Game Studies Journal

December 05, 2022

Game Studies Journal

29 August - 11 December / week 1 - week 15

Amal Danish Azman / 0343592

Game Studies / Bachelor in Information Technology

:: Journal

INSTRUCTION

:: Journal link - https://danishbit.blogspot.com/2022/12/game-studies-journal.html

:: Exercise link - https://danishbit.blogspot.com/2022/11/game-studies.html

Journal

Week 1

We are briefed on the module and the assignments and we did our lecture which was normal.

We are given our exercise task 1 to present next week also:

Personal gaming history

Exercise 2 is also given:

Cultural influences in Games
identify games with cultural influences
what culture
how does it connect to players

Though task 2 we don't need to present next week so I'm just going to do that next time.

To-do:

Exercise 1 (to present next week)

Week 2

We did a lecture first then some students presented about their personal game history and compared it to mine...…. it is what it is. Thank god tho we don't really need to present, we can just record ourselves doing the presentation and that's done

For the assignment, we decided for each member to give two ideas which we will show at the end of the week. We will discuss and decide how to proceed in the next class. These are my ideas tho (gotta say, they kinda wack):

todo:

game ideas

Week 3

For the assignment, we discussed about our game with the lecturer :

Vid link - https://youtu.be/KQLN6E5SiUc?list=PL_11ypj3YYppMXb7wobnUz8bGYB9EU_rP

We decided to do a game related to ADHD.

We also made a miro to add all our ideas into one place so we all can see it clearly

miro link - https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVPUnos_o=/

To conclude the discussion, we decided to research more about ADHD and brainstorm on how to cooperate it into a game.

to do:

research about ADHD
game related to ADHD

Week 4

Assignment

We had a general idea for the game from many hours of brainstorming and looking at inspirations from Pinterest. We further discussed the features of the game, the winning condition, the losing condition, and basically the gritty details of the game. We also designed the board of the game which was hard because we wanted it to be related to ADHD somehow.

In the game, we also wanted a challenge and mystery cards so some members and myself were tasked with thinking of it while the design team will handle the details of the board game.'

to do:

challenges
mysteries

Week 5

The day before the class, Vernice and Mel met up to work on the board before the class for a playtest with Dr. Charles. and I joined them to help around with whatever I could.

Then came the next day where we have a class with Dr. Charles. We play test with Dr. Charles as the only player and received feedback on the game.

Vid link - https://youtu.be/VIWle7E9jW4

Overall feedback was good but we still need to improve on the small details

Week 6

Assignments:

For the design team will work further on the board game and upgrade it while I was tasked to make a website for the game as I was the only IT student in the group.

I just used Wix for the game website and we decided to put the challenges, rules, and about us here to make it easier for the player to play the game without the clutter of cards

website link - https://280danish.wixsite.com/simplegame

Later in the week, Alicia, Vernice (the art team) and I met up in discord to help me with the design part of the website and make it prettier.

Week 7

This is probably the last mandatory class we have to attend for the lecture as Dr Charles says it going to be mandatory to go to class. Sir says that we have the option to not attend future classes and focus on the assignment.

Assignment:

After weeks of discussing the game, there was confusion about some of its features of the game, therefore, we used this week to reorganise our game features and straighten the roles of each member.

Week 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

Nothing happened just work on our parts, added some more challenges, added more mystery cards and more.

I worked on the exercises after finishing my part of the work.

Art Team designed the cards and board to be printed.

Logistics team find details to print the game.

Started to work on our group blog

Week 14

Meet with Dr. Charles in discord to update him about our progress and get some feedback.

Post meeting comments:-

Feedbacks were positive but I felt that our pace is slow

Week 15

I worked on group website and further enhanced the looks while mel added the challenges into the site.

Later in the week, we play-tested with Dr Charles and some guests.

Game Playing Video (recorded by and edited by Lova): https://youtu.be/UT-jnwgV_B8

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