Experimental Game Mechanics
Thomas Wagensommerer
Arts and Society, Experimental Game Cultures
2022W, scientific seminar (SEW), 4.0 ECTS, 2.0 semester hours, course number S30456
Description
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.
Examination Modalities
Attendance
Participation
Exercises / Conception of prototypes
Individual research and presentation
Comments
Recommended:
Pre-Installation of the latest version of Unity3D
Laptop with hardware capable of running Unity3D
Camera + Microphone (e.g. Smartphone)
Headphones
Key Words
game art, game mechanics, game engine, unity, artificial intelligence, sound, surrealism, shader, programming, media art
Dates
19 October 2022, 10:00–11:00 PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien (preliminary discussion)
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 December 2022, 13:00–15:00 PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151) 1010 Wien
14 December 2022, 10:00–12:00 PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien
11 January 2023, 10:00–12:00 PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien
18 January 2023, 10:00–12:00 PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien
25 January 2023, 10:00–12:00 PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien
Course Enrolment
Via online registration
Curriculum Allocation
Experimental Game Cultures (Master): Game Development and Reflection: Game Development and Reflection I-III 536/001.01
Co-registration: not possible
Attending individual courses: not possible