WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.090 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.090 --> 00:00:02.490 align:middle line:84% The following content is provided under a Creative 00:00:02.490 --> 00:00:04.030 align:middle line:90% Commons license. 00:00:04.030 --> 00:00:06.330 align:middle line:84% Your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare 00:00:06.330 --> 00:00:10.690 align:middle line:84% continue to offer high quality educational resources for free. 00:00:10.690 --> 00:00:13.320 align:middle line:84% To make a donation or view additional materials 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:17.250 align:middle line:84% from hundreds of MIT courses, visit MIT OpenCourseWare 00:00:17.250 --> 00:00:18.430 align:middle line:90% at ocw.mit.edu. 00:00:18.430 --> 00:00:21.224 align:middle line:90% 00:00:21.224 --> 00:00:22.890 align:middle line:84% PROFESSOR: All right, I'm going to start 00:00:22.890 --> 00:00:25.302 align:middle line:90% handing out assignment three. 00:00:25.302 --> 00:00:28.035 align:middle line:84% And on the back of assignment three 00:00:28.035 --> 00:00:30.285 align:middle line:84% are the changes that we've made to the syllabus, which 00:00:30.285 --> 00:00:32.270 align:middle line:84% is mostly in the order of reading, 00:00:32.270 --> 00:00:34.330 align:middle line:84% but also we've lifted some of the games that-- 00:00:34.330 --> 00:00:39.420 align:middle line:84% we've [INAUDIBLE] some of the games that that we're going to 00:00:39.420 --> 00:00:40.210 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE]. 00:00:40.210 --> 00:00:42.996 align:middle line:84% Because basically we change the assignment three 00:00:42.996 --> 00:00:45.090 align:middle line:90% in the middle of the semester. 00:00:45.090 --> 00:00:46.890 align:middle line:84% Who actually read ahead to figure out 00:00:46.890 --> 00:00:48.314 align:middle line:90% what assignments are you on? 00:00:48.314 --> 00:00:49.230 align:middle line:90% AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]. 00:00:49.230 --> 00:00:52.104 align:middle line:84% PROFESSOR: How long ago did you read ahead? 00:00:52.104 --> 00:00:53.490 align:middle line:90% AUDIENCE: Like two weeks ago. 00:00:53.490 --> 00:00:54.030 align:middle line:90% PROFESSOR: Two weeks ago. 00:00:54.030 --> 00:00:54.530 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:00:54.530 --> 00:00:57.640 align:middle line:84% So whatever was online is different from what it is now. 00:00:57.640 --> 00:00:59.116 align:middle line:90% AUDIENCE: OK. 00:00:59.116 --> 00:01:03.426 align:middle line:84% PROFESSOR: But if you just read like the one line description-- 00:01:03.426 --> 00:01:04.050 align:middle line:90% AUDIENCE: Yeah. 00:01:04.050 --> 00:01:05.370 align:middle line:90% PROFESSOR: It's that. 00:01:05.370 --> 00:01:08.682 align:middle line:84% But all of the text that we wrote up completely changed. 00:01:08.682 --> 00:01:09.640 align:middle line:90% So this is [INAUDIBLE]. 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:10.360 align:middle line:90% AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]. 00:01:10.360 --> 00:01:11.026 align:middle line:90% PROFESSOR: What? 00:01:11.026 --> 00:01:13.190 align:middle line:84% AUDIENCE: Are there any [INAUDIBLE]? 00:01:13.190 --> 00:01:15.360 align:middle line:84% PROFESSOR: It's mostly rearranged. 00:01:15.360 --> 00:01:17.750 align:middle line:84% Mostly just scheduling, rather than the actual readings. 00:01:17.750 --> 00:01:19.770 align:middle line:84% I don't think we introduced any new reading, 00:01:19.770 --> 00:01:24.876 align:middle line:84% except for maybe [? MO ?] 7, which is [INAUDIBLE]. 00:01:24.876 --> 00:01:27.683 align:middle line:84% That's been on our website for a while now though. 00:01:27.683 --> 00:01:29.016 align:middle line:90% AUDIENCE: I did all the reading. 00:01:29.016 --> 00:01:30.104 align:middle line:90% PROFESSOR: Yep. 00:01:30.104 --> 00:01:31.770 align:middle line:84% So I don't know if you've seen that one. 00:01:31.770 --> 00:01:32.520 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] 00:01:32.520 --> 00:01:34.980 align:middle line:90% Simulation 101. 00:01:34.980 --> 00:01:37.280 align:middle line:90% It's like a series of webpages. 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:38.280 align:middle line:90% It's all online on the-- 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:38.967 align:middle line:90% AUDIENCE: Yeah. 00:01:38.967 --> 00:01:39.550 align:middle line:90% PROFESSOR: OK. 00:01:39.550 --> 00:01:40.050 align:middle line:90% All right. 00:01:40.050 --> 00:01:43.380 align:middle line:90% So you better read it. 00:01:43.380 --> 00:01:45.590 align:middle line:84% So I'm just reading this because people are still 00:01:45.590 --> 00:01:46.381 align:middle line:90% cuttting things up. 00:01:46.381 --> 00:01:49.410 align:middle line:90% So I figure I might just talk. 00:01:49.410 --> 00:01:53.876 align:middle line:84% So assignment three is going to be about applying everything 00:01:53.876 --> 00:01:55.000 align:middle line:90% that you've learned so far. 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:56.375 align:middle line:84% Remember, assignment one was kind 00:01:56.375 --> 00:01:59.560 align:middle line:84% of just getting used to this, the discipline iterating. 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:01.710 align:middle line:90% Of prototyping, of iterating. 