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Information Design

If you’re taking new media 2 in the Spring, you should download and study this:
Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design is a manual aimed at helping NGOs and advocates strengthen their campaigns and projects through communicating vital information with greater impact. This project aims to raise awareness, introduce concepts, and promote good [...]

Game Design Assignment

The design document template is up for download on the course calendar page.
If you’re interested, here are some links to design document information.  Al Lowe, David Jaffe. Hulk.

Modularity and Scale

Jessica Sanner is learning the value of building complexity via small bits that add up to a larger whole, a valuable lesson even for advanced coders. Build components, test, evaluate, iterate.
I am also finding that it is much less overwhelming to build the game one section or concept at a time. I am First adding [...]

Games and Story

A thoughtful observation from Jess Sanner on trends in games:
It seems as though a great majority of video games are stuck in a world of Me Vs You or Me VS AI and this is very dangerous and stifles creativity. It’s time to move past the point of a game being to simply win or [...]