Intermediate Studio: Digital Games, Mixed Media

10 units · Undergraduate

Intermittent: 10 units Intermediate Game Studio: Digital Games, Mixed Media is a studio-based course exploring the intersections of physical and digital media in game production. Students investigate how tactile, analog, and material processes—photogrammetry and 3D capture, painting and drawing, collage, video, and improvised texture-making—can be translated into and transformed by the space of a digital game. Emphasis is placed on the friction and possibility that arise when handmade and found materials meet procedural systems. In a series of game jam exercises, students scan, photograph, cut, and reassemble physical materials, bringing them into dialogue with 3D rendering techniques and game mechanics. By the end of the semester, students will have produced a series of experimental playable works that incorporate the expressive, improvisational, and indexical qualities of physical media.