GSD 390

Fall 2022 All Classes

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Special Topics in Game Studies & Design

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Credit: 1 TO 3 hours.

Advanced study or skills-based instruction in an emerging or special topic related to Game Studies and Design not covered in normal course offerings.

Approved for Letter and S/U grading. May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Other prerequisites as specified for each topic offering. See Class Schedule.

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GSD 390 class schedule data for fall 2022
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
77651	Lecture	BGD	9:00AM -10:40AM	M	182 Armory	Bequette, K	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/17/22-12/07/22 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Intro to Board Game Design Section Info: Introduction to Board Game Design. In this course, students will learn the process of designing a boardgame including ideation, paper prototyping, playtesting, feedback / revision and planning for fabrication. Course material will focus on integrating a game’s themes and mechanics as well as player feedback in order to rapidly prototype fun games. This course introduces various types of game design, and fosters key concepts related to design thinking and design learning.
78029	Lecture-Discussion	DBU	5:30PM -6:40PM	F	G8A Foreign Languages Building	Baird, D	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/17/22-12/07/22 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Introduction to Unreal Section Info: This course is intended to be a beginning introduction to the video game development engine Unreal Engine 4. Starting from the ground up, it will introduce you to the interfaces, systems, structure, and general workings of UE 4. Over the course of the class you will be putting together a simple game that can act as both a personal reference for what you’ve learned as well as a demo for your portfolio. The course is intended to be for both experienced developers who wish to learn about UE4 and how it functions, as well as beginners who wish to start making headway into game development & design. BYOL course (Bring Your Own Laptop).
78012	Laboratory	JVA	5:00PM -6:40PM	W	182 Armory	Cermak, D Velazquez, J	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/17/22-12/07/22 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Intro to 3D Game Art (Blender) Section Info: This course is designed to build a strong foundation for Game Art Development. You will become familiar with Blender’s interface and navigating the 3-D workspace, build a strong working knowledge of the basics for 3-D modeling and design. You will learn the basic skills needed to create 3d models and apply textures and lighting and get a feel for animating, and rendering. Blender is available for Windows and Mac OS. BYOL course (Bring Your Own Laptop).
77859	Laboratory-Discussion	WGP	5:00PM -6:40PM	M	182 Armory	Gillespie, W	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/17/22-12/07/22 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Unbound Book: Literature Games Section Info: From dictionaries to swatch books to flip-books, the bound book has always been open to new ways of navigating pages beyond the front-to-back linear read. In the Twentieth Century, while the novel and poetry were ongoing laboratories for reinventing literary form, game designers created Choose Your Own Adventure Books and other puzzles in book form. In this course, we will look at some of the most well-known examples of literature that rethought ways of storytelling and ways of using the book. We will also look at practitioners—individual writers and groups—who pursued a systematic rearrangement of traditional linearity.