Bartle Test

http://www.4you2learn.com/bartle/

Wednesday Linkage:

Game Studio Name Generator

An Interesting Game about Writing (And Meaninglessness) 
made with Phaser

Upsilon Circuit, an upcoming game that you can play once. When you die, you can never play again!

Wednesday Linkage

-I really want you all to play Passage by Jason Rohrer at some point. Rohrer has received critical acclaim for his artistic engagement and game design; he helps us rethink what games are and can be.

-Play the Superhot 2D game written in html, css, and javascript. Then play with the code.

-Play Two Rooms... a super simple Twine game that might help get you thinking.


Look at the Video Game Name Generator

And the Gender Remixer

A Few Twine Things

Games to Try

A Bucket Filled With Sand

Cat Petting Simulator

Even Cowgirls Bleed

The Day After Chemo

RPG-ish (and commentary)

Not Game


Commentary on Twine

Power to the People: The Text Adventures of Twine

The Best Twine Games Empower the Underdog

Anna Anthropy and the Twine Revolution

The Mechanics of Twine


Lastly!

You can just bring your games to class on your computers...

Or host them at philome.la or itch.io

World of Warcraft

We will be having our class discussion about the graphic novel In Real Life online in World of Warcraft.

You can download the free starter version here. It's a big game and will take up a bit of space on your computer, so if you want to wait until the week before, that's fine.

Once you have it all installed, create a character on the Argent Dawn Server (so that we can all be in the same place)!!!

Explore a bit.

We will have our class in the Blood Elves' starting area, Eversong Woods, so if you're a bit of a n00b (and that is totally okay), then just create a blood elf and show up to class on March 23. You do have to create a character that is friendly on the Horde side: no humans allowed...

3 Links

*Game Design Contest about money for $10,000! Deadline March 10.

*Video Games as Art for The New York Times
Jason Rohrer is a genius...

*Video of Katie Salen on Games and Education



+Plus: Hot Games!!! Firewatch and The Witness

3 Links

Amazon Releases Its Own Game Maker For Free

Ubisoft Changes Their Terms of Agreement 
An interesting look at the intense amount of writing that is legally attached to games and their corporations.

Flappy Bird MMO