00:02:01.710 --> 00:02:08.100 align:middle line:84% I feel that you've all shown like a lot of good experience 00:02:08.100 --> 00:02:10.350 align:middle line:90% and skill in doing this. 00:02:10.350 --> 00:02:12.990 align:middle line:84% One thing while I saw those presentations it reminded me 00:02:12.990 --> 00:02:14.640 align:middle line:84% that we actually have notes about all 00:02:14.640 --> 00:02:17.340 align:middle line:84% of your individual write ups, that I should copy and paste 00:02:17.340 --> 00:02:22.234 align:middle line:84% into the grading section of the [? fellow ?] webpage. 00:02:22.234 --> 00:02:23.400 align:middle line:90% AUDIENCE: I'll do that next. 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:23.883 align:middle line:90% PROFESSOR: Oh great. 00:02:23.883 --> 00:02:24.236 align:middle line:90% [INTERPOSING VOICES] 00:02:24.236 --> 00:02:25.569 align:middle line:90% PROFESSOR: That'll be some help. 00:02:25.569 --> 00:02:28.597 align:middle line:90% Yeah, I just forgot to do that. 00:02:28.597 --> 00:02:30.180 align:middle line:84% So you'll also be getting a little bit 00:02:30.180 --> 00:02:34.290 align:middle line:84% more detailed feedback on your individual writeups. 00:02:34.290 --> 00:02:36.240 align:middle line:84% Like, in terms of the game, designing things 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:39.780 align:middle line:90% are coming along pretty well. 00:02:39.780 --> 00:02:43.990 align:middle line:84% And if you want more feedback on the individual elements 00:02:43.990 --> 00:02:46.110 align:middle line:84% of each game that you worked on in the past 00:02:46.110 --> 00:02:47.619 align:middle line:84% we could totally get that to you. 00:02:47.619 --> 00:02:49.410 align:middle line:84% I'm just guessing a lot of you are probably 00:02:49.410 --> 00:02:51.368 align:middle line:84% more eager to just move on to the next project. 00:02:51.368 --> 00:02:53.940 align:middle line:90% 00:02:53.940 --> 00:02:55.610 align:middle line:90% So I can talk about that. 00:02:55.610 --> 00:02:59.680 align:middle line:90% 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:01.560 align:middle line:84% Remember, assignment one was about the skill 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:03.530 align:middle line:90% of prototyping and iterrating. 00:03:03.530 --> 00:03:05.530 align:middle line:84% Assignment two was about trying to come up with, 00:03:05.530 --> 00:03:09.846 align:middle line:84% on some part holistic aesthetic experience. 00:03:09.846 --> 00:03:11.970 align:middle line:84% And assignment three we're asking you to apply that 00:03:11.970 --> 00:03:18.090 align:middle line:84% to the end of trying to depict the perspective of somebody who 00:03:18.090 --> 00:03:22.260 align:middle line:84% lived all this in the real world. 00:03:22.260 --> 00:03:27.170 align:middle line:84% That person could be a very specific person, 00:03:27.170 --> 00:03:29.685 align:middle line:84% like I'm going to bring up some examples here. 00:03:29.685 --> 00:03:32.850 align:middle line:84% Campaign Manager 2008 specifically 00:03:32.850 --> 00:03:36.840 align:middle line:84% states that you are the campaign managers of either the McCain 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:41.120 align:middle line:84% or the Obama campaigns, that you are-- that's one person. 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:44.595 align:middle line:84% Now, the powers of what you have in the game 00:03:44.595 --> 00:03:47.710 align:middle line:84% is really a whole network of campaigners, 00:03:47.710 --> 00:03:51.710 align:middle line:84% but you're the person who is calling the shots. 00:03:51.710 --> 00:03:56.424 align:middle line:84% You are trying to win the electoral college though this. 00:03:56.424 --> 00:03:58.590 align:middle line:84% We probably don't have time to play this, but anyone 00:03:58.590 --> 00:04:00.381 align:middle line:84% who wants to take a look at what's in here, 00:04:00.381 --> 00:04:04.230 align:middle line:84% all the bits, the way how each state is represented, 00:04:04.230 --> 00:04:06.950 align:middle line:84% how the United States is represented, 00:04:06.950 --> 00:04:08.700 align:middle line:84% the fact that you're basically just trying 00:04:08.700 --> 00:04:13.290 align:middle line:84% to win points among demographics by raising hot button issues. 00:04:13.290 --> 00:04:15.990 align:middle line:84% That's all this game is about, [? and it's ?] putting you 00:04:15.990 --> 00:04:18.899 align:middle line:84% in the shoes of a very specific person who actually 00:04:18.899 --> 00:04:20.009 align:middle line:90% exists in the real life. 00:04:20.009 --> 00:04:22.950 align:middle line:90% 00:04:22.950 --> 00:04:26.980 align:middle line:84% An alternative will be something like Tulipmania 1637, 00:04:26.980 --> 00:04:28.200 align:middle line:90% which is a game about-- 00:04:28.200 --> 00:04:32.074 align:middle line:84% anyone want to hear about the Great Tulip Crash of 1637 00:04:32.074 --> 00:04:32.865 align:middle line:90% in the Netherlands? 00:04:32.865 --> 00:04:33.698 align:middle line:90% AUDIENCE: [LAUGHING] 00:04:33.698 --> 00:04:34.830 align:middle line:90% AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]? 00:04:34.830 --> 00:04:37.430 align:middle line:84% PROFESSOR: One of the first bubble markets-- 00:04:37.430 --> 00:04:40.800 align:middle line:90% who [INAUDIBLE] bubble markets? 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:44.490 align:middle line:84% You've got to have heard about it in the past four years-- 00:04:44.490 --> 00:04:46.050 align:middle line:90% eight years. 00:04:46.050 --> 00:04:48.070 align:middle line:90% 2008 was a real long time ago. 00:04:48.070 --> 00:04:48.630 align:middle line:90% Oh, geeze. 