Yuchen_Week_1_Thesis_Journal
Here is my brainswarm screenshot, and I am questioning myself what should I do. The question of “what” really reveals what topic and theme I wanna do or research about. Here are three big categories: Bias, in-game, and out-of-game. The bias talks about the social bias towards programming, games, and play. These are all about kid education. I have read several books about kid education: Free to Play and Inventive Minds.
There are 3 main ideas of my thesis. Kds’ education about AI and Programming, Bad game UI, and China-lized games.
After group discussion, I decided to combine the last two ideas as a new bigger idea. The irony of bad games. I will research some bad elements in games and out game to produce a new game called bad game simulator, or commercial game simulator. More details will be shown in the next journal.
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Hi Yuchen,
Really excited to see how these new ideas are forming. I would recommend reaching out to https://www.deathbyaudioarcade.com/ Death by Audio Arcade folks, a really lovely collective of indie game makers (with lots of ITP ties) who love all things game design. There is also an incredible Game Design studio at NYU and I would start reaching out to the some of the folks that teach there!
Congratulation on diving the topic dipper!! There’s a magazine telling the progress of the development of the Game Industry, the devices and the mechanism & ideas of a different era.
https://www.amazon.cn/dp/B00N72I7CG/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?_encoding=UTF8&WDG=book_display_on_website&dpRequestId=YV4GKGNDGT7GVTMC4ZYR&language=en_CN&pc_redir=T1&ref_=redir_mdp_mobile_siteViewPreference
Also, the book Actionable gamification by Yu-kai Chou shows the framework/principle of the game experience design. I don’t think you should follow the same principle of this book, but I encourage you to start to frame your principle of the game experience in the later phase if you think it’s helpful.
https://www.amazon.com/Actionable-Gamification-Beyond-Points-Leaderboards-ebook/dp/B00WAOGY4U