018, insieme a Jason Eppink) al Museum of the Moving Image. Ha co-curato XYZ: Alternative Voices in Game Design (2013) al Museum of Design-Atlanta. Come designer, ha realizzato The Metagame (2015) and Losswords (2019).
John Sharp is a designer, art
JUNE 4 2019/4 GIUGNO 2019
18:00 - 19:00
Room 135/Aula 135 (terzo piano)
Università IULM (IULM 1)
Via Carlo Bo, 1
20143 Milan
gamedesign.university
7 1/2 OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE SHORTEST FOUR-LETTER WORD IN GAMES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
When players enjoy a game, they say, “That was fun!” When designers make, journalists review, or academics theorize about a game, the word fun rarely comes up. A word so commonplace as to sound meaningless and typically ignored, “fun" remains unmentioned by those who make and write about games. This talk looks beyond game development, game journalism and game studies for ideas to help us better understand the role of fun in games and beyond. Drawing on fields as diverse as cognitive psychology, anthropology, cultural theory, the philosophy of art, and sociology, Sharp explores the power and potential of fun as useful concept and tool for experiencing, thinking about, and understanding play.
historian, curator and educator with thirty years of involvement in the creation and study of art and design. John's current design work focuses on cultural games, artgames and non-digital games. His current research addresses game aesthetics, the processes of creativity, and the intersections of aesthetics and ethics. Sharp is Associate Professor in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons School of Design at the New School. He is the author of Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art (MIT Press) and coauthor (with Colleen Macklin) of Iterate.Ten Lessons in Design and Failure and (with David Thomas) Fun, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful (MIT Press). Sharp and Macklin are Codirectors of the PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) at Parsons. John was the curator of Spacewar!: Videogames Blast Off (2012) and A Whole Different Ball Game: Playing Through 60 Years of Sports Video Games (2018, co-curator Jason Eppink) at the Museum of the Moving Image and co-curator of XYZ: Alternative Voices in Game Design (2013) at the Museum of Design-Atlanta. John’s Games include The Metagame (2015) and Losswords (2019).
7 OSSERVAZIONI E 1/2 SULLA PAROLA DI QUATTRO LETTERE PIÙ CORTA NEI GIOCHI
Quando un giocatore s’imbatte in un’esperienza ludica particolarmente avvincente, spesso esclama: "Wow, è veramente divertente!". Eppure designer, giornalisti e accademici raramente utilizzano il termine “divertimento” per riferisi ai videogiochi. Questo sostantivo è così vago e generico che persino chi sviluppa o scrive di videogiochi tende a ignorarlo. Beninteso, il fenomeno non riguarda solo game design, giornalismo e game studies, ma la cultura in quanto tale. In un avvincente excursus che attinge a piene mani dalla psicologia cognitiva, dall'antropologia, dalla teoria culturale, dalla filosofia dell'arte e alla sociologia - Sharp esplora il potenziale del divertimento per ripensare l’attività del giocare.
John Sharp è un designer, storico dell'arte, curatore ed educatore con trent'anni di esperienza nello sviluppo e nello studio dell'arte e del design. La sua ricerca si concentra sui videogiochi culturali, artistici e analogici, con particolare attenzione all'estetica videoludica, i processi creativi e le intersezioni tra estetica ed etica. Professore Associato alla Scuola di Arte, Media e Tecnologia della Parsons School of Design (New School), è l’autore di Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art (MIT Press) e coautore (con Colleen Macklin) di Iterate.Ten Lessons in Design and Failure e (con David Thomas) Fun, Taste, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful (MIT Press). Sharp e Macklin sono i direttori del PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) alla Parsons School of Design. Ha curato numerose mostre tra cui Spacewar!: Videogames Blast Off (2012) e A Whole Different Ball Game: Playing Through 60 Years of Sports Video Games (2018, insieme a Jason Eppink) al Museum of the Moving Image. Ha co-curato XYZ: Alternative Voices in Game Design (2013) al Museum of Design-Atlanta. Come designer, ha realizzato The Metagame (2015) and Losswords (2019).
John Sharp is a designer, art
This panel, moderated by Louis-Richard Tremblay, looks at lessons learned and insights from collaborations between filmmakers and game creators.
Louis-Richard Tremblay, producer, National Film Board of Canada
Vali Fugulin, filmmaker, National Film Board of Canada
Ruben Farrus, creative director, Minority Media Inc.
