Design Lab 5: Game Media [ Monday 6pm - Rm 908]
instructor: Jonah Warren
email: jonah AT feedtank DOT com
url: http://www.playfulsystems.com/teaching/2006/gamemedia
Game Genres and Experimental Game Design
(October 16th, 2006)
(October 16th, 2006)
Game Genres
- Wikipedia
[ Extensive list of video game genres, complete with descriptions and example games. ] - New Game Styles by
Greg Costikyan
[ Great powerpoint presentation on the importance of imagining new game styles. Provides some good strategies. ]
Experimental Games
Take a look at The Experimental Gameplay Project. Four Grad students make a game a week based on a certain topic. All experimental. Check out their games.
A USER INTERFACE APPROACH
- NON-GAME SYSTEMS
[ A few systems that using interesting interactive techniques. ]
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MOUSE UP AND MOUSE DOWN
- Painting with Interactive Pixels
[ Simple system based on mouseup and mousedown events. ] - Motion Phone by Scott Snibbe
[ Drawing with shapes to create abstract animations. ] - Yellowtail by Golan Levin
[ Using how you drag a line to animate it. Sonification in the downloadable version.] - Gesture Machines by Zach Lieberman
[ Experiments with gesture. ] - Letterscapes by Peter Cho
[ Formal studies in form / shape, but there are interesting interactions as well. ] - dakadaka
[ Using the whole keyboard. ]
MOUSE MOVEMENT
KEYBOARD INPUT
- Painting with Interactive Pixels
- GAME SYSTEMS
[ Games using interesting interactive techiniques. ]
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ROTATION
- Twin Spin
- Mozaik
- Roboto
- Jedi Trainer
- Flip Out
- Spin to Win
- String Avoider
- Loop
- Floats
- Crash
- Arcadia
MOUSE MOVEMENT
DRAWING
MOUSE CLICK
BASED ON A NEW SUBJECT
- Sissy Fight
[ A game based on school girls fighting. ] - Brain Buster
[ A game based on exersizing your brain (online brain age clone). ]
USING NEW TECHNOLOGY [or using old tech in new ways]
- GPS::Tron
[ Tron game remade using GPS technologies. ] - TFT Tennis V180
[ 3D Pong using monitors that swivel around. ] - Brainball
[ Battle of wits using biofeedback. ] - Red Light, Green Light [movie]
[ Red Light, Green Light game redone using a hand held screen and sensor as an interface. ] - xBlocks
[ A game combining sculpture and mutliple projections. ]