| Week | Date | Assignment | Writing due |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/16 | Introduction to the class | |
| 2 | 1/21 | No class | |
| 1/23 | Everyone’s an Author “Rhetorical Situations” and “Reading Rhetorically” | ||
| 3 | 1/28 | “The Landlord’s Game” 99% Invisible podcast
“What exactly is a game?” from Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World byJane McGonigal |
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| 1/30 | Play Depression Quest
“Introduction to Critical Play” from Critical play: Radical Game Design by Mary Flanagan |
Decide on Character name
Create WordPress site |
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| 2/1 | Side Quest 1: Avatar | ||
| 4 | 2/4 | Podcast brainstorming and planning | |
| 2/6 | Ian Bogost “Media Microecology” and “Empathy” from How to Do Things with Videogames | ||
| 2/8 | Side Quest 2: What’s in Your Bag? | ||
| 5 | 2/11 | Gone Home: A Story Exploration Game | Side Quest 3: Liveblogging Gone Home |
| 2/13 | “Introduction” and “Games” from Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson | ||
| 2/15 | Podcast episode 1 | ||
| 6 | 2/18 | Superbetter (Introduction & chapter 1) | |
| 2/20 | Rise of the Dungeon Master (chapters 1-4) | ||
| 2/22 | Podcast episodes 2 & 3 | ||
| 7 | 2/25 | Fiasco rulebook | |
| 2/27 | Board games in class | Fiasco | |
| 2/29 | Podcast episodes 4 & 5 | ||
| 8 | 3/4 | No class: Play Fiasco | Fiasco |
| 3/6 | Discuss Fiasco | Sidequest 4: Fiasco reflection | |
| 3/8 | Podcast episodes 6 & 7 | ||
| — | 3/11 | No class: Spring break | |
| — | 3/13 | No class: Spring break | |
| 9 | 3/18 | Finish Superbetter | |
| 3/20 | List of “bad guys” for Emory freshman life and begin to sketch out gameful strategies to respond to such bad guys | Data gathering for sq5 | |
| 3/22 | Podcast episodes 8 & 9 | ||
| 3/233/24 | Potential make-up days | ||
| 10 | 3/25 | ||
| 3/27 | Sidequest 5: What’s your number? | ||
| 3/29 | Podcast episodes 10 & 11 | ||
| 11 | 4/1 | ||
| 4/3 | |||
| 4/5 | Podcast episodes 12 & 13 | ||
| 4/64/7 | Potential make-up days | ||
| 12 | 4/8 | ||
| 4/10 | |||
| 4/12 | Podcast episodes 14 & 15 | ||
| 13 | 4/15 | ||
| 4/17 | |||
| 4/19 | Podcast episode 16 & 17 | ||
| 14 | 4/22 | ||
| 4/24 | |||
| 12/2 | |||
| 15 | 4/29 | Begin portfolio | |
| Revise projects, portfolio reflection letter, edit website | |||
| 16 | Conclusion | ||
| Final Exam Period | Final Portfolio and Reflection Letter | ||
This schedule is subject to change as the semester progresses. Changes will be indicated in the table above and I will also announce significant changes in a blog post.
