Game Design Workshop: Forget Virtual Reality, Try Actual Reality
805 Danforth Ave, Toronto, ON M4J 1L2, Canada
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Game Design Workshop: Forget Virtual Reality, Try Actual Reality
The Hand Eye Society presents: Experimental Game Design Workshops 2018! Video game designers tend to fixate largely on creating experiences to be shown on a digital display. This workshop is aimed to get designers also thinking about the social and physical aspects of the games they create!
General Ticket: $40 + HST
HES Members: $25 + HST (discount code e-mailed on registration)
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
It's of my opinion that a good skill for game designers to possess is the ability to deconstruct the world around them, so the first lesson will be a primer on basic media literacy. Afterwards, we'll use this knowledge to deconstruct the models of play that digital and physical games employ. Examples will be shown, and played, of games that already experiment in this space. Then participants will then be challenged to make physical games that are on some level impossible to replicate in a digital manner.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EQUIPMENT
Basic game design understanding and strong game literacy are required. The workshop is framed around things not possible in a digital game scenario, so experience in digital game creation is preferred.
This is not really meant for people with extensive board game design background.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
1/4 of the Gloam Collective, Damien Sommer is currently working on Bravery Network. In a previous life he made the IGF-nominated storytelling game The Yawhg, as well as the randomly generated Chess-like, Chesh.