Philip Tan, research scientist, MIT Game Lab
Photo Credit: Gabi Porter
Knox College students in the Interactive Design course create their own games using randomly assigned objects. The course draws on faculty from computer science, graphic design and theatre. Photo by Peter Bailley.
🎅 Celebrate New Year with Christmas Event in Realmcraft Free Minecraft Clone 🎄🎄🎄
★★★★★ FREE 3D CRAFT SANDBOX ★★★★★
Craft & Build & Destroy & Survive
★★★ JOIN SURVIVAL EPIC EXPLORE & ADVENTURE! ★★★
🎮 REALMCRAFT Game Android Download link:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tellurionmobile...
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.
*** GAME FEATURES ***
• 3D Sandbox free construction game;
• MULTIPLAYER: play and build online with your friends;
• Explore world in rpg fun building game;
• Enjoy huge cube world and pixel craft;
• Mine & crafting and building and destroying everything;
• 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.
And a few moments relaxing beofre the presentation - Sheryl Hills - studio manager, Rory Cartwright - lead designer - producer, John Passfield - Passfield Games, Duncan Curtis and Marko Grgic (The 3 Blokes) and Adrian Cook (Wildfire Studios)
JUNE 4 2019/4 GIUGNO 2019
18:00 - 19:00
Room 135/Aula 135 (terzo piano)
Università IULM (IULM 1)
Via Carlo Bo, 1
20143 Milan
gamedesign.university
7 1/2 OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE SHORTEST FOUR-LETTER WORD IN GAMES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
When players enjoy a game, they say, “That was fun!” When designers make, journalists review, or academics theorize about a game, the word fun rarely comes up. A word so commonplace as to sound meaningless and typically ignored, “fun" remains unmentioned by those who make and write about games. This talk looks beyond game development, game journalism and game studies for ideas to help us better understand the role of fun in games and beyond. Drawing on fields as diverse as cognitive psychology, anthropology, cultural theory, the philosophy of art, and sociology, Sharp explores the power and potential of fun as useful concept and tool for experiencing, thinking about, and understanding play.
historian, curator and educator with thirty years of involvement in the creation and study of art and design. John's current design work focuses on cultural games, artgames and non-digital games. His current research addresses game aesthetics, the processes of creativity, and the intersections of aesthetics and ethics. Sharp is Associate Professor in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons School of Design at the New School. He is the author of Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art (MIT Press) and coauthor (with Colleen Macklin) of Iterate.Ten Lessons in Design and Failure and (with David Thomas) Fun, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful (MIT Press). Sharp and Macklin are Codirectors of the PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) at Parsons. John was the curator of Spacewar!: Videogames Blast Off (2012) and A Whole Different Ball Game: Playing Through 60 Years of Sports Video Games (2018, co-curator Jason Eppink) at the Museum of the Moving Image and co-curator of XYZ: Alternative Voices in Game Design (2013) at the Museum of Design-Atlanta. John’s Games include The Metagame (2015) and Losswords (2019).
7 OSSERVAZIONI E 1/2 SULLA PAROLA DI QUATTRO LETTERE PIÙ CORTA NEI GIOCHI
Quando un giocatore s’imbatte in un’esperienza ludica particolarmente avvincente, spesso esclama: "Wow, è veramente divertente!". Eppure designer, giornalisti e accademici raramente utilizzano il termine “divertimento” per riferisi ai videogiochi. Questo sostantivo è così vago e generico che persino chi sviluppa o scrive di videogiochi tende a ignorarlo. Beninteso, il fenomeno non riguarda solo game design, giornalismo e game studies, ma la cultura in quanto tale. In un avvincente excursus che attinge a piene mani dalla psicologia cognitiva, dall'antropologia, dalla teoria culturale, dalla filosofia dell'arte e alla sociologia - Sharp esplora il potenziale del divertimento per ripensare l’attività del giocare.
