| Title: | Games and Interactive Media |
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| Course Section Number: | THE-208-01 |
| Department: | Theater |
| Description: | FACE TO FACE COURSE. Digital artists are building immersive interactive worlds that provoke us to reflect on enduring questions facing the human race. Games like This War of Mine, The Last of Us, Kentucky Route Zero, Celeste, and Undertale are challenging the very definition of "game" and pushing designers to explore the power of a new art form to illuminate our minds and spark our imaginations. To produce these rich narrative environments, programming and systems architecture must work hand-in-hand with sturdy dramaturgy, aesthetics, and thoughtful design. This requires creative, problem-solving collaboration among people with wildly disparate talents: coders and poets; AI designers and psychologists; engineers and actors. In this complex creative environment, our liberal arts credo has never been more relevant: it takes a broadly educated mind-or, better, many such minds working together-to grapple with complexity. In this course, we will leverage the power of games and interactive media to convey meaning through channels of communication unavailable to traditional media. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 12, 2020 |
| End Date: | November 24, 2020 |
| Meeting Information: |
08/13/2020-11/24/2020 Seminar Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Lilly Library, Room LGL
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| Faculty: | Abbott, Mike |
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