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

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