The Art of Game Design a Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell Crc Press 2015 9781466598645

The course has two primal texts:

[Gee] = Gee, James Paul. What Video Games Have To Teach United states of america About Learning and Literacy. St. Martin'south Griffin, 2007. ISBN: 9781403984531.

[Schell] = Schell, Jesse. The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses. A One thousand Peters / CRC Press, 2014. ISBN: 9781466598645. [Preview with Google Books]

WEEK #	TOPICS	READINGS
1	Introduction	None
2	Designing Curriculum for Commercial Off the Shelf Games	Hunicke, Robin, Marc LeBlanc, et al. "MDA: A Formal Arroyo to Game Gesign and Game Enquiry." 2004. [Gee] Chapters 1 and 2.
3	Designing Curriculum for Commercial Off the Shelf Games	[Gee] Capacity 3 and four. Duncan, Sean. "Fiasco and Failure: Uncovering Hidden Rules in a Story Game." Well Played: A Journal on Video Games, Value and Meaning 3, no. one (2014): eleven-32. Nealen, Andrew. "Ascension: A Case Study in Deck Building Games." (PDF - 1.1MB) Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA), 2013. Duncan, Sean. "Minecraft, Beyond Construction & Survival." Well Played: A Journal on Video Games, Value and Meaning 1, no. 1 (2011): i–22. Learning with Computer Games & Simulations. The Center for Implementing Technology in Education.
four	Designing Curriculum for Commercial Off the Shelf Games	[Gee] Chapters five and 6. Harger, Bakker. "Improv." ETC Press & Morningstar, and Segedy. "Fiasco Companion Excerpt." 2011. Berland, Matthew. "Understanding Strategic Boardgames as Computational Thinking Training Machines." ETC Press, 2011. Turkle, Sherry. "What We Build." In Falling for Scientific discipline: Objects in Mind. MIT Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780471137740. Lauwaert, Maaike. "Challenge Everything?: Construction Play in Volition Wright's SimCity." Games and Culture 2, no. 3 (2007): 194–212.
five	Multiplayer Games	[Gee] Chapters vii and eight. Levy, Frank, and Richard J. Murnane. "How Computerized Work and Globalization Shape Man Skill Demands." In Learning in the Global Era: International Perspectives on Globalization and Teaching. University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780520254367. Johnson, Soren. "Playing the Odds." Gamasutra. March 16, 2010. Squire, Kurt, et al. "From Users to Designers: Building a Self-Organizing Game-Based Learning Environment." TechTrends: Linking Inquiry & Do to Improve Learning 49, no. five (2005): 34–43. Steinkuehler, Constance, and Sean Duncan. "Scientific Habits of Mind in Virtual Worlds." Journal of Science Teaching and Engineering 17, no. vi (2008): 530–43.
6	Game Gurriculum Presentations	None
7	Game Curriculum Presentations (cont.)	None
eight	Board Games	Optional Readings [Schell] Chapters 1 and 2.
9	Board Games (cont.)	Readings Due Nicholson, Scott. "From Settlers to Quarriors: Breaking upwards the Monopoly with Modern Board Game Design." Modern Board Game Colloquim 2011. September 13, 2011. Optional Readings [Schell] Capacity 3 and four. Presentations Bogost. "Procedural Rhetoric." In Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames. MIT Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780262514880. Salen, Katie, et al. "Game Based Learning & Knowing." In Quest to Larn: Developing the School for Digital Kids. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning. MIT Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780262515658. [Complimentary download available]
x	Board Games (cont.)	Readings Due Daviau, Selinker, et al. Excerpts - Kobold Guide to Lath Game Design_._ Open Blueprint LLC, 2012. ISBN: 9781936781041. Optional Readings [Schell] Capacity 5 and half dozen. Pulsipher, Lewis. "Characteristics of Boards." Gamasutra. January 26, 2015. Presentations Joplin, Laura. "On Defining Experiential Instruction." Journal of Experiential Education 4, no. one (1981): 17-20. McGonigal, Jane. "Why I Love Bees: A Case Report in Collective Intelligence Gaming." (PDF) The Environmental of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning (2008): 199–228.
xi	Board Games (cont.)	Optional Readings [Schell] Chapters 7 and 8. Presentations Wiggins, Grant, and Jay McTighe. Understanding by Design. Association for Supervision & Curriculum Evolution, 2005. ISBN: 9781416600350. [Preview with Google Books] Mislevy, Robert, et al. "A Cursory Introduction to Evidence Centered Design." ETS Inquiry Report Serial 2003, no. one (2013): 2003.
12	Board Games (cont.)	Optional Readings [Schell] Chapters 9 and 10. Presentations Kafai, Yasmin, and Deborah Fields. "Playgrounds for Millions" and "Identity Play." In Connected Play: Tweens in a Virtual World. MIT Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780262019934. [Preview with Google Books] Ito, Mizuko, et al. "Gaming." In Hanging Out, Messing Effectually, and Geeking Out—Kids Living and Learning with New Media. MIT Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780262518543.
thirteen	Lath Games (cont.)	Optional Readings [Schell] Chapters 11 and 12. Presentations Stevens, Reed, et al. "In-Game, In-Room, In-World: Reconnecting Video Game Play to the Rest of Kids' Lives." In The Environmental of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning. MIT Press_,_ 2008, 41–66. ISBN: 9780262195751. Squire, Kurt. "From Content to Context: Videogames equally Designed Experience." Educational Researcher 35, no. 8 (2006): 19–29.
fourteen	Lath Game Presentations	None
fifteen	Board Game Presentations (cont.)	None
16	Digital Games	Readings Due Bogost, Ian. "Intro, Empathy, Exercise, Conclusion_._" In _How to Do Things With Video Games._ Academy of Minnesota Printing, 2011. ISBN: 9780816676477. Optional Bogost, Ian. "The Cathedral of Computation." The Atlantic Monthly. Jan 15, 2015.
17	Digital Games (cont.)	Readings Due "A-Games Educator Survey." (PDF - 9.7MB) NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and University of Michigan School of Learning. 2014.
18	Digital Games (cont.)	Zimmerman, Eric. "Play equally Inquiry: The Iterative Blueprint Procedure (PDF - five.2MB)." 2003.
19	Digital Games (cont.)	None
xx	Digital Games (cont.)	Excerpt from Flanagan, Mary. Critical Play: Radical Game Design. MIT Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780262518659.
21	Digital Games (cont.)	Fullerton, Tracy. "Playtesting." Affiliate 9 inGame Pattern Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games. AK Peters/CRC Press, 2014. ISBN: 9781482217162.
22	Digital Games (cont.)	Wilson, Douglas. "Designing for the Pleasures of Disputation." (PDF - 6.2MB) 2012. Consalvo, Mia. "Adulterous Can Be Healthy: Educational Games and Multiple Playstyles." In Beyond Fun: Serious Games and Media. ETC Press, 2007.
23	Digital Games (cont.)	None
24	Digital Games (cont.)	Shute, Valerie. Stealth Cess: Measuring and Supporting Learning in Video Games. MIT Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780262518819. [Preview with Google Books]
25	Digital Games presentations	None
26	Digital Games presentations (cont.)	None

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