Experimental Game Mechanics

Thomas Wagensommerer
Institut für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Experimental Game Cultures
2023S, 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.

Although this course is the successor to "Experimental Game Mechanics 2022W" and will continue strand laid out there, it's not a mandatory requriement and everyone is welcome to jump in along the way.

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, Konzeptkunst, Computeranimation, Computergrafik, Computerprogramm, digitale Bildbearbeitung, Elektronische Musik, Medienkunst, Elekronische Medien, Musik

Termine

08. März 2023, 10:00–11:00, „PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien“ (Vorbesprechung)
15. März 2023, 10:00–12:00, „PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien“
22. März 2023, 10:00–12:00, „PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien“
29. März 2023, 10:00–12:00, „PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien“
19. April 2023, 10:00–12:00, „PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien“
26. April 2023, 10:00–12:00, „PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien“
03. Mai 2023, 10:00–12:00, „PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien“
10. Mai 2023, 10:00–12:00, „PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien“
17. Mai 2023, 10:00–12:00, „PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien“
24. Mai 2023, 10:00–12:00, „PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien“
31. Mai 2023, 10:00–12:00, „PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien“
07. Juni 2023, 10:00–12:00, „PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien“
14. Juni 2023, 10:00–12:00, „PSK Rosenbursenstrasse 3 1st floor (studio 151/152/156) 1010 Wien“

LV-Anmeldung

Ab 17. Februar 2023, 21:53
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