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On November 27 2019, game designer Pietro Polsinelli led a workshop on merging storytelling principles and game design tools for the students of the Master of Arts in Game Design at IULM University. The workshop took place at Cascina Moncucco during GAME CONTEXTS, one of the Program’s core courses. It was also open to all alumni of the M.A. Program.
When defining the narrative of a game, even at the concept level, it is useful to write down short characters bios, articulate the game's background universe, outline the possible endings and so on. Writing a sample dialogue or textual introduction can reveal several hidden or undefined features required and how they should interact with the game mechanics. Polsinelli will illustrate the development of the recent Football Drama, and how that process was expanded for his next project, Roller Drama concept design, pointing out some specific concepts needed when making narratives and mechanics interact. Students will work together with Pietro to add narrative background research and mechanics to their projects.
Pietro Polsinelli is a game designer and developer, mostly working on applied (a.k.a. educational) games. He co-authored a book on applied games in Italian and is currently writing a book on applied games (in English) titled Explaining With Games.
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Master of Arts in Game Design
IULM University
June 27 2018
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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.
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Rory meets with John, Adrian, Duncan and Marko outside the studio while everyone gets sorted for a presentation
The Globaloria team travelled to Huntsville, Alabama to familiarize new teachers with the Globaloria program, how to implement it in their classrooms, and engage their students on their game design journeys.
ilustração feita a mão e finalizada digitalmente.
Foi desenvolvida para compor a tela de início de um projeto de game.
Playtesting 'Flying winemakers', my board game concept about producing and tasting wine. From a session with friends in February 2007. Beta prototype will be finished in June.
MARCH 27 2019/27 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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PLAYING POLITICS: HEADSHOT!
In this talk, media artist and activist Joseph DeLappe will describe a lineage of creative projects and actions situated at the intersections of computer gaming, art/technology, and interventionist strategies engaging our geopolitical contexts. DeLappe will detail an approach to considering computer gaming environments online as a new type of public space; within which he has conducted a series of interventionist performances and actions, such as the 2006 project dead‐in‐iraq, to type consecutively, all names of America's military casualties from the war in Iraq into the America's Army first-person shooter online recruiting game. More recent projects include Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides (2018), a self-playing mod as a data visualizer of gun homicides in the United States as realized through this popular video game.
Joseph DeLappe is Professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland. Works in online gaming performance, public engagements, participatory sculpture and electromechanical installation have been shown throughout the United States and internationally. He has developed works for venues such as Eyebeam Art and Technology in New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, China and Transitio MX, Mexico City, among others. Creative works and actions have been featured widely in scholarly journals, books and in the popular media. In 2016 he collaborated with the Biome Collective in Dundee to create Killbox, a game about drone warfare that was nominated in 2017 for a BAFTA Scotland in the “Best Computer Game” category. In 2017 he was awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts, one of the top awards for artists, writers and creatives in the United States.
POLITICA IN GIOCO: HEADSHOT!
In questo intervento, il media artist e attivista Joseph DeLappe illustra progetti, interventi e azioni creative che si collocano all’intersezione tra videogioco, arte, tecnologia e ideologia in differenti contesti geopolitici. DeLappe considera i videogiochi online una nuova tipologia di spazio pubblico, un palcoscenico virtuale nel quale dare vita a performance di ogni tipo. Gli interventi di DeLappe includono dead-in-iraq (2006), che prevedeva l’inserimento via chat dei nomi delle vittime militari statunitensi della guerra in Iraq nel videogioco di reclutamento online America’s Army fino al recentissimo Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides (2018), una modifica del popolare action game di Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto V, che visualizza in tempo reale le statistiche sugli omicidi da arma da fuoco negli Stati Uniti.
Joseph DeLappe è Professor of Games and Tactical Media presso l’Abertay University di Dundee, Scozia. La sua pratica privilegia le performance di gioco online e in pubblico, la scultura partecipativa e le installazioni elettromeccaniche sono state esposte negli Stati Uniti e a livello internazionale. Ha creato installazioni site-specific per Eyebeam Art and Technology a New York, The Guangdong Museum of Art, Cina e Transitio MX, a Città del Messico, tra gli altri. Le sue opere e performance sono state citate su riviste accademiche, libri e mass media. Nel 2016 ha collaborato con il Biome Collective di Dundee per creare Killbox, un videogioco che tematizza l’uso dei droni finalista dei premi BAFTA 2017 nella categoria Best Computer Game. Nel 2017 ha ottenuto la Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts, uno dei riconoscimenti più prestigiosi per artisti, scrittori e creativi negli Stati Uniti.
Playful is a one-day event all about games and play – in all their manifestations, throughout the contemporary media landscape. It’s a conference for architects, artists, designers, developers, geeks, gurus, gamers, tinkerers, thinkerers, bloggers, joggers, and philosophers. We look at what PLAY means both creatively and culturally, and put speakers on the stage who offer different perspectives on where we are currently, where we’ve been, and where we’re going. We want people walking away talking about the nature of games…what they mean to different people inside, on the periphery, outside or miles away from the industry.
Master of Arts in Game Design
IULM University
June 27 2018
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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:
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BLIND & VR: UN POSTMORTEM
Un piccolo studio italiano avvia nel 2014 lo sviluppo di Blind, un’avventura narrativa in realtà virtuale che vedrà la luce nel 2018: dopo quattro anni di sviluppo e otto mesi dall’introduzione sul mercato, il fondatore e game designer Matteo Lana fa il punto della situazione, ripercorrendo le tappe fondamentali del progetto. In questa presentazione, Lana illustra il percorso travagliato tra tecnologie emergenti, imprevisti, successi e “quasi fallimenti", competitor inaspettati e un team di sviluppo a dir poco fluido, per arrivare a rispondere alla domanda che ogni game designer si pone praticamente tutti i giorni: Ne è valsa la pena?
Our Game Design faculty and students attended the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week! Here we have Brian Winn (back row, left), Greg Kozma (front row, left), Liang Cui (middle), and William Jeffery (right) in front of their booth! Read more: cas.msu.edu/game-design-faculty-and-students-attend-gdc/
Osmos allows fluid interaction through gestural commands, taking advantage of the highly accurate multitouch capabilities of modern touch screens.
Ferrara, John. 2012. Playful Design. New York: Rosenfeld Media. www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/game-design/
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