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Three Dice

November 26, 2012 Jess Leave a comment

Three Dice: A Game Villanelle Choose three dice – one black, one white, one gray. Keep them with you always.…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: challenge, game design, poetry

The Thousand Year Game Design Challenge

April 12, 2011 Jess 6 Comments

Daniel Solis has issued a challenge: can you design a game that will still be played in a thousand years?…

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Posted in: Games Filed under: contest, game design

Teaching Game Design, Part VII

March 31, 2011 Jess Leave a comment

What do the students say about the course? What do they expect to get out of it? What do they find…

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Posted in: Teaching Filed under: game design, teaching, tgd

Teaching Game Design, Part V

March 16, 2011 Jess 1 Comment

What games do you use? What criteria do you use to choose games to analyse? To what extent do you let…

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Posted in: Teaching Filed under: game design, teaching, tgd

Teaching Game Design, Part IV

March 14, 2011 Jess Leave a comment

What do the students read (or watch) to learn theory or methods of analysis? My classes are a bit unusual on…

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Posted in: Teaching Filed under: game design, teaching, tgd

Strange Systems

March 11, 2011 Jess Leave a comment

There’s a fantastic article by Simon Strange in this month’s issue of Game Developer Magazine. He talks about how to…

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Posted in: Games, Teaching Filed under: game design, systems thinking

Teaching Game Design, Part III

March 9, 2011 Jess Leave a comment

At what level is the course (or courses) taught? What are the overall learning goals of the course? What will your students…

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Posted in: Teaching Filed under: game design, teaching, tgd

Teaching Game Design, Part II

March 8, 2011 Jess 1 Comment

Describe your course and the game analysis exercises briefly, in your own words. I created the game design course sequence for…

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Posted in: Teaching Filed under: game design, teaching, tgd

Teaching Game Design, Part I

March 7, 2011 Jess 2 Comments

A few weeks ago, the inimitable Annika Waern started a discussion online about teaching game analysis. I’ve been thinking about…

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Posted in: Teaching Filed under: game design, teaching, tgd

Design for Neighborliness

November 5, 2010 Jess 2 Comments

This morning, the boy sent me this post about what works for political campaigns.  I don’t know where the information is coming from,…

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Posted in: Games, Teaching, Think Tank Filed under: game design, politics, project

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