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ANIMA-2700-7: Lower Division Workshop: Game Design

Fall 2021

Subject: Animation
Type: Workshop
Delivery Mode: Hybrid
Level: Undergraduate

Campus: Oakland
Course Dates: September 01, 2021 — December 14, 2021
Meetings:
Tue/Fri 2:00-04:00PM, Oakland - Founders - 304: Hybrid Lab
Tue/Fri 2:00-04:00PM, Online - FA-14
Instructor: Zachary Walter

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 1/15

Description:

Hybrid course sections will be delivered both online and in-person. Required online synchronous meeting times are listed as the meeting pattern for this course section. Additional course components will be delivered asynchronously or in-person as outlined in the syllabus.Animation Workshops are a series of courses that teach essential skills about a specific topic within animation. Under the guidance of the instructor, students will engage in rigorous study about a specific subject matter. The goal of Animation Workshops is to produce work that illustrates the skills learned. These courses are open to all CCA students who have completed CORE D1 and 4D.Game Design is a method and practice-driven studio focusing on the theories, principles, and technologies used in designing games for digital, analog, mixed, and experimental game mediums and formats. This course focuses on developing student competency and understanding of advanced theories of play, formal game elements, game mechanics, game structures, interactivity, player and system dynamics, and narrative design. Over the semester students undertake a series of individual and collaborative game analysis, design, and development projects within tabletop, screen, and expanded reality game assignments.

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