00:04:48.630 --> 00:04:49.317 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:04:49.317 --> 00:04:50.150 align:middle line:90% AUDIENCE: [LAUGHING] 00:04:50.150 --> 00:04:51.160 align:middle line:90% AUDIENCE: It's OK. 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:53.035 align:middle line:84% Next one's coming up next year, so it's cool. 00:04:53.035 --> 00:04:55.290 align:middle line:84% PROFESSOR: Oh, yeah, I read those articles, too. 00:04:55.290 --> 00:04:59.670 align:middle line:84% So this is about prices of tulips, flowers, 00:04:59.670 --> 00:05:04.110 align:middle line:84% being driven up by speculation to horrendous amounts 00:05:04.110 --> 00:05:08.250 align:middle line:84% and trying to be smart and exiting at the right time 00:05:08.250 --> 00:05:12.660 align:middle line:84% and often not being quite pulling it off 00:05:12.660 --> 00:05:15.660 align:middle line:84% at the right time and losing your shirt in the process. 00:05:15.660 --> 00:05:20.400 align:middle line:84% And this game puts you in the shoes of a [INAUDIBLE] 00:05:20.400 --> 00:05:22.500 align:middle line:84% speculator, someone who is trying 00:05:22.500 --> 00:05:26.100 align:middle line:84% to play this market at that time, when the market is 00:05:26.100 --> 00:05:30.720 align:middle line:84% behaving in this very, very volatile, incredible increases 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:33.909 align:middle line:90% and yet even faster crashes. 00:05:33.909 --> 00:05:35.700 align:middle line:84% [? It's ?] actually designed by a professor 00:05:35.700 --> 00:05:39.480 align:middle line:84% in Syracuse University, Scott Nicholson, who 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:44.532 align:middle line:84% runs [INAUDIBLE] with Scott, and it's pretty awesome. 00:05:44.532 --> 00:05:45.990 align:middle line:84% If you like playing it, you can see 00:05:45.990 --> 00:05:49.590 align:middle line:84% the little token, little flower heads, 00:05:49.590 --> 00:05:52.110 align:middle line:84% and you get to do things like try 00:05:52.110 --> 00:05:55.950 align:middle line:84% to convince buyers to buy at a higher price than what you 00:05:55.950 --> 00:05:57.182 align:middle line:90% had originally bought it at. 00:05:57.182 --> 00:05:57.890 align:middle line:90% Things like that. 00:05:57.890 --> 00:06:00.397 align:middle line:90% 00:06:00.397 --> 00:06:02.105 align:middle line:84% [? Care to talk ?] a little bit about E3? 00:06:02.105 --> 00:06:04.760 align:middle line:90% GUEST SPEAKER: Yeah. 00:06:04.760 --> 00:06:06.570 align:middle line:90% So I chose three games. 00:06:06.570 --> 00:06:09.780 align:middle line:84% So what we're asking you to do is choose a real world 00:06:09.780 --> 00:06:14.314 align:middle line:84% historical, political, cultural, economic situation, 00:06:14.314 --> 00:06:16.480 align:middle line:84% so you might be choosing some problematic situations 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:20.980 align:middle line:84% like the conquest of Africa by Europeans. 00:06:20.980 --> 00:06:23.800 align:middle line:84% So it's a game about African exploration 00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:26.200 align:middle line:90% during the 19th Century. 00:06:26.200 --> 00:06:27.970 align:middle line:90% It's made in the 70s. 00:06:27.970 --> 00:06:31.270 align:middle line:84% They tried to be less problematic. 00:06:31.270 --> 00:06:32.830 align:middle line:84% They were not entirely successful 00:06:32.830 --> 00:06:35.570 align:middle line:84% because the point of view of this game 00:06:35.570 --> 00:06:41.920 align:middle line:84% is entirely of the European explorer entering 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:46.150 align:middle line:84% this forbidden Africa and finding things 00:06:46.150 --> 00:06:48.670 align:middle line:84% there, and basically finding Zulu tribes, which were not all 00:06:48.670 --> 00:06:51.850 align:middle line:84% throughout Africa, of course, and fighting 00:06:51.850 --> 00:06:54.760 align:middle line:84% other explorers who had died there previously, 00:06:54.760 --> 00:06:56.480 align:middle line:84% biblical things like King Solomon's mine, 00:06:56.480 --> 00:06:58.000 align:middle line:90% things like that. 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:00.970 align:middle line:84% But mechanically, it is an interesting way 00:07:00.970 --> 00:07:04.420 align:middle line:84% to talk about exploration, not so much about 00:07:04.420 --> 00:07:10.150 align:middle line:84% the bigger issues around what imperialism was, 00:07:10.150 --> 00:07:11.835 align:middle line:90% what that kind of conquest was. 00:07:11.835 --> 00:07:14.677 align:middle line:90% 00:07:14.677 --> 00:07:16.760 align:middle line:84% If you're thinking about doing a live action game, 00:07:16.760 --> 00:07:18.820 align:middle line:84% we've got a couple of different versions 00:07:18.820 --> 00:07:20.130 align:middle line:90% of how to do live action games. 00:07:20.130 --> 00:07:21.780 align:middle line:84% It can be a live action playing game. 00:07:21.780 --> 00:07:24.440 align:middle line:84% It can be a party game, a conversation game. 00:07:24.440 --> 00:07:27.190 align:middle line:84% This is a book called Heads of State: Nine Short Games 00:07:27.190 --> 00:07:28.800 align:middle line:90% About Tyrants. 