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course outline(s) -- ca3: have fun and play!

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In this part a more detailed discussion will be provided of topics, learning goals, materials used, and the actual structure of the course, as well as a sketch of the assignments given. Also references to releveant literature is provided, including online resources. At the end, advice for students following the course will be given, as well as hints for the instructor(s).
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course topic(s)
As a creative application, which takes place at the end of the first year, the have fun and play! course has, strictly speaking, no actual course topics, but is rather defined as a collection of high level requirements for the student(s) to achieve:

topic(s)


A major principle here is self-organization and learning by challenge, that is finding suitable challenges for achieving the goals set.
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learning target(s)
In terms of skills, competences, etcetera, the learning goals of this course can be indicated as follwos:

CA3 target(s)


Perhaps not present in the list in a sufficiently explicit way is that the application must be resiatant to public exposure, and that the student must develop a sense of aesthetic responsibility as well as a suffient degree of artistic autonomy.
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lesson material(s)
The material that will actually be relevant during the course, will to a large extent depend on the actual topics chosen and the context of application, for example a regional festival, or a contribution to interactive theatre production(s).

have fun and play -- installation(s)


Very likely, the notion of urban space(s) will play a role, one way or another, where urban space must be understood as any space outside the private space of the home where interaction between people is one of the denominated functions of that space, be it a meeting room in a health-care institution, a market place for regional goods, or the dance floor in a late night disco. The challenge here, obviously, it to develop applications that conform with the primary function(s) of such spaces, using technology that available, affordable and sufficently robust to be deployed in such a context.
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course structure
Despite the self-organizing nature of the course, a sequence of seesions is needed to guarantuee continuity of work, and to avoid the risk that the creative aaplication diverges into one of the many pitfalls that haunt such projects.

session(s)


  1. introduction topic(s) & challenge(s)
  2. exploration of platform & production requirements
  3. planning -- concept & application development
  4. establishment of business plan
  5. contract negotiation & realization
  6. basic media and communication theory
  7. business and societal context of the creative application(s)
  8. delivery and presentation of final application(s)
Dependent on the size of the group, addtional mechanisms of monitoring progress may be needed, including logs, periodic accounts, and regular feedback or possibly even shout-out sessions.
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assignment(s)


With the actual format depending on the application context, we can indicate as a minimal set of deliverables and presentations the items collected in the list below:

assignment(s)


To guarantee that progress can be monitored and that results can be evaluated, the group(s) must maintain a website with all relevant information available in a suffienntly accessible way.
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reference(s)
Apart from some general information about for example agile method(s), we have included some references to our own work, not as a reference in the sense of a standard to be adhered, but rather to share experience(s), and indicate a possible format for writing a report or even paper to be published at some suitable venue.

reference(s)


  1. method(s) -- www.agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
  2. resource(s) -- game design patterns / team work
  3. Eliëns A. and Vyas D., Panorama -- explorations in the aesthetics of social awareness, In Proc. GAME-ON 07, Nov 20-22, University of Bologna, Marco Roccetti (ed.), p. 71-75, EUROSIS-ETI Publication, ISBN 9789077381373
  4. Eliëns A., van de Watering M., Huurdeman H., Bhikharie S.V., Lemmers H., Vellinga P. , Clima Futura @ VU -- communicating (unconvenient) science, In Proc. GAME-ON 07, Nov 20-22, University of Bologna, Marco Roccetti (ed.), pp. 125-129, EUROSIS-ETI Publication, ISBN 9789077381373
  5. A. Eliëns, topical media & game development -- media.eliens.net
A wealth of material and references can be found at my topical media & game development site, including tutorials and examples.

online resource(s)
As online resources, we suffice with a brief list of links to online manifestations or descriptions of art. The student is encouraged to bypass this list and google his/her way around, searching information and inspiration(s).

resource(s) / CA3


The given resources, and those found with search, should also be looked at from the perspective of design, that is as one of the possible ways to present information on the web. Use your knowledge and experience to decide on a proper format for presentating the information about your own project(s) on the web.
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