Experimental Game Mechanics

Thomas Wagensommerer
Institut für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Experimental Game Cultures
2022W, wissenschaftliches Seminar (SEW), 4.0 ECTS, 2.0 SemStd., LV-Nr. S30456

Beschreibung

Conventional game mechanics can be described as “rule-based methods for agency in the gameworld, designed for overcoming challenges in non-trivial ways.” (Sicart, M. A. (2016a). Mechanics. In H. Lowood & R. Guins (Eds.), Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon. (pp. 297–304). MIT Press)

This course aims to reflects on strategies to approach, research, evaluate, create and define experimental game mechanics to overcome the present state of game mechanics in a playful way.

Throughout the course, we use and misuse modes of digital production to perforate the surface of representation to expose its new flesh. (cf. Videodrome - David Cronenberg 1983)

This course explicitly understands game (or rather: play) as a matter of artistic creation.

 

Prüfungsmodalitäten

Attendance

Participation

Exercises / Conception of prototypes

Individual research and presentation

Anmerkungen

Recommended:

Pre-Installation of the latest version of Unity3D

Laptop with hardware capable of running Unity3D

Camera + Microphone (e.g. Smartphone)

Headphones

Schlagwörter

game art, game mechanics, game engine, unity, artificial intelligence, sound, surrealism, shader, programming, Medienkunst

Termine

19. Oktober 2022, 10:00–11:00 PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien (Vorbesprechung)
09. November 2022, 10:00–12:00 PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien
16. November 2022, 10:00–12:00 PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien
23. November 2022, 10:00–12:00 PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien
07. Dezember 2022, 13:00–15:00 PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151) 1010 Wien
14. Dezember 2022, 10:00–12:00 PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien
11. Jänner 2023, 10:00–12:00 PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien
18. Jänner 2023, 10:00–12:00 PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien
25. Jänner 2023, 10:00–12:00 PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien

LV-Anmeldung

Per Online Anmeldung

Experimental Game Cultures (Master): Spielentwicklung und Reflexion: Spielentwicklung und Reflexion I-III 536/001.01

Mitbelegung: nicht möglich

Besuch einzelner Lehrveranstaltungen: nicht möglich