Game Design Principles & Practice

3 units

In this studio course, students are introduced to basic principles, practices, and strategies for developing non-digital games with a focus on prototyping game design concepts around familiar materials such as cards, dice, and game tokens. Students explore narrative and visual design in this process and consider how playtesting and player feedback informs their work. This practice-based approach is supplemented with lectures, readings, and discussions about fundamental theories. Students complete the course having created a series of small scale prototypes. Evaluation is based on their ability to successfully apply course concepts to projects and class participation.