changes week 13

SUMMARY

• I stayed inside and played video games

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

Unity – C#

• The applications written in #C use the .NET FRAMEWORK

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

MDA Notes

• Mechanics
• Dynamics
• Aesthetics

Eight types of aesthetics

1. Sensation (Game as sense-pleasure): Player enjoys memorable audio-visual effects.
2. Fantasy (Game as make-believe): Imaginary world.
3. Narrative (Game as drama): A story that drives the player to keep coming back
4. Challenge (Game as obstacle course): Urge to master something. Boosts a game’s replayability.
5. Fellowship (Game as social framework): A community where the player is an active part of it. Almost exclusive for multiplayer games.
6. Discovery (Game as uncharted territory): Urge to explore game world.
7. Expression (Game as self-discovery): Own creativity. For example, creating character resembling player’s own avatar.
8. Submission (Game as pastime): Connection to the game, as a whole, despite of constraints.

• Mechanics are the base components of the game – its rules, every basic action the player can take in the game, the algorithms and data structures in the game engine etc.
  • Dynamics are the run-time behavior of the mechanics acting on player input and “cooperating” with other mechanics.
  • Aesthetics are the emotional responses evoked in the player.

Brainstorm Ideas for Each of the Eight Categories

• At least one idea per category, but feel free to add more you your favorite categories
• Write a short sentence for each idea with these three elements included in each description
  • Someone or thing fighting/struggling against Someone or thing for Someone or thing

DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

1. Sensation (Game as sense-pleasure): The player enjoys memorable audio-visual effects.
   • you player can sense when someone is around it
2. Fantasy (Game as make-believe): Imaginary world.
   • a different galaxy that has multiple alien civilizations
3. Narrative (Game as drama): A story that drives the player to keep coming back This could be a super hero type of theme where he keeps coming back until he reaches his goal
4. Challenge (Game as obstacle course): Urge to master something. Boosts a game’s replayability.
   • There can be an option to replay a level so that the person can get better at it
5. Fellowship (Game as social framework): A community where the player is an active part of it. Almost exclusive for multiplayer games.
   • The player will make the community intact and alive so that the game does not die out
6. Discovery (Game as uncharted territory): Urge to explore the game world.
7. Expression (Game as self-discovery): Own creativity. For example, creating a character resembling player’s own avatar.
   • people will have the ability to customize and create their own characters
8. Submission (Game as pastime): Connection to the game, as a whole, despite of constraints.

OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY, PRODUCTIVITY & THE BRAIN)

STUDIO (CREATIVITY)

• • 
  • coding a video game is a lot harder than it looks

CONTROL ROOM (PRODUCTION)

•  Using a web-based service like GitHub means their service acts as the server.

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

• I learned that coding a game is really a lot of thinking and time consuming