John Sharp è un designer, storico dell'arte, curatore ed educatore con trent'anni di esperienza nello sviluppo e nello studio dell'arte e del design. La sua ricerca si concentra sui videogiochi culturali, artistici e analogici, con particolare attenzione all'estetica videoludica, i processi creativi e le intersezioni tra estetica ed etica. Professore Associato alla Scuola di Arte, Media e Tecnologia della Parsons School of Design (New School), è l’autore di Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art (MIT Press) e coautore (con Colleen Macklin) di Iterate.Ten Lessons in Design and Failure e (con David Thomas) Fun, Taste, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful (MIT Press). Sharp e Macklin sono i direttori del PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) alla Parsons School of Design. Ha curato numerose mostre tra cui Spacewar!: Videogames Blast Off (2012) e A Whole Different Ball Game: Playing Through 60 Years of Sports Video Games (2018, insieme a Jason Eppink) al Museum of the Moving Image. Ha co-curato XYZ: Alternative Voices in Game Design (2013) al Museum of Design-Atlanta. Come designer, ha realizzato The Metagame (2015) and Losswords (2019).
John Sharp is a designer, art
Il 13 giugno 2019, gli studenti del Master of Arts in Game Design dell'Università IULM hanno presentato i loro progetti finali a due ospiti di eccezione: Marco Minoli e Paolo Paglianti di Slitherine Software.
Slitherine LTD è un publisher di videogame britannico nato dalla passione dei suoi soci fondatori, JD e Iain McNeil, per la storia e le simulazioni militari, all'inizio degli anni 2000. Il rapido successo nella nicchia di mercato degli strategici ha permesso a Slitherine di acquisire nel 2008 l'americana Matrix Games, altro publisher dedito esclusivamente ai giochi di strategia. Nel catalogo di Slitherine/Matrix sono presenti solo strategici: dozzine di wargame ambientati in ogni periodo storico, dall'antica Roma (Field of Glory II) alle guerre rinascimentali europee (Pike and Shoot), dal medioevo giapponese (Sengoku Jidai) alla Guerra Civile americana (Gettysburg). Moltissimi i titoli ambientati durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale (Panzer Corps, che ha venduto finora oltre un milione di copie, l'intera saga di Close Combat, Order of Battle). l simulatore di guerra navale moderna, Command Modern Air Naval Operations è talmente accurato che diverse agenzie militari e private hanno richiesto una versione professionale. Non solo wargame storici, però: nel catalogo di Slitherine sono presenti diversi videogiochi su licenza Warhammer 40,000 (WH40K Gladius e Sanctus Reach) e Battlestar Galactica (BSG Deadlock, di cui si è appena conclusa la Season One.
L'HQ di Slitherine è vicino a Londra, a Epsom, e abbiamo developer e studi di sviluppo in tutto il mondo - dall'Australia alla Bulgaria, dagli States alla Russia. A Milano opera la Slòitherine italiana (sette persone) in cui ha sede tutto il marketing e le PR a livello globale.
Marco A. Minoli ha cominciato nel 1998 a lavorare nel settore dei videogiochi. Si considera un ambasciatore fedele delle nicchie di mercato: prima dei simulatori di volo, poi di quelli di guida e infine, dal 2007, di wargames e giochi di strategia. Proprio nel 2007 inizia la sua avventura in Slitherine dove ha contribuito a portare i wargames e i giochi di strategia più complessi su piattaforme portatili e sdoganato il prodotto premium su iOS. Dalla sua esperienza in Leader, distributore storico di videogiochi in Italiana, passando poi per Electronic Arts, Warner Bros e Koch Media, Marco continua a credere che le regole del mercato di domani siano ancora da scoprire. Gestisce un team tutto internazionale di marketing e vendite direttamente dall’Italia e continua ad ostinarsi a portare la cravatta in un settore popolato di magliette geek.
Paolo Paglianti ha iniziato a scrivere di videogame il secolo scorso, nel 1989, e gli è piaciuto così tanto che non ha più smesso. Ha iniziato a scrivere sulla mitica rivista Kappa ed è stato caporedattore e direttore delle riviste di videogame più diffuse e vendute in Italia (tra cui ZETA, Giochi per il Mio Computer, X-Box Ufficiale). Nel 2018 ha deciso di scoprire come si fanno i videogame che ha giocato (e criticato) per cinque lustri, ed si è unito all'ufficio italiano di Slitherine come PR globale. Il fatto che abbia una passione insana per i wargame su PC e che sia stato sette volte campione italiano di wargame "tabletop" (con i "soldatini) e tre volte campione del Mondo è totalmente casuale.
