GAME DESIGN (ENGLISH, THESIS) | |||||
Master | TR-NQF-HE: Level 7 | QF-EHEA: Second Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 7 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
GAD5204 | Playful Experience Design | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi GÜVEN ÇATAK |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | This course will be focusing on integrating game elements into everyday life and experience design applications by presenting playful experiences to the users, while suggesting a hybrid interactive analysis through including digital and analogue tools inspecting player motivations as well as the place of games in contemporary art scene. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; The students who have succeeded in this course 1) Understand the fundementals of game and play 2) Define, measure and evaluate the different metrics and key performance indicators for applications that provide playful experience across a range of dimensions 3) Design, develop, and evaluate a playful interaction concept project for a real-world case 4) Percieve fundemental methods and theory related to player experience 5) Understand game design and game studies, as well as user experience perspectives for interaction design, and human computer interaction 6) Apply behaviour analysis via playful interaction 7) Form relation between game elements and personal motivations for gamification projects |
In order to understand how game works and how the concept of play is and can be integrated to our lives, students must understand the fundementals of game experience approaches, business reflections and applications of game design. The course will give a hands-on approach to play theory, and an academic understanding of the practice of playful experience design. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Too much fun: Toys as social problems and the interpretation of culture. Best, Joel. 1998 The Practice of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau (1974) Csikszentmihalyi, M., Beyond Boredom and Anxiety. The Experience of Play in Work and Games,1975 (Jossey-Bass Publishers). |
References: | Why We Play Games: Four Keys to More Emotion Without Story. Lazzaro, N. 2004 |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Total | % | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 0 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % | |
Total | % |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | To gain understanding about game making process | 3 |
2) | To gain knowledge about cultural and social effects of games | 5 |
3) | To understand sector and academy altogether | 4 |
4) | To understand games in global sense in terms of marketing | 4 |
5) | To find solutions and practical means in game making processes | 3 |
6) | By gaining critical point of view, analyisng games (critical thinking) | 3 |
7) | To understand the processes of project management and team management | 3 |
8) | To study game design in academical terms and research of games in socio-economical terms | 2 |
9) | Gaining talent about playful experience design, everyday aspects of games and gamification | 5 |
10) | From interdisciplinary point of view analysing and questioning of making processes of games | 5 |