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WhyWHY you do something is WHY you succeed.

This article is quite short, but touches on possibly an obvious truth once stated that why you do something is why you succeed. Something that I feel I've taken for granted until now. am I alone, I wonder. http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart...

Published 01-16-2010 9:48 AM by mreddy01
Exams v Coursework

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/education/8460189.stm In this article, private schools are described as wanting to move away from modular A-Levels towards "traditional" assessment by exam at the end of two years. In HE there has been an...

Published 01-15-2010 1:24 PM by mreddy01
My morning coffee wbnetz reading today is... Why your game idea sucks!

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_221/6582-Why-Your-Game-Idea-Sucks An entertaining read on The Escapist, fast becoming a personal favourite web site; not at all because they've started giving out "Achievement Badges"...

Published 09-30-2009 9:40 AM by mreddy01
Let's make sure we are worth £23K

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8205539.stm details how students will be at least £23K in debt due to studying for a degree. Last year, I (and I know others) had students stating "I pay £... a year for this." before starting to dictate what and how...

Published 08-18-2009 4:15 PM by mreddy01
Lesson 8 (LATE) - A game for Griefers

Lesson 8 of the Games Design Concepts on-line course was intended to investigate types of fun, with the homeplay challenging participants to create a game with the main mechanic being "griefing" (that is, deriving enjoyment from the act of ruining other...

Published 08-06-2009 4:56 PM by mreddy01

Filed under: GDCU09
Lesson 9 (LATE) - Put a story on a pre-existing game

Lesson 9 attempted to get the idea of narrative and story into games. Ian Schreiber posed the challenge of making the game Pente into a story mode. For reference, from his blog post, here are the original rules: Players: 2 Objective: Place your stones...

Published 08-06-2009 4:10 PM by mreddy01

Filed under: GDCU09
Working Backwards - Lesson 11 Game Design Brainstorm

Lesson 11 of the Game Design Concepts on-line course has asked for three game ideas. The constraints are as follows: 1) Create a board game, card game, or tile-laying game (that is, it must either have a board, cards, or tiles as physical components)...

Published 08-06-2009 2:44 PM by mreddy01

Filed under: GDCU09
Driven to distraction - or How to get an XBOX Live Vision Camera working on XP

Trying to get your XBox 360 Live Vision Camera working on your PC. Well, of course it SHOULD be Plug'n'Play... I have found the hack to get the XP SP3 PC in my office to finally recognise it, and you may have the same problem. If you go to the Device...

Published 07-21-2009 2:27 PM by mreddy01
EquiSCRIBBLEum - Scribblenauts evil twin (Lesson 6 homeplay)

This is homeplay for Lesson 6 "games as art/art as game" of the free online course "Game Design Concepts"; details available at http://gamedesignconcepts.wordpress.com/ The challenge, in brief was: "...a choice of designs, based not on experience level...

Published 07-19-2009 4:04 PM by mreddy01

Filed under: GDCU09
Eagle Alight - A Board Game inspired by Lunar Lander

In honour of my FAVOURITE Computer Game (Arcade), Lunar Lander, and the upcoming 40th anniversary of the (faked?) Apollo 11 Moon Landings, I present... Eagle Alight - A Lunar Lander inspired board game Use fuel, Fuel, FUEL to rotate and slow your craft...

Published 07-10-2009 3:58 PM by mreddy01

Filed under: GDCU09
Lesson 3 homeplay - Design a World War One Game

The Lesson 3 homeplay is a slightly modified form of Challenge 2-5 in the Challenges text, with an optional difficulty level based on previous experience with game design: "Most war-themed games have an objective of either territorial control or capture...

Published 07-07-2009 10:11 AM by mreddy01

Filed under: GDCU09
Second homework for GDCU course - Something for Nothing!

Lesson 2 homework was to read an article on Formal Abstract Design Tools (which I will come to later) and chapter 2 of Schreiber and Brathwaite, which included several end of chapter exercises (subsequently were confirmed as not being necessary, but desirable...

Published 07-06-2009 7:44 PM by mreddy01
First homework for GDCU module - "I have no works & I must play"

Reading for the first lesson consists of: Challenges for Game Designers , Chapter 1 (Basics). This is the course text by Ian Schreiber and Brenda Brathwaite I have no words & I must design" by Greg Costikyan. The Understanding Games series of interactive...

Published 07-01-2009 2:31 PM by mreddy01

Filed under: GDCU09
My first "homeplay" assignment - design a game in 15 minutes

Ballpoint Sumo Ballpoint Sumo is my homework for the 15 minute Board Game Challenge - details at http://gamedesignconcepts.wordpress.com/ but basically, this is the brief: "Following the four steps set forth in Level 1 (summarized below), try to create...

Published 07-01-2009 8:50 AM by mreddy01

Filed under: GDCU09
Review of Hotel Dusk

Here, after spending my birthday money, I finally get and finish (almost in one sitting) the DS game Hotel Dusk. Quality of the audio is poor towards the end (sorry) as I did this recording with the headphone mic in the car. A mistake I won't be making...

Published 06-30-2009 12:44 PM by mreddy01

Filed under: WASD Radio - The Home of Academic Games Discussion

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WhyWHY you do something is WHY you succeed.

Exams v Coursework

My morning coffee wbnetz reading today is... Why your game idea sucks!

Let's make sure we are worth £23K

Lesson 8 (LATE) - A game for Griefers

Lesson 9 (LATE) - Put a story on a pre-existing game

Working Backwards - Lesson 11 Game Design Brainstorm

Driven to distraction - or How to get an XBOX Live Vision Camera working on XP

EquiSCRIBBLEum - Scribblenauts evil twin (Lesson 6 homeplay)

Eagle Alight - A Board Game inspired by Lunar Lander

Lesson 3 homeplay - Design a World War One Game

Second homework for GDCU course - Something for Nothing!

First homework for GDCU module - "I have no works & I must play"

My first "homeplay" assignment - design a game in 15 minutes

Review of Hotel Dusk