Game Design Workshop for Middle Schoolers
Saturday, February 7, 2015
5th Ave at 89th Street
New York City
This Game Design Workshop for children ages 11–14 was a free one-day workshop with a Guggenheim educator and a video game industry professional that investigated game design principles and architectural concepts. Just as architect Frank Lloyd Wright was challenged to create a dynamic visitor experience in his design for the Guggenheim, participants explored how to create fun experiences for players through hands-on and digital projects. Created in collaboration with the 2014–2015 STEM Challenge, The Institute of Museum and Library Services, The Joan Ganz Cooney Center, and E-Line Media.
To learn more, visit www.guggenheim.org/education.
Knox College students in the Interactive Design course create their own games using randomly assigned objects. The course draws on faculty from computer science, graphic design and theatre. Photo by Peter Bailley.
Dave Warfield, Head of VFS Game Design, talks about the day’s events at the Game Design Open House.
Learn about Game Design Expo at gamedesignexpo.com.
Find out more about VFS's one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign
JUNE 4 2019/4 GIUGNO 2019
18:00 - 19:00
Room 135/Aula 135 (terzo piano)
Università IULM (IULM 1)
Via Carlo Bo, 1
20143 Milan
gamedesign.university
7 1/2 OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE SHORTEST FOUR-LETTER WORD IN GAMES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
When players enjoy a game, they say, “That was fun!” When designers make, journalists review, or academics theorize about a game, the word fun rarely comes up. A word so commonplace as to sound meaningless and typically ignored, “fun" remains unmentioned by those who make and write about games. This talk looks beyond game development, game journalism and game studies for ideas to help us better understand the role of fun in games and beyond. Drawing on fields as diverse as cognitive psychology, anthropology, cultural theory, the philosophy of art, and sociology, Sharp explores the power and potential of fun as useful concept and tool for experiencing, thinking about, and understanding play.
historian, curator and educator with thirty years of involvement in the creation and study of art and design. John's current design work focuses on cultural games, artgames and non-digital games. His current research addresses game aesthetics, the processes of creativity, and the intersections of aesthetics and ethics. Sharp is Associate Professor in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons School of Design at the New School. He is the author of Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art (MIT Press) and coauthor (with Colleen Macklin) of Iterate.Ten Lessons in Design and Failure and (with David Thomas) Fun, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful (MIT Press). Sharp and Macklin are Codirectors of the PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) at Parsons. John was the curator of Spacewar!: Videogames Blast Off (2012) and A Whole Different Ball Game: Playing Through 60 Years of Sports Video Games (2018, co-curator Jason Eppink) at the Museum of the Moving Image and co-curator of XYZ: Alternative Voices in Game Design (2013) at the Museum of Design-Atlanta. John’s Games include The Metagame (2015) and Losswords (2019).
7 OSSERVAZIONI E 1/2 SULLA PAROLA DI QUATTRO LETTERE PIÙ CORTA NEI GIOCHI
Quando un giocatore s’imbatte in un’esperienza ludica particolarmente avvincente, spesso esclama: "Wow, è veramente divertente!". Eppure designer, giornalisti e accademici raramente utilizzano il termine “divertimento” per riferisi ai videogiochi. Questo sostantivo è così vago e generico che persino chi sviluppa o scrive di videogiochi tende a ignorarlo. Beninteso, il fenomeno non riguarda solo game design, giornalismo e game studies, ma la cultura in quanto tale. In un avvincente excursus che attinge a piene mani dalla psicologia cognitiva, dall'antropologia, dalla teoria culturale, dalla filosofia dell'arte e alla sociologia - Sharp esplora il potenziale del divertimento per ripensare l’attività del giocare.
John Sharp è un designer, storico dell'arte, curatore ed educatore con trent'anni di esperienza nello sviluppo e nello studio dell'arte e del design. La sua ricerca si concentra sui videogiochi culturali, artistici e analogici, con particolare attenzione all'estetica videoludica, i processi creativi e le intersezioni tra estetica ed etica. Professore Associato alla Scuola di Arte, Media e Tecnologia della Parsons School of Design (New School), è l’autore di Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art (MIT Press) e coautore (con Colleen Macklin) di Iterate.Ten Lessons in Design and Failure e (con David Thomas) Fun, Taste, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful (MIT Press). Sharp e Macklin sono i direttori del PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) alla Parsons School of Design. Ha curato numerose mostre tra cui Spacewar!: Videogames Blast Off (2012) e A Whole Different Ball Game: Playing Through 60 Years of Sports Video Games (2018, insieme a Jason Eppink) al Museum of the Moving Image. Ha co-curato XYZ: Alternative Voices in Game Design (2013) al Museum of Design-Atlanta. Come designer, ha realizzato The Metagame (2015) and Losswords (2019).
