Cultures of Video Gaming

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Wednesday, June 3 @ 3:30pm

Final period, working on final assignment and closing thoughts.

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Monday, June 1 @ 3:30pm

Open class / catching up day. Final assignment announcement.

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Wednesday, May 27 @ 3:30pm

A review of the EGW assignment.

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Wednesday, May 20 @ 3:30pm

An assignment on the Experimental Gameplay Workshop. Due next Wednesday.

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Monday, May 18 @ 3:30pm

Today we will be going over your game review assignments in Discord.

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Wednesday, May 13 @ 3:30pm

We will not be meeting today.

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Monday, May 11 @ 3:30pm

Today we will be discussing YouTubers and streamers, and the future of games media. An assignment for a game review will be given, due next Monday.

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Wednesday, May 6 @ 3:30pm

Playing and discussing the 2013 Flash game dys4ia by Anna Anthropy. Here is a list of similar games.

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Monday, May 4 @ 3:30pm

Today we will be discussing the Jonathan Blow lecture that was assigned.

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Wednesday, April 29 @ 3:30pm

Continuing the discussion of our diagrams assignment.

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Monday, April 27 @ 3:30pm

Today we will be discussing our genre diagrams, among other topics. I will be assigning a documentary film to watch by Wednesday.

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Wednesday, April 22 @ 3:30pm

We will be finishing our tour today in the first 45 minutes or so of class, then I will give a short lecture and a weekend assignment via Google Classroom.

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Monday, April 20 @ 3:30pm

Today we will be touring through everyone's ROBLOX projects together.

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Wednesday, April 15 @ 3:30pm

Today is a workday for your ROBLOX projects, with help available via Discord.

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Monday, April 13 @ 3:30pm

I enjoyed reading all your stories about early gaming experiences. Please submit yours if you haven't already! You'll be receiving my comments this week.

Your assignment this week is to create and publish a ROBLOX game. We will visit one another's games next Monday.

Submit the URL to your game via Google Classroom by then.

🙋‍♀️You may work alone, or as a group (up to 3).

🎞On publishing your first game: https://youtu.be/u-1D_0MSC00

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Wednesday, April 8 @ 3:30pm

Hi! Today we will be continuing with brief text lectures on two topics: Meta-gaming and the relationship between video games and software.

Your homework for next week (a short essay) is available via Google Classroom.

Check out the book Metagaming, and the film Tetris: From Russia With Love.

Download and make an account on ROBLOX over the weekend!

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Monday, April 6 @ 3:30pm

Hello EMDA students. Please join Discord channel #emda-410-🎮 for introductions and to obtain the code to Google Classroom in order to complete a technology survey.

Today we will be watching xbox poem, 2015 together.