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:32.300 align:middle line:84% We've got-- I haven't played many of these yet, 00:07:32.300 --> 00:07:34.820 align:middle line:84% but we've got, basically, the first game here 00:07:34.820 --> 00:07:36.189 align:middle line:90% it is called Coup D'etat. 00:07:36.189 --> 00:07:38.350 align:middle line:90% 00:07:38.350 --> 00:07:43.030 align:middle line:84% GUEST SPEAKER: Basically, why are dictators what they are? 00:07:43.030 --> 00:07:45.090 align:middle line:90% How did they become a dictator? 00:07:45.090 --> 00:07:47.610 align:middle line:84% In this case, Gaddafi's idolization 00:07:47.610 --> 00:07:50.140 align:middle line:84% of Egyptian president Gamal Nasser, 00:07:50.140 --> 00:07:53.175 align:middle line:84% reading Nasser's philosophy of the revolution, 00:07:53.175 --> 00:07:55.300 align:middle line:84% thinking about plots against the Egyptian monarchy, 00:07:55.300 --> 00:07:58.750 align:middle line:84% but also entering into the Military Academy in Benghazi 00:07:58.750 --> 00:08:01.090 align:middle line:84% in 1963, and then having other officers 00:08:01.090 --> 00:08:04.510 align:middle line:84% in training with him organizing the group that's 00:08:04.510 --> 00:08:07.720 align:middle line:84% going to overthrow the pro-western Libyan monarchy. 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:09.550 align:middle line:84% Basically your dictators in school, 00:08:09.550 --> 00:08:13.690 align:middle line:84% learning how to be future leaders in one of these games. 00:08:13.690 --> 00:08:15.100 align:middle line:84% So what this book is trying to do 00:08:15.100 --> 00:08:18.750 align:middle line:84% is try to give you multiple different viewpoints of tyranny 00:08:18.750 --> 00:08:22.927 align:middle line:84% and of those kind of problematic things. 00:08:22.927 --> 00:08:24.010 align:middle line:90% There's communism in here. 00:08:24.010 --> 00:08:25.150 align:middle line:90% There's maoism in here. 00:08:25.150 --> 00:08:28.580 align:middle line:90% 00:08:28.580 --> 00:08:31.630 align:middle line:84% A game about the disappearances of people, 00:08:31.630 --> 00:08:34.870 align:middle line:84% so if you're thinking about making a game about Argentina 00:08:34.870 --> 00:08:38.260 align:middle line:84% in the '70s, good luck, but they tried it, 00:08:38.260 --> 00:08:39.549 align:middle line:90% so you can see what they did. 00:08:39.549 --> 00:08:41.530 align:middle line:84% And then another version is Dog Eat Dog. 00:08:41.530 --> 00:08:45.160 align:middle line:84% It's a game about imperialism, in particular the assimilation 00:08:45.160 --> 00:08:46.324 align:middle line:90% of the Pacific Islands. 00:08:46.324 --> 00:08:47.740 align:middle line:84% The great thing about this game is 00:08:47.740 --> 00:08:51.972 align:middle line:84% you've got people who are acting as the new colonizers, 00:08:51.972 --> 00:08:53.680 align:middle line:84% but you've also got people who are acting 00:08:53.680 --> 00:08:56.920 align:middle line:84% as the native populace, and the different interactions that 00:08:56.920 --> 00:08:58.325 align:middle line:90% happen there. 00:08:58.325 --> 00:08:59.950 align:middle line:84% Basically, if you decide you want to do 00:08:59.950 --> 00:09:02.710 align:middle line:90% something that's coming to-- 00:09:02.710 --> 00:09:04.230 align:middle line:84% trying to do something more serious, 00:09:04.230 --> 00:09:09.430 align:middle line:84% if you try to do something with more of a problematic tone, 00:09:09.430 --> 00:09:10.840 align:middle line:84% you might want to consider having 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:12.589 align:middle line:84% multiple different perspectives, or saying 00:09:12.589 --> 00:09:14.056 align:middle line:84% a similar perspective, but at least 00:09:14.056 --> 00:09:16.180 align:middle line:84% understanding what the other different perspectives 00:09:16.180 --> 00:09:19.100 align:middle line:84% are of the people who are inside of that system. 00:09:19.100 --> 00:09:22.190 align:middle line:84% It's just good to take account of-- 00:09:22.190 --> 00:09:23.890 align:middle line:84% PROFESSOR: I think if every player 00:09:23.890 --> 00:09:26.830 align:middle line:84% is taking on the perspective of a single person, that's OK, 00:09:26.830 --> 00:09:29.080 align:middle line:84% even if different players in the same game 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:31.130 align:middle line:84% are taking different perspectives. 00:09:31.130 --> 00:09:32.917 align:middle line:84% I think that might complicate things 00:09:32.917 --> 00:09:35.500 align:middle line:84% a little bit because, again, you end up in the situation where 00:09:35.500 --> 00:09:37.999 align:middle line:84% you're designing basically two very different kinds of games 00:09:37.999 --> 00:09:39.550 align:middle line:84% that are interacting, but some of you 00:09:39.550 --> 00:09:42.130 align:middle line:84% have had experiences with it and made it work. 00:09:42.130 --> 00:09:46.080 align:middle line:84% So it's certainly not out of the question. 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:48.070 align:middle line:84% What we don't want is a situation 00:09:48.070 --> 00:09:53.420 align:middle line:84% where you are simultaneously two people, right? 00:09:53.420 --> 00:09:57.220 align:middle line:84% It's like I am controlling the survivors and the zombies 00:09:57.220 --> 00:09:58.270 align:middle line:90% simultaneously. 00:09:58.270 --> 00:10:02.138 align:middle line:90% That's a little bit weird. 00:10:02.138 --> 00:10:03.126 align:middle line:90% Yep! 00:10:03.126 --> 00:10:06.090 align:middle line:84% AUDIENCE: Can we use a circle persona 00:10:06.090 --> 00:10:09.548 align:middle line:90% who has multiple personalities? 