John Sharp is a designer, art
Archiving my very 1st teenage steps with the Atari 800XL in the form of a folder full of code, sketches & references (all created between 1988-1991)... I started with writing pure hex code, then taught myself the 6502 flavour of Assembler (only learned Z80 before) but then got more & more into game design, icons & demo scene activities (as coder, gfx and chiptunes & co-organizer) and started building several tools & games (incl. The Brundles, a commercial Lemmings clone for the 8-bit Atari in '93)
MDDN 243, Introduction to Computer Game Design
Designers: Logan Willmott, Sebastian Sloan, David McLean, Matthew Mills, Shengying Cai, Matthew Fogarty
At each step in Schwab’s It’s Your Life game, it’s pretty obvious which choice will lead to a winning outcome.
Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/
Kids under 18 represent the smallest minority of game players.
Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/
Knox College students in the Interactive Design course create their own games using randomly assigned objects. The course draws on faculty from computer science, graphic design and theatre. Photo by Peter Bailley.
The physical artifacts that came packaged with the Ultima games gave tangibility to their virtual worlds.
Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/
Hearts creates excitement by presenting players with lots of interesting choices.
Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/
Consulting company Bolt | Peters provides a comfortable space for playtesting—a sharp contrast to the conventionally stuffy usability lab.
Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/
Creator of Quake, Doom and Wolfenstein 3D speaks during the 2010 Art History of Games conference at the Woodruff Center's Rich Auditorium in Atlanta.
JUNE 4 2019/4 GIUGNO 2019
18:00 - 19:00
Room 135/Aula 135 (terzo piano)
Università IULM (IULM 1)
Via Carlo Bo, 1
20143 Milan
gamedesign.university
7 1/2 OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE SHORTEST FOUR-LETTER WORD IN GAMES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
When players enjoy a game, they say, “That was fun!” When designers make, journalists review, or academics theorize about a game, the word fun rarely comes up. A word so commonplace as to sound meaningless and typically ignored, “fun" remains unmentioned by those who make and write about games. This talk looks beyond game development, game journalism and game studies for ideas to help us better understand the role of fun in games and beyond. Drawing on fields as diverse as cognitive psychology, anthropology, cultural theory, the philosophy of art, and sociology, Sharp explores the power and potential of fun as useful concept and tool for experiencing, thinking about, and understanding play.
historian, curator and educator with thirty years of involvement in the creation and study of art and design. John's current design work focuses on cultural games, artgames and non-digital games. His current research addresses game aesthetics, the processes of creativity, and the intersections of aesthetics and ethics. Sharp is Associate Professor in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons School of Design at the New School. He is the author of Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art (MIT Press) and coauthor (with Colleen Macklin) of Iterate.Ten Lessons in Design and Failure and (with David Thomas) Fun, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful (MIT Press). Sharp and Macklin are Codirectors of the PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) at Parsons. John was the curator of Spacewar!: Videogames Blast Off (2012) and A Whole Different Ball Game: Playing Through 60 Years of Sports Video Games (2018, co-curator Jason Eppink) at the Museum of the Moving Image and co-curator of XYZ: Alternative Voices in Game Design (2013) at the Museum of Design-Atlanta. John’s Games include The Metagame (2015) and Losswords (2019).
7 OSSERVAZIONI E 1/2 SULLA PAROLA DI QUATTRO LETTERE PIÙ CORTA NEI GIOCHI
Quando un giocatore s’imbatte in un’esperienza ludica particolarmente avvincente, spesso esclama: "Wow, è veramente divertente!". Eppure designer, giornalisti e accademici raramente utilizzano il termine “divertimento” per riferisi ai videogiochi. Questo sostantivo è così vago e generico che persino chi sviluppa o scrive di videogiochi tende a ignorarlo. Beninteso, il fenomeno non riguarda solo game design, giornalismo e game studies, ma la cultura in quanto tale. In un avvincente excursus che attinge a piene mani dalla psicologia cognitiva, dall'antropologia, dalla teoria culturale, dalla filosofia dell'arte e alla sociologia - Sharp esplora il potenziale del divertimento per ripensare l’attività del giocare.
