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Admin: /* Class 1 (3/5/2007) */

== Class 1 (3/5/2007) ==

'''In class'''
* Introduction
**workshop format: syllabus overview
**info-sharing and communication tools: wiki, listserv, del.icio.us

* Why BUGs?
* Presentation of BUG case studies
** Big Urban Game, PacManhattan, Conqwest, Superstar Tokyo, Mogi-Mogi, Cruel 2 B Kind, Identity, Uncle Roy All Around You / Bot Fighters
** game context (what occasion, what location)
** gameplay (rules, who played, objective)
** implementation (technology, infrastructure, additional components)

'''Assignments'''

'''1. GAME 1: NROG''' (New Rules, Old Games)

[[Image:Ghettopoly.jpg]]

* 4 teams of 4
* You will remix a game; create a new rule set for an old game
* choose from [http://www.hasbro.com/scrabble/pl/page.rules/dn/home.cfm '''Scrabble'''], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_chess '''Chess'''], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_checkers '''Chinese Checkers'''], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(board_game)#Rules '''Go'''], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_(game) '''Risk''']

* Quick analysis the existing game vis-a-vis its
** '''Rules''' - ''What are the rules? What components (game board, pieces) are used?''
** '''Gameplay''' - ''How do you play it? What are you supposed to do? What types of strategies, offensive/defensive/etc., are developed?''
** '''Experience''' - ''What do you feel playing it? Does it encourage conflict/tension? Or cooperation? Why is the game fun (or not)? What are key dramatic, pivotal moments in the game?''

* Create a new game based on the existing game
** How are the above criteria altered after your intervention?
* Prepare a short presentation that includes
** your analyses of the pre- and post-op games
** a concise documentation of your '''NROG''' (see examples)
** be prepared to play the game in the following class (we'll set aside 20 minutes for presentation and play).

'''2. URBAN ANALYSIS'''

'naked city image here'
'new york area code'

* Each group will pick a urban feature of New York to analyze
* Scale of the 'site' can vary: a particular block, blocks, landmark, neighborhood, street, one borough, all five boroughs, etc.
* Focus on a set of salient data points of your site, for example:
** '''S''' (block): location of mailboxes or phone booths, pedestrian behavior, traffic patterns
** '''M''' (neighborhood): arrangement of streets, deployment of bldg numbers, building heights
** '''L''' (Manhattan): locations of Starbucks, ethnic pockets, real estate values, zoning patterns
** '''XL''' (metropolitan New York): MTA subway routes, interborough traffic patterns, borough identities, zip codes
* Record/map/examine the the data you find: How does the urban infrastructure influence behavior around the site? What dynamic systems (rules, forces, and movement patterns) are at work? How is your site physically defined?
* Diagram and record this information into a ''single drawing or physical model''
** documentation should be abstract and diagrammatic

'''Resources'''
*[http://makezine.com/08/boardgames/ ''Make Magazine Issue 8: Toys and Games'', 'Homebrew Game Design'], pp.50-53

*[http://www.amazon.com/Rules-Play-Game-Design-Fundamentals/dp/0262240459/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-1234027-9706027?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173041907&sr=8-1 ''Rules of Play''], Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman
**''Ironclad'' (p. 286-297), commissioned game by Frank Lantz
**Chapter 9: The Magic Circle, p.93-99
*''General Suggested Reading:''
**Unit 1: Core Concepts, pp.28-105
**Unit 2: Rules, pp.116-285
**Unit 3: Play, pp.298-487

*[http://www.amazon.com/Game-Design-Reader-Rules-Anthology/dp/0262195364/ref=pd_sim_b_3/105-1234027-9706027?ie=UTF8&qid=1173041907&sr=8-1 ''The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology''], Salen and Zimmerman, eds.
**''Tools for Creating Dramatic Game Dynamics'' (pp.438-459), Marc Leblanc
**''Game Design as Narrative Architecture'' (pp.670-689), Henry Jenkins

*[http://gamasutra.com/features/20060810/ruberg_01.shtml ''Gamasutra'' interview with Frank Lantz]

*[http://www.amazon.com/Rules-Classic-Games-Wayne-Schmittberger/dp/0471536210/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-1234027-9706027?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173042957&sr=1-1'' New Rules for Classic Games''], R. Wayne Schmittberger
** Chess remixes, p.185
** Go remixes, p.58
** Scrabble remixes, p.87
** Chinese Checkers remixes, p.8
** Risk remixes, p.48

* [http://www.amazon.com/Image-City-Kevin-Lynch/dp/0262620014 ''Image of the City''], Kevin Lynch. "The City Image and its Elements," pp.46-90

== Class 2 (3/19/2007) ==
'''In class'''
*Play / critique SAGs
*Guest: Ariel Churi
* Discussion of Urban Site Analysis
* Discussion of GAME 2: SSUG (small somewhat urban game)

'''Assignments'''
GAME 2: SSUG (small somewhat urban game)

* Create a game by distilling the Urban Site Analysis into an abstract, diagrammatic representation
** aka as a gameboard
** design a game around what you have learned in your site analysis, using scale, data points, dynamic systems
** generate a rule set for your game, but is abstract -- played out on gameboard
** prepare a basic outline of the incomplete game for presentation - overview, rules, gameplay, pieces, open questions

'''Resources'''
* "The Good Life, roundtable discussions
** Fun City, Connected City

* Archigram

*The Situationist International
**Architecture and Play, p.213
**Situationist Space, p. 241

== Class 3 (3/26/2007) ==
'''In class'''
* Technology / media survey presentation
** tools, the state of the art
** techniques
** GPS, ubiquitous computing, mobile tech, open mapping protocols (google/yahoo maps)

* Play/critique SSUGs (20-25 mins each)
Guest: Amit

* Discussion of GAME 2-3: SSUG --> BIG (big urban game)

'''Assignments'''
<pre>

GAME 2-3: SSUG --> BIG (big urban game)

ONE BIG GAME

1. Choose one game in the class to develop further?
2. Begin to concept out a new big game as a class?

SEVERAL BIG GAMES

1. Continue to refine individual SSUGs into BUGs
2. Being to concept out new big games in individual groups

Play/develop game in the real space of the city"
</pre>

'''Resources'''

== Class 4 (4/2/2007) ==
'''In class'''
*Guest presentation: Frank Lantz

"Play/critique/evaluate BUGs

'''Assignments'''
* Continue to design / develop / playtest / refine BUG

'''Resources'''

== Class 5 (4/9/2007) ==
'''In class'''
*Guest presentation: Carlos Gomez de Llarrenna
* Guest presentation: Come Out and Play kids

* Play/critique/evaluate BUGs

'''Assignments'''
* Continue to design / develop / playtest / refine BUG
'''Resources'''

== Class 6 (4/16/2007) ==
'''In class'''
* Guest presentation: Midnight Madness crew

'''Assignments'''
* Continue to design / develop / playtest / refine BUG
** final review will be played by members of Columbia GSAPP community, not by BUG class students

'''Resources'''

== Final Review (TBD) ==