00:10:09.548 --> 00:10:11.030 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] 00:10:11.030 --> 00:10:13.940 align:middle line:90% PROFESSOR: That is-- 00:10:13.940 --> 00:10:17.500 align:middle line:84% We can talk about that, but good luck. 00:10:17.500 --> 00:10:20.980 align:middle line:84% AUDIENCE: So if it's really about the [INAUDIBLE] 00:10:20.980 --> 00:10:22.900 align:middle line:84% interesting way of pulling it out? 00:10:22.900 --> 00:10:25.750 align:middle line:84% Maybe there are multiple players playing 00:10:25.750 --> 00:10:29.390 align:middle line:90% those individual personalities? 00:10:29.390 --> 00:10:32.070 align:middle line:84% I think the biggest focus is the system, right? 00:10:32.070 --> 00:10:34.730 align:middle line:84% PROFESSOR: It should be less about the individual person, 00:10:34.730 --> 00:10:37.460 align:middle line:84% because I get the perspective of that person, 00:10:37.460 --> 00:10:40.715 align:middle line:84% but more about the conditions in which that person lived in. 00:10:40.715 --> 00:10:41.506 align:middle line:90% GUEST SPEAKER: Yes. 00:10:41.506 --> 00:10:44.686 align:middle line:84% AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] game before where 00:10:44.686 --> 00:10:46.852 align:middle line:84% you could be the president of multiple corporations. 00:10:46.852 --> 00:10:51.730 align:middle line:90% 00:10:51.730 --> 00:10:54.355 align:middle line:84% And like, in one corporation you'd 00:10:54.355 --> 00:10:59.220 align:middle line:84% just like embezzle all their money [INAUDIBLE] 00:10:59.220 --> 00:11:04.100 align:middle line:84% GUEST SPEAKER: That sounds like [INAUDIBLE] 00:11:04.100 --> 00:11:07.640 align:middle line:84% PROFESSOR: Yeah, and that's where ostensibly 00:11:07.640 --> 00:11:09.770 align:middle line:84% on a lot of the [INAUDIBLE] games, 00:11:09.770 --> 00:11:12.850 align:middle line:84% your actual role is one of a robber baron, 00:11:12.850 --> 00:11:17.480 align:middle line:84% of a capitalist who lived in the 1800s, who owns 00:11:17.480 --> 00:11:19.230 align:middle line:90% shares in multiple companies. 00:11:19.230 --> 00:11:21.950 align:middle line:84% You're not really the president of a single company, 00:11:21.950 --> 00:11:24.042 align:middle line:84% but you may take on that role somewhere 00:11:24.042 --> 00:11:26.000 align:middle line:84% in the middle of the game, but your role is not 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:27.124 align:middle line:90% defined by being president. 00:11:27.124 --> 00:11:28.820 align:middle line:84% Your role is being defined as being 00:11:28.820 --> 00:11:31.670 align:middle line:84% a person with a lot of money in the 1800s, 00:11:31.670 --> 00:11:34.770 align:middle line:84% and trying to increase that wealth through railroad 00:11:34.770 --> 00:11:35.860 align:middle line:90% systems. 00:11:35.860 --> 00:11:37.970 align:middle line:90% AUDIENCE: Can it be satirical? 00:11:37.970 --> 00:11:38.840 align:middle line:90% GUEST SPEAKER: Yes. 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:40.220 align:middle line:90% PROFESSOR: Absolutely. 00:11:40.220 --> 00:11:42.620 align:middle line:84% Just because you may take your game 00:11:42.620 --> 00:11:44.420 align:middle line:84% to make a game about a serious topic 00:11:44.420 --> 00:11:50.780 align:middle line:84% doesn't necessarily mean your game needs to be dull or somber 00:11:50.780 --> 00:11:54.540 align:middle line:84% and I've got some examples of that. 00:11:54.540 --> 00:11:56.770 align:middle line:90% So how many of you play Crunch? 00:11:56.770 --> 00:12:00.150 align:middle line:90% 00:12:00.150 --> 00:12:01.750 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] Nope? 00:12:01.750 --> 00:12:03.180 align:middle line:90% Two-person card game. 00:12:03.180 --> 00:12:05.860 align:middle line:90% You are a CEO of a bank. 00:12:05.860 --> 00:12:08.120 align:middle line:84% You are trying to get out of the bank 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:12.020 align:middle line:84% with as large a golden parachute as you possibly can. 00:12:12.020 --> 00:12:15.080 align:middle line:84% To hell with the health of the bank itself. 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:22.370 align:middle line:84% This game encourages you to take advantage of the government's 00:12:22.370 --> 00:12:25.070 align:middle line:90% generosity in bailing you out. 00:12:25.070 --> 00:12:29.040 align:middle line:84% It encourages you to hide cards on your body 00:12:29.040 --> 00:12:33.260 align:middle line:84% to secret fund your own personal wealth, 00:12:33.260 --> 00:12:35.240 align:middle line:84% to be able to take money out of your own bank 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:37.510 align:middle line:84% and put it into your own personal accounts, 00:12:37.510 --> 00:12:42.380 align:middle line:84% so that it becomes your fortune rather than the banks fortune. 00:12:42.380 --> 00:12:49.310 align:middle line:84% To make really risky loans that may never pay out. 00:12:49.310 --> 00:12:52.820 align:middle line:84% It came out in 2009, so you can understand 00:12:52.820 --> 00:12:54.490 align:middle line:90% why this game was made. 00:12:54.490 --> 00:12:59.780 align:middle line:84% This company, Terrible Games, basically 00:12:59.780 --> 00:13:03.312 align:middle line:84% makes satirical games that comment on real world 00:13:03.312 --> 00:13:05.270 align:middle line:84% situations, but this one is very, very clearly, 00:13:05.270 --> 00:13:08.190 align:middle line:90% you are a banker. 00:13:08.190 --> 00:13:11.889 align:middle line:84% Well, the satirical version vision of a banker. 