John Sharp è un designer, storico dell'arte, curatore ed educatore con trent'anni di esperienza nello sviluppo e nello studio dell'arte e del design. La sua ricerca si concentra sui videogiochi culturali, artistici e analogici, con particolare attenzione all'estetica videoludica, i processi creativi e le intersezioni tra estetica ed etica. Professore Associato alla Scuola di Arte, Media e Tecnologia della Parsons School of Design (New School), è l’autore di Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art (MIT Press) e coautore (con Colleen Macklin) di Iterate.Ten Lessons in Design and Failure e (con David Thomas) Fun, Taste, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful (MIT Press). Sharp e Macklin sono i direttori del PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) alla Parsons School of Design. Ha curato numerose mostre tra cui Spacewar!: Videogames Blast Off (2012) e A Whole Different Ball Game: Playing Through 60 Years of Sports Video Games (2018, insieme a Jason Eppink) al Museum of the Moving Image. Ha co-curato XYZ: Alternative Voices in Game Design (2013) al Museum of Design-Atlanta. Come designer, ha realizzato The Metagame (2015) and Losswords (2019).
John Sharp is a designer, art
Im diesjährigen Weihnachtsworkshop in Wels wurden, gemeinsam mit Schülern des MRG Fadingerstraße Linz, die Grundlagen der Open-Source 3D Modelliersoftware Blender behandelt und fliegende Inseln für das Spiel 'Fragment Planet' modelliert, sowie texturiert.
'Fragment Planet' ist ein Echtzeitstrategiespiel von Simon Stix, in dem die Erde auf der Suche nach einer neuen Energiequelle vernichtet wurde. Die Überlebenden der Katastrophe bewegen sich mithilfe von Fluggeräten zwischen Fragmenten der alten Welt und bauen auf ihnen trostlose Städte und Militärbasen. Der Stil des Spiels ist eine Mischung aus Steam- und Cyberpunk und es verbindet die Elemente klassischer Strategiespiele, mit frei beweglichen, fliegenden Inseln, wodurch ein einzigartig dynamisches Gameplay entsteht.
Workshop-Leitung: Gerolf Nikolay, MSc
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von GMF-Productions www.gmf.com.mx
Interactive touch-screen dressing up game design for proposed use on iPad/iPhone to incorporate curriculum themes from Key Stages 1, 2 and 3.
Almost finished: One sheet of tiles. The laser head waves over each part quickly, etching with several thousand high speed passes. Then it drops into a slower mode, going from point to point, to cut. There's a bit of trial and error to finding the right speed and power settings for each material.
I prototyped the bits to fit on a 11" x 11" die-cut board, which is one of the more common dimensions of game boxes. All told, my game requires of 8 these sheets, plus a rulebook and a triple sized deck of cards. That's pretty prop intensive, but still has fewer, cheaper bits than many popular games.
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The game had its first playtest tonight, with two strangers from the Berkeley Boardgamers meet-up group. It went better than I'd dared hope. There were few rules questions, and we got through the whole game in about 2 hours, even though it was all of our first time playing. That's almost the exact playtime I was aiming for.
Best of all, the game played well. Even with newbie mistakes, my playtesters managed to bounce back and the winner was in doubt up until the final turn. As they were leaving, they asked if I would be there again next week; they wanted another crack at the game. That, my friends, is a better first playtest than I'd dared hope.
In total, we found one card that was broken, and a few rules that needed touch-ups, but they were all easy fixes. The base structure of the game, on first test, seems solid, and fun.
Archiving my very 1st teenage steps with the Atari 800XL in the form of a folder full of code, sketches & references (all created between 1988-1991)... I started with writing pure hex code, then taught myself the 6502 flavour of Assembler (only learned Z80 before) but then got more & more into game design, icons & demo scene activities (as coder, gfx and chiptunes & co-organizer) and started building several tools & games (incl. The Brundles, a commercial Lemmings clone for the 8-bit Atari in '93)
iD tech summer camp- film academy, ro
iD tech summer camp- film academy, robotics, classroom
iD tech summer camp- film academy, robotics, classroom
Find out more about VFS's annual Game Design Expo at www.gamedesignexpo.com/
To learn more about VFS’s one-year Game Design program, visit www.vfs.com/gamedesign
Game Design Workshop for Middle Schoolers
Saturday, February 7, 2015
5th Ave at 89th Street
New York City
This Game Design Workshop for children ages 11–14 was a free one-day workshop with a Guggenheim educator and a video game industry professional that investigated game design principles and architectural concepts. Just as architect Frank Lloyd Wright was challenged to create a dynamic visitor experience in his design for the Guggenheim, participants explored how to create fun experiences for players through hands-on and digital projects. Created in collaboration with the 2014–2015 STEM Challenge, The Institute of Museum and Library Services, The Joan Ganz Cooney Center, and E-Line Media.
