Monday, June 16, 2008

Monday, June 16 summer session 2

Monday, June 16, 2008

Summer Session 1

Schedule Day 1


8:00 am Greet parents/kids, get forms (receipts, payment, consent), rating form, allergies, cell phone, check “in case of emergency” list

8:30 am Welcome (Barb/Rachel), Intro to Lab, Orientation, Overview of rules and

Expectations
8:45 am Ice Breaker - Interview each other

What are your likes and dislikes?

What do you hope to get out of the games lab? Why are you here?

What are your hobbies?

What’s your favorite food?

What’s your favorite subject?

Etc.

9:20 am Guided Game Play

Choose one game you have never played before

--Burnout

--Dormax 2 (DDR)

--Katamari Damacy

--Wii Ski

--Wii Boom Blox

--Mario Kart


10 am Snack/Discussion on game critique, followed by consultants critiquing their favorite game

Design Activity: Game critique

[Explain why they are doing this assignment; e.g., developers need to know what they think about games]

What is the name of the game you played this morning?
What is the purpose of the game? [objective, what is your goal when you play it?]
What would you do to improve this game?
Name 3 things you like about this game.
What age would you recommend this game to?

10:25 am Typologies assignment (assign for homework – each consultant gets 10 sheets of paper to take home and write down 10 games they have played at home or at a friend’s house – title of game and brief description on one side of the paper.)

10:30 am Video Closet

Introduce and model how to video closet, then let them respond to video closet question.

11.00 Guided game play
11:50am Clean up

12:00 pm Dismissal
No blog

Video Closet: What was your favorite game you played today and why?

Homework: Typology Activity – Write down 10 game titles and a brief description of each game on 10 sheets of paper. Bring back Tuesday.

Friday, June 13, 2008

Games Lab

Joshua 11 Grade 5
I learned that game developing is harder. My favorite part was playing games. My least was talking about them .

game lab

victor I'm 14 I'm in the 8th grade
What i learned about video games in the last two weeks was that It isn't as easy as it seems to design a video game. The coolest part of the games lab is that they let us play all there video games. The uncoolest part is that is only lasted two weeks.

games lab

jason,11,5
i learned games are supposed to be fun and not for competition.the best part is the games.no bad parts.

games lab

craig

12

7th
what i learn here was to cooperate on games and that if u blog and get all of the game info
out it fills cool to let other people look at your blogging
the least favorites was nothing.

Games Lab

Sonia
12
7th

i learned a lot in the games lab like i learned how to give a response about a game and I also learned a little bit on how people make games. My favorite part of the camp was probably playing guided game play because I love playing games that i have never played before then answering questions about them. My least favorite part of the camp was probably doing video closet every day because i don't like thew idea that i am on a camera.

Gamers Lab

Larry
12 Grade
7th
I learned different game concepts and other terms.I liked playing games and playing new games.I didn't like waiting cause it was boring,but it was fun.:P