00:13:11.889 --> 00:13:13.430 align:middle line:84% They have another game called the War 00:13:13.430 --> 00:13:15.129 align:middle line:84% on Terror, which I did not bring up 00:13:15.129 --> 00:13:16.670 align:middle line:84% because it's a little bit unclear who 00:13:16.670 --> 00:13:18.220 align:middle line:90% you are in that game. 00:13:18.220 --> 00:13:22.600 align:middle line:84% You're supposedly a world power, but are you the President? 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:24.400 align:middle line:90% Are you the government? 00:13:24.400 --> 00:13:26.830 align:middle line:84% Sort of like all of the government at once. 00:13:26.830 --> 00:13:29.140 align:middle line:84% Or are you some sort of media construction of what 00:13:29.140 --> 00:13:33.080 align:middle line:84% that country is because you can get branded as evil, 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:34.690 align:middle line:90% for instance. 00:13:34.690 --> 00:13:36.830 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] evil in it. 00:13:36.830 --> 00:13:41.877 align:middle line:84% But then that doesn't actually change your role 00:13:41.877 --> 00:13:44.210 align:middle line:84% in the game, which is I think part of the point of game. 00:13:44.210 --> 00:13:47.210 align:middle line:84% The point is that whether you are a terrorist state 00:13:47.210 --> 00:13:49.790 align:middle line:84% or not you kind of all engage in the same sort of activities 00:13:49.790 --> 00:13:50.362 align:middle line:90% anyway. 00:13:50.362 --> 00:13:52.070 align:middle line:84% Just being branded as evil just let's you 00:13:52.070 --> 00:13:54.930 align:middle line:84% do it with a little bit more impunity. 00:13:54.930 --> 00:14:00.140 align:middle line:84% Anyway that game's not a great example 00:14:00.140 --> 00:14:02.720 align:middle line:84% of what we're looking for because who you are in the game 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:04.560 align:middle line:90% is not quite well defined. 00:14:04.560 --> 00:14:07.704 align:middle line:84% AUDIENCE: Are these games usually a set number of players 00:14:07.704 --> 00:14:10.526 align:middle line:84% or do they have [INAUDIBLE] range like 2 to 4, 00:14:10.526 --> 00:14:13.020 align:middle line:90% or is it [INAUDIBLE]? 00:14:13.020 --> 00:14:15.330 align:middle line:84% PROFESSOR: This is a two-player game. 00:14:15.330 --> 00:14:19.370 align:middle line:84% Specifically, Campaign Manager 2008, again a two-player game. 00:14:19.370 --> 00:14:20.730 align:middle line:90% Tulipmania has a range. 00:14:20.730 --> 00:14:25.920 align:middle line:84% It really depends on your ability as a game designer 00:14:25.920 --> 00:14:29.820 align:middle line:84% to design for different people, but for this assignment 00:14:29.820 --> 00:14:35.130 align:middle line:84% in particular we're asking for two 00:14:35.130 --> 00:14:38.006 align:middle line:84% to four people, but a specific number. 00:14:38.006 --> 00:14:40.380 align:middle line:84% So you can design a two-player game, a three-player game, 00:14:40.380 --> 00:14:43.950 align:middle line:84% or a four-player game, but raid you don't need to make the game 00:14:43.950 --> 00:14:45.496 align:middle line:84% playable by a range, and that means 00:14:45.496 --> 00:14:47.370 align:middle line:84% you can tune it very specifically for a fixed 00:14:47.370 --> 00:14:48.120 align:middle line:90% number of players. 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:51.240 align:middle line:90% 00:14:51.240 --> 00:14:53.160 align:middle line:84% The gentlemen of the South Sandwich Islands 00:14:53.160 --> 00:14:56.160 align:middle line:84% is an absurd game of logic discovered in 1821, 00:14:56.160 --> 00:14:57.300 align:middle line:90% which is not true at all. 00:14:57.300 --> 00:15:01.530 align:middle line:84% It was really kick-started as a project about three years ago. 00:15:01.530 --> 00:15:03.530 align:middle line:90% Four years ago, maybe? 00:15:03.530 --> 00:15:04.860 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:15:04.860 --> 00:15:07.410 align:middle line:84% This is interesting because this is probably 00:15:07.410 --> 00:15:09.840 align:middle line:84% right at the edge of what I would consider acceptable 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:12.060 align:middle line:90% for classical. 00:15:12.060 --> 00:15:16.110 align:middle line:84% This is a game about sort of fantastical courtship 00:15:16.110 --> 00:15:17.460 align:middle line:90% where you are trying-- 00:15:17.460 --> 00:15:19.290 align:middle line:84% where you are two gentlemen trying 00:15:19.290 --> 00:15:21.450 align:middle line:84% to win the affection of ladies who 00:15:21.450 --> 00:15:26.740 align:middle line:84% are walking around this island, but and also there are-- 00:15:26.740 --> 00:15:28.500 align:middle line:90% there-- what's the word? 00:15:28.500 --> 00:15:33.200 align:middle line:90% 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:34.198 align:middle line:90% the handlers 00:15:34.198 --> 00:15:35.960 align:middle line:90% AUDIENCE: What do you call it? 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:40.280 align:middle line:90% 00:15:40.280 --> 00:15:42.355 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] chaperone. 00:15:42.355 --> 00:15:43.230 align:middle line:90% PROFESSOR: Chaperone. 