To learn more, visit www.guggenheim.org/education.
JUNE 4 2019/4 GIUGNO 2019
18:00 - 19:00
Room 135/Aula 135 (terzo piano)
Università IULM (IULM 1)
Via Carlo Bo, 1
20143 Milan
gamedesign.university
7 1/2 OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE SHORTEST FOUR-LETTER WORD IN GAMES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
When players enjoy a game, they say, “That was fun!” When designers make, journalists review, or academics theorize about a game, the word fun rarely comes up. A word so commonplace as to sound meaningless and typically ignored, “fun" remains unmentioned by those who make and write about games. This talk looks beyond game development, game journalism and game studies for ideas to help us better understand the role of fun in games and beyond. Drawing on fields as diverse as cognitive psychology, anthropology, cultural theory, the philosophy of art, and sociology, Sharp explores the power and potential of fun as useful concept and tool for experiencing, thinking about, and understanding play.
historian, curator and educator with thirty years of involvement in the creation and study of art and design. John's current design work focuses on cultural games, artgames and non-digital games. His current research addresses game aesthetics, the processes of creativity, and the intersections of aesthetics and ethics. Sharp is Associate Professor in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons School of Design at the New School. He is the author of Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art (MIT Press) and coauthor (with Colleen Macklin) of Iterate.Ten Lessons in Design and Failure and (with David Thomas) Fun, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful (MIT Press). Sharp and Macklin are Codirectors of the PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) at Parsons. John was the curator of Spacewar!: Videogames Blast Off (2012) and A Whole Different Ball Game: Playing Through 60 Years of Sports Video Games (2018, co-curator Jason Eppink) at the Museum of the Moving Image and co-curator of XYZ: Alternative Voices in Game Design (2013) at the Museum of Design-Atlanta. John’s Games include The Metagame (2015) and Losswords (2019).
7 OSSERVAZIONI E 1/2 SULLA PAROLA DI QUATTRO LETTERE PIÙ CORTA NEI GIOCHI
Quando un giocatore s’imbatte in un’esperienza ludica particolarmente avvincente, spesso esclama: "Wow, è veramente divertente!". Eppure designer, giornalisti e accademici raramente utilizzano il termine “divertimento” per riferisi ai videogiochi. Questo sostantivo è così vago e generico che persino chi sviluppa o scrive di videogiochi tende a ignorarlo. Beninteso, il fenomeno non riguarda solo game design, giornalismo e game studies, ma la cultura in quanto tale. In un avvincente excursus che attinge a piene mani dalla psicologia cognitiva, dall'antropologia, dalla teoria culturale, dalla filosofia dell'arte e alla sociologia - Sharp esplora il potenziale del divertimento per ripensare l’attività del giocare.
John Sharp è un designer, storico dell'arte, curatore ed educatore con trent'anni di esperienza nello sviluppo e nello studio dell'arte e del design. La sua ricerca si concentra sui videogiochi culturali, artistici e analogici, con particolare attenzione all'estetica videoludica, i processi creativi e le intersezioni tra estetica ed etica. Professore Associato alla Scuola di Arte, Media e Tecnologia della Parsons School of Design (New School), è l’autore di Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art (MIT Press) e coautore (con Colleen Macklin) di Iterate.Ten Lessons in Design and Failure e (con David Thomas) Fun, Taste, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful (MIT Press). Sharp e Macklin sono i direttori del PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) alla Parsons School of Design. Ha curato numerose mostre tra cui Spacewar!: Videogames Blast Off (2012) e A Whole Different Ball Game: Playing Through 60 Years of Sports Video Games (2018, insieme a Jason Eppink) al Museum of the Moving Image. Ha co-curato XYZ: Alternative Voices in Game Design (2013) al Museum of Design-Atlanta. Come designer, ha realizzato The Metagame (2015) and Losswords (2019).
John Sharp is a designer, art