Schedule

Unit 1: Analyzing Algorithms

September 10

• Read: Matsumoto, Hillis Chapter 1
• In class: Introduction to Procedural Rhetoric, play a few short games

September 17

[Micro-Response Paper Due]
• Read: Bogost, "Procedural Rhetoric"
• Play your group's assigned game
• In class: Game Analysis Workshop

September 24

[Micro-Response Paper Due]
• Read: Hillis Chapter 3
• Play your group's assigned game
• In class: Game Analysis Workshop

September 28
[LRO PART A Due at Noon]

October 1

[Procedural Rhetoric Paper Due]
• In class: Game Redesign Workshop

Unit 2: Writing with Algorithms

October 8

• Read: Blown to Bits, Chapter 1 and your group's assigned chapter
• In class: Discussion and Game Design Workshop

October 15

[Micro-Response Paper Due]
• Read: Hillis Chapter 4
• In class: Game Design Workshop, Progress Reports

October 21
[Midterm LRO Due at Noon]

October 22

[Game Version 1.0 Due]
• In class: Game Design Workshop, Progress Reports

October 29

[Game Version 2.0 Due]
[Game Explanation Presentation 1.0 Due]
[Micro-Response Paper Due]
• Read: Hillis, Chapter 5
• In class: Game Design Workshop, Progress Reports

November 5

[Game Version 3.0 Due]
[Game Explanation Presentations]
• Arcade day, videogame presentations.

Unit 3: Making With Algorithms

November 12

[Optional Micro-Response Paper Due]
• Read: "Bicycles" from Gerald Raunig's A Thousand Machines and "The Theory of Affordances" from James Gibson's The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (both available via Dropbox)
• In Class: Physical Computing Workshop, using PicoBoards. Guest speaker, Steven LeMieux
  NOTE: This workshop will run from 2:30 until 6:30, and dinner will be provided.

November 19

[Micro-Response Paper Due]
• Read: Hillis, Chapter 6
• In Class: Workshop

November 26

[Micro-Response Paper Due]
• Read: Hillis, Chapter 7
• In Class: Workshop

December 3

[Game Version 4.0 Due]
[Micro-Response Paper Due]
• Read: Hillis, Chapters 9
• In Class: Workshop

December 10

[Game Version 5.0 Due]
• In Class: Sharing Our Work, LRO Workshop

December 19

• Final LRO due at 12:30pm