00:15:43.230 --> 00:15:43.730 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:15:43.730 --> 00:15:46.170 align:middle line:84% But the chaperones are also following them 00:15:46.170 --> 00:15:48.420 align:middle line:84% around here trying to get them alone, so that they can 00:15:48.420 --> 00:15:49.920 align:middle line:90% have a quiet talk with them. 00:15:49.920 --> 00:15:53.602 align:middle line:90% Kind of the game of Jane Austen. 00:15:53.602 --> 00:15:56.010 align:middle line:84% Now Jane Austen, of course, was writing about some 00:15:56.010 --> 00:15:58.957 align:middle line:84% of the social situations, but every single character that she 00:15:58.957 --> 00:16:00.040 align:middle line:90% wrote about was fictional. 00:16:00.040 --> 00:16:01.930 align:middle line:84% But, the world that she was writing about 00:16:01.930 --> 00:16:03.580 align:middle line:90% is at least plausible. 00:16:03.580 --> 00:16:05.417 align:middle line:90% And it's based on [INAUDIBLE]. 00:16:05.417 --> 00:16:07.000 align:middle line:84% You want to look at something and make 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:10.830 align:middle line:84% the game set in Dickens' Oliver Twist or something like that, 00:16:10.830 --> 00:16:12.840 align:middle line:90% you can. 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:18.530 align:middle line:84% You could be individual people in that setting. 00:16:18.530 --> 00:16:23.760 align:middle line:84% Do pay some mind onto how grounded in reality 00:16:23.760 --> 00:16:24.727 align:middle line:90% those things were. 00:16:24.727 --> 00:16:26.310 align:middle line:84% The more grounded they are in reality, 00:16:26.310 --> 00:16:30.790 align:middle line:84% the more different sources you can pull out for inspiration. 00:16:30.790 --> 00:16:34.500 align:middle line:84% If it's just like, well this was just the fantastical invention 00:16:34.500 --> 00:16:38.220 align:middle line:84% of one person in this game or something like that, 00:16:38.220 --> 00:16:43.130 align:middle line:84% then you'll only have Scott Card's writing as a reference. 00:16:43.130 --> 00:16:44.880 align:middle line:84% Whereas with Jane Austen, you can actually 00:16:44.880 --> 00:16:46.350 align:middle line:84% look at real historical stuff to be 00:16:46.350 --> 00:16:49.470 align:middle line:84% able to get more ideas about how that social system works 00:16:49.470 --> 00:16:51.840 align:middle line:84% and actually Jane Austen's books are actually 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:53.310 align:middle line:90% these social systems. 00:16:53.310 --> 00:16:57.510 align:middle line:84% And they're incredibly complicated. 00:16:57.510 --> 00:17:00.920 align:middle line:84% But this game is really just about walking across bridges 00:17:00.920 --> 00:17:03.560 align:middle line:84% and being on a very small island, so this 00:17:03.560 --> 00:17:05.940 align:middle line:84% is a sort of a holiday island or just 00:17:05.940 --> 00:17:08.940 align:middle line:84% trying to get quiet talks with ladies. 00:17:08.940 --> 00:17:11.510 align:middle line:90% 00:17:11.510 --> 00:17:12.010 align:middle line:90% Yes? 00:17:12.010 --> 00:17:16.772 align:middle line:90% AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] 00:17:16.772 --> 00:17:18.230 align:middle line:84% PROFESSOR: Yes, I don't want a game 00:17:18.230 --> 00:17:19.930 align:middle line:84% that takes more than four people to play definitely. 00:17:19.930 --> 00:17:20.460 align:middle line:84% GUEST SPEAKER: For us to grade, it's 00:17:20.460 --> 00:17:22.099 align:middle line:84% hard to get more than four people. 00:17:22.099 --> 00:17:24.750 align:middle line:84% PROFESSOR: Yeah, you will be getting your grade in August 00:17:24.750 --> 00:17:28.890 align:middle line:84% if you give me a game that requires six people. 00:17:28.890 --> 00:17:30.532 align:middle line:84% I can't get that many people in a room. 00:17:30.532 --> 00:17:31.907 align:middle line:84% GUEST SPEAKER: You want your team 00:17:31.907 --> 00:17:34.540 align:middle line:84% to be no bigger than four or five still. 00:17:34.540 --> 00:17:37.990 align:middle line:84% PROFESSOR: It's easier to test [INAUDIBLE] at least 00:17:37.990 --> 00:17:40.290 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] the game. 00:17:40.290 --> 00:17:43.590 align:middle line:84% Something to think about is agency. 00:17:43.590 --> 00:17:47.269 align:middle line:84% Not just how does the world look like to that person. 00:17:47.269 --> 00:17:48.810 align:middle line:84% Like for instance in Source of Denial 00:17:48.810 --> 00:17:53.650 align:middle line:84% you are colonial European power for the most part right? 00:17:53.650 --> 00:17:57.480 align:middle line:84% And you're seeing the continent of Africa 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:01.650 align:middle line:84% as this resource rich land to grab stuff out of. 00:18:01.650 --> 00:18:03.250 align:middle line:90% That's the perspective. 00:18:03.250 --> 00:18:04.650 align:middle line:90% But then what are the verbs? 00:18:04.650 --> 00:18:08.136 align:middle line:84% What are the things you can do in that context? 00:18:08.136 --> 00:18:11.874 align:middle line:84% In [INAUDIBLE], you are in communist Poland in the 1980s. 00:18:11.874 --> 00:18:13.080 align:middle line:90% Poland? 00:18:13.080 --> 00:18:13.890 align:middle line:90% Poland, right? 