ART 007 - The Art of the Game

Resources

Many readings will be linked from the schedule, others are from these texts :

• Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
• Huizinga, Johan. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-element in Culture. The Beacon Press, Boston, MA. 1938. by
• Lowood, Henry and Michael Nitsche. The Machinima Reader. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 2011. Print.
• Williams, Richard. The Animator’s Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principals and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators. London: Faber and Faber, 2001.

We will be using Twine for storyboarding and testing.

Here is a good general reference for cascading style sheets. And another

• research-based usability guidlines
• Krug's Common Sense

• Chris Crawford's Erazmatron
• Bioware's Mass Effect 39
• Interactive Digital Storytelling Conference Proceedings
• storygami
• ifog
• storyteller game
• Henry Jenkin's latest initiative

• basic color theory
• typeright.org
• choosing & using type