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Apr 29, 2024
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Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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GAME 312 Interactive Media Studies3 credits
This course will explore the formal, aesthetic, and cultural aspects of interactive experience and the relationship of digital games to traditional games and other media. Students will examine interactive media from an academic standpoint: history, aesthetics, genres, cultural context, and social significance. Students will deconstruct and analyze various forms of interactive media such as card and board games to develop an understanding of their theory and structure. Students will explore the intersection of technology, user experience, user interface, game design and publishing, and the impact of digital technology on mass media and personal social interactions.
Prerequisites: Admission to GAME BAS program or instructor permission
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Investigate the social, cultural, and historical contexts and aesthetics of games and interactive media
- Analyze the significant elements and principles of interactive media
- Develop demographic and psychographic profiles based on user data
- Design user experiences and user interfaces
- Produce gameplay structure and mechanics
- Integrate social interaction into game design
- Create gameplay scenarios
- Write game design documents
- Utilize statistics in demographics and gameplay mechanics and calculate probability outcomes
- Balance the difficulty level of gameplay and challenge versus reward scenarios
- Evaluate the social outcome of gameplay and interactive experiences
Program Outcomes
This course teaches to the following program outcome:
- analyze all of the core areas of digital game design and interactive development while allowing for in-depth focus and development on a small subset targeted at industry specialization
Global Outcomes
This course teaches to the global outcomes of intercultural appreciation and teamwork.
Total Hours: 40 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 20 Guided Practice (Lab or Clinical) Hours: 20
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