Art Games Schedule

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Tuesday 09.01, Thursday 09.03
Week 1: Introduction, Context, Components
Content:
- Syllabus
- Intro to Game Engines
- Intro to Art that uses Game Engines
- Intro Project 1 - Navigable Space
Assignment:
- Complete the readings below and post reflections on Canvas.
- Brainstorm (post to Canvas) ideas for P1 and be ready to discuss in class.
- Download and install Unity3D (or alt if preferred)
- Start watching Unity3D Essentials: UF LinkedIn Art Games - Unity Essentials
Readings:
- Navigable Space, by Lev Manovich
- Realtime Art Manifesto, by Auriea Harvey, Michael Samyn
Tuesday 09.08, Thursday 09.10
Week 2: Intro to Game Studies
Content:
- Discuss readings.
- Review ideas for Navigable Space (P1).
Assignment:
- Complete the readings below and post reflections on Canvas.
- Develop Navigable Space (P1)
Readings:
- Immediacy, Hypermediacy, and Remediation. In Remediation : Understanding New Media, J. David Bolter
- Genre Trouble: Narrativism and the Art of Simulation, Espen Aarseth, In First Person : New Media as Performance and Game, pp 45-55 (ed Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Pat Harrigan)
Tuesday 09.15, Thursday 09.17
Week 3: Remediation
Content:
- Discuss readings.
- VIEW: Adam Killer to Sak's 5th to Level5, Brody Condon
- Work on P1
Assignment:
- Complete the readings below and post reflections on Canvas.
- Develop P1
Readings:
- Introduction to Critical Play (Ch 1) and Playing House (Ch 2), in Critical Play: Radical Game Design, Flanagan, Mary 2013
Tuesday 09.22, Thursday 09.24
Week 4: Sociality
Content:
- Discuss readings.
- Progress Review 1
- VIEW: Velvet Strike, Anne-Marie Schleiner
- SCREENING: Cut Piece, Yoko Ono
- Work on P1 - due next week, so begin to finalize!
Assignment:
- Complete the readings below and post reflections on Canvas.
- Finalize Navigable Space (P1)
Readings:
- Games as Cultural Rhetoric In Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals, Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman.
- Critical Play - Chapters 5: Performative Games and Objects, and 6: Artist's Locative Games
Tuesday 09.29, Thursday 10.01
Week 5: Subjectivity
Content:
- CRITIQUE Navigable Space (P1)
- Discuss readings (upon crit completion)
- Introduce Semester Project (P2, P3, P4)
Assignment:
- Complete the readings below and post reflections on Canvas.
- Begin work on P2 Concept Development
- Brainstorm ideas for project and be prepared to discuss!
Readings:
- Immersion Vs. Interactivity: Virtual Reality and Literary Theory. Postmodern Culture 5, No. 1 (1994), Marie-Laure Ryan.
- The Immersive Fallacy. In Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals, Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman.
Tuesday 10.06, Thursday 10.08
Week 6: Immersion
Content:
- Discuss Readings
- Discuss your project ideas (brainstorm).
- Work on P2
Assignment:
- Complete the readings below and post reflections on Canvas.
- Finalize P2 for critique next week.
Readings:
- Simulation 101: Simulation Versus Representation by Gonzalo Frasca.
- Social Realism in Gaming. Game Studies 4, No. 1 (2004). Galloway, Alexander R.
Tuesday 10.13, Thursday 10.15
Week 7: Simulation
Content:
- CRITIQUE Concept Generation P2 (Tue and Thurs)
Assignment:
- Complete the readings below and post reflections on Canvas.
- Consider P2 and begin work on Semester Project (P3).
Readings:
Tuesday 10.20, Thursday 10.22
Week 8: Violence
Content:
- Discuss Readings
- Work on Semester Project (P3)
Assignment:
- Complete the readings below and post reflections on Canvas.
- Work on Semester Project (P3).
Readings:
- Game Mechanics: Describing Computer-Augmented Games in Terms of Interaction. by Sus Lundgren and Staffan Bjork.
- The Core Mechanic. In Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals, Salen, Katie, and Eric Zimmerman.
Tuesday 10.27, Thursday 10.29
Week 9: Interactivity/Interface
Content:
- Discuss Readings
- Progress Review 2
- Work on P3
Assignment:
- Complete the readings below and post reflections on Canvas.
Readings:
- Immaterial Labor: A Worker's History of Videogaming (Ch 1), Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games, Dyer-Witherford, Nick and De Peuter, Greig, 2009
- Cognitive Capitalism (Chapter 2), Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games, Dyer-Witherford, Nick and De Peuter, Greig, 2009
Tuesday 11.03,
Week 10: Capitalism
Content:
- Discuss Readings.
Assignment
- Complete the readings below and post reflections on Canvas.
- Develop Semester Project.
Readings:
- Introduction: Edge Effects, in Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games, Chang, Alenda, 2019
Tuesday 11.10, Thursday 11.12
Week 11: Climate
Content:
- WORK WORK WORK!
Assignment:
- Complete the readings below and post reflections on Canvas.
- Work on P3.
Readings:
- Chess for Girls?: Feminism and Video Games, From Barbie to Mortal Kombat : Gender and Computer Games. Cassell, Justine, and Henry Jenkins.
- Videogames and Gendered Invisibility (Chapter 11), Patridge, Stephanie in Robson, Jon, and Grant Tavinor, eds. 2018. The Aesthetics of Videogames.
Tuesday 11.17, Thursday 11.19
Week 12: Gender
Content:
- Discuss Readings.
- Progress Review 3.
- Integrate comments from review and work on P3
Assignment:
- Complete the readings below and post reflections on Canvas.
- WORK on P3.
Readings:
- Playing Virtual Jim Crow in Mafia III - Prosthetic Memory via Historical Digital Games and the Limits of Mass Culture, Emil Lundedal Hammar
Tuesday 11.24, Tuesday 11.24
Week 13: Race and Racism
Content:
- Discuss Readings
Assignment:
- WORK, WORK, WORK!
Readings:
- Metagaming: Videogames and the Practice of Play, Boluk, Stephanie and Lemieux, Patrick 2017
Tuesday 12.01, Thursday 12.03
Week 14: Metagaming
Content:
- Discuss readings
- Play Footnotes on itch.io
- WORK, WORK, WORK!
Assignment:
- Finalize Semester Project P3.
- Begin to finalize your documentation - P4.
Readings:
- What happens when Artificial Intelligence and Human Creativity meet? - WATCH DOCUFILM
Tuesday 12.08
Week 15: Artificial Intelligence - THE GAME
Content:
- Discuss Artificial Intelligence.
- SCREEN: Serious Games I: Watson is Down by Harun Farocki
- This is it...be done!
Assignment:
- Finish Projects 3 and 4 and prepare for Final Crit!
Readings:
- Artificial Intelligence for Beginners
No Class.
Week 16: N/A
Content: NoneAssignment: NoneReadings: None
Tuesday 12.15
Exam Week: Final Exams - final review 7:30AM - 9:30AM.
Each student will have 10 minutes to show and discuss (crit) their final project.

Art Games Schedule

Week 1: Introduction, Context, Components

Week 2: Intro to Game Studies

Week 3: Remediation

Week 4: Sociality

Week 5: Subjectivity

Week 6: Immersion

Week 7: Simulation

Week 8: Violence

Week 9: Interactivity/Interface

Week 10: Capitalism

Week 11: Climate

Week 12: Gender

Week 13: Race and Racism

Week 14: Metagaming

Week 15: Artificial Intelligence - THE GAME

Week 16: N/A

Exam Week: Final Exams - final review 7:30AM - 9:30AM.