[game_edu] Analog Game Design Activities?

[George D. Phillies]

> On Nov 16, 2006, at 09:40, Beth Aileen Dillon wrote:

>

>> What kinds of activities do you have students do to either come up

>> with game design ideas or prototype game designs when you don't have

>> technology available?

>>

>> - Beth


My course required each group of students to design a board game, either a 
Eurogame or a board war game.  The effort consumed half of the term, though 
here terms run seven weeks with students taking three courses a term. The 
best were good.  Even the weakest were at least positively derivative of 
board games that had been played in the laboratory sessions.  We also did 
design exercises of various sorts, e.g., sketch the rules if you turn the 
structure of this automobile racing game into a political election game. 
The exercises were taken in part from the two Game Design books we wrote 
for the course, seen at http://3mpub.com/phillies