WDKA Games and Storytelling

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WDKA - Games and Storytelling

• Tijmen Schep

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WDKA - Games and Storytelling

• Goal
• Why study Games?
• Overview
• Today

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WDKA - Games and Storytelling

• Goal
• ...

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WDKA - Games and Storytelling

• Goal
• To understand games from
• a number of perspectives

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WDKA - Games and Storytelling

• Production proces
• Formally
• Individually
• Culturally

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WDKA - Games and Storytelling

• Production proces ? Build a game
• Formally ? Games as rule-systems
• Individually ? Playing and enjoying games
• Culturally ? Learn, debate, understand

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WDKA - Games and Storytelling

• Why study Games?
• ...

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WDKA - Games and Storytelling

• Games are VERY important

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WDKA - Games and Storytelling

• Relatively new field
• (at least digitally)
• which is much debated

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• Digital Games offer a
• new vehicle for cultural expression
• (digital games remediate analog games)

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• Games are big business
• (but not nearly as big as Hollywood yet..)

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• Most importantly
• People love to play
• It appeals to something inside of us
• Which could be 'tapped' to make life more fun
• (or so the serious game rhetoric goes..)

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• Compulsory History Lesson
• People are players

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WDKA - Games and Storytelling
Culture

• Johan Huizinga
• (1872-1945)
• Homo Ludens
• (1938)

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WDKA - Games and Storytelling
Culture

• People love work
• but
• They also love play

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• Take
• Play
• Seriously

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WDKA - Games and Storytelling
Individual reception

• Games as a 'magic circle'
• All play moves and has its being within a
  play-ground marked off beforehand either
  materially or ideally, deliberately or as a
  matter of course. Just as there is no formal
  difference between play and ritual, so the
  consecrated spot cannot be formally
  distinguished from the play-ground. The arena,
  the card-table, the magic circle, the temple, the
  stage, the screen, the tennis court, the court of
  justice, etc, are all in form and function
  play-grounds, i.e. forbidden spots, isolated,
  hedged round, hallowed, within which special
  rules obtain. All are temporary worlds within the
  ordinary world, dedicated to the performance of
  an act apart (Huizinga).

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WDKA - Games and Storytelling

• For Huizinga play is everywhere,
• because it is a mindstate.
• What is play?
• What is a game?

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• Overview
• ...

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WDKA - Games and Storytelling

• Week 1-4
• Designing a fun game
• - Develop concept
• - Define rulesets
• - Paper prototyping
• Week 5
• Checkpoint Presentation
• week 5 and on
• Developing a protoype/creating a modification
• Week 9
• Final Presentation

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WDKA - Games and Storytelling

• Scoring points
• Look at the online Excelsheet.
• - 5 points for game analysis
• - 10 points for presence
• - 10 points for originality
• - 10 points for professionalism (teamplay
  presentation style)
• - 20 points for insight into proces
• - 45 points for the endresult

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• Game analysis
• Every week 2/3 students will
• analyse present a game

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• Things we will look at
• Play vs Games, Ludus Paidea, Generative vs
  Narrative, Ludology Narratology, Interactivity
  Participantion, History Theory, Industry
  Money, Art games, Pervasive games, Big games,
  Board games, MMORPGS, Casual games, Serious
  games, Rulesets, Toolsets, Simulations,
  Hypermedia, Current debates, Myths Criticism,
  Politics, News, Emotions, etc
• But most importantly FUN