DDA-276 Game Studio 2: Mechanics,Dymamics, Aesthetics

3 Credits

• DDA-276-01

  Tuesday, Thursday

  2:00 pm – 4:20 pm

  Myrtle Hall, 3W -05

  • Viditya Voleti

• DDA-276-02

  Tuesday, Thursday

  6:00 pm – 8:20 pm

  Myrtle Hall, 3W -05

  • Swathi Sambasivam

• DDA-276-03

  Tuesday, Thursday

  9:30 am – 11:50 am

  Myrtle Hall, 3W -04

  • Nicholas O'Brien

Game Studio 2 explores the part of game design that comes after prototyping — balancing. Students engage in a series of non-digital and digital level design assignments, learning how tweaking components and variables of a pre-existing system leads to different aesthetic, narrative, and educational effects. Game research looks at genre definition, styles of level design, dynamics and mechanics to facilitate level creation.