00:18:13.890 --> 00:18:16.020 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:18:16.020 --> 00:18:17.760 align:middle line:84% And the only thing that you can do 00:18:17.760 --> 00:18:21.180 align:middle line:84% is stand in line for rationed goods, 00:18:21.180 --> 00:18:23.640 align:middle line:84% but what you can do is you can affect 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:29.640 align:middle line:84% your place in line by let's see carrying around a cute baby 00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:32.890 align:middle line:90% is one of them that are on here. 00:18:32.890 --> 00:18:35.320 align:middle line:84% I believe you can knock somebody's hat off 00:18:35.320 --> 00:18:41.180 align:middle line:84% or you can change which line you're standing on 00:18:41.180 --> 00:18:42.920 align:middle line:84% so maybe instead of waiting for dry goods 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:45.600 align:middle line:90% you are waiting for furniture. 00:18:45.600 --> 00:18:46.500 align:middle line:90% That's our thing. 00:18:46.500 --> 00:18:48.900 align:middle line:84% It's kind of neat because all the goods that we actually 00:18:48.900 --> 00:18:50.580 align:middle line:84% have in here are actually pictures 00:18:50.580 --> 00:18:53.560 align:middle line:84% of the actual rationed goods that were available in Poland 00:18:53.560 --> 00:18:54.060 align:middle line:90% in 1980s. 00:18:54.060 --> 00:18:56.280 align:middle line:84% In fact this was a project that was 00:18:56.280 --> 00:19:01.210 align:middle line:84% funded by some Polish historical institute. 00:19:01.210 --> 00:19:03.510 align:middle line:84% But the only agency you have in this game 00:19:03.510 --> 00:19:06.550 align:middle line:84% is, which line are you standing in and where in line 00:19:06.550 --> 00:19:09.540 align:middle line:84% are you standing because that's the perspective that they 00:19:09.540 --> 00:19:11.620 align:middle line:90% want to get across to you. 00:19:11.620 --> 00:19:16.680 align:middle line:84% And so your whole game is all about jockeying for position. 00:19:16.680 --> 00:19:18.840 align:middle line:84% And it's actually a pretty well-designed game. 00:19:18.840 --> 00:19:21.330 align:middle line:90% We played it a few times. 00:19:21.330 --> 00:19:24.180 align:middle line:84% That has both the perspective of this 00:19:24.180 --> 00:19:25.470 align:middle line:90% is what the world looks like. 00:19:25.470 --> 00:19:29.940 align:middle line:84% The world looks like a bunch of lines for rationed goods to me 00:19:29.940 --> 00:19:31.620 align:middle line:84% as someone who lives in that world. 00:19:31.620 --> 00:19:35.220 align:middle line:84% It's a kind of satirical lighthearted tone, 00:19:35.220 --> 00:19:38.700 align:middle line:84% but it's grounded in reality as it's the only thing I can do. 00:19:38.700 --> 00:19:41.370 align:middle line:84% What can I do about this world that's 00:19:41.370 --> 00:19:43.440 align:middle line:84% going to give me some interesting decisions 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:44.340 align:middle line:90% to make, right? 00:19:44.340 --> 00:19:47.750 align:middle line:84% And it's going to be which line do I want to wait for? 00:19:47.750 --> 00:19:52.200 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] again, historical-- 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:55.890 align:middle line:84% I can't remember which decade this is in, though. 00:19:55.890 --> 00:19:57.790 align:middle line:90% AUDIENCE: 1890s is it? 00:19:57.790 --> 00:20:01.339 align:middle line:84% PROFESSOR: I think that sounds right. 00:20:01.339 --> 00:20:02.880 align:middle line:84% Somewhere in the rules they mentioned 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:04.680 align:middle line:90% it and it's about Manhattan. 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:07.666 align:middle line:84% It's about ruling New York where it 00:20:07.666 --> 00:20:09.540 align:middle line:84% says it's a game of backstabbing, corruption, 00:20:09.540 --> 00:20:11.206 align:middle line:84% temporary alliances and you're basically 00:20:11.206 --> 00:20:13.170 align:middle line:90% just running for mayor. 00:20:13.170 --> 00:20:15.720 align:middle line:84% And if you can't get mayor, you're 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:17.604 align:middle line:90% running for other city offices. 00:20:17.604 --> 00:20:19.770 align:middle line:84% Turns out that actually as soon as you become mayor, 00:20:19.770 --> 00:20:22.687 align:middle line:84% you have a giant target painted on your back and everybody 00:20:22.687 --> 00:20:25.020 align:middle line:84% else who is in other positions, but you can become chief 00:20:25.020 --> 00:20:28.970 align:middle line:90% of police, precinct chairman. 00:20:28.970 --> 00:20:32.970 align:middle line:84% You then abuse those powers to sort 00:20:32.970 --> 00:20:35.310 align:middle line:84% of place new immigrants in different worlds 00:20:35.310 --> 00:20:38.440 align:middle line:84% and change the demographic makeup of different worlds 00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:43.230 align:middle line:84% of different boroughs in New York 00:20:43.230 --> 00:20:45.164 align:middle line:84% to be able to change the way how they vote. 00:20:45.164 --> 00:20:46.055 align:middle line:90% AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] 00:20:46.055 --> 00:20:47.430 align:middle line:84% PROFESSOR: The object of the game 00:20:47.430 --> 00:20:49.270 align:middle line:84% is victory points for the most part. 00:20:49.270 --> 00:20:51.780 align:middle line:84% But the victory points you can get it by becoming mayor, 00:20:51.780 --> 00:20:54.930 align:middle line:84% but then you're not staying there for long. 00:20:54.930 --> 00:21:01.360 align:middle line:84% AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] machine and trying to control it? 00:21:01.360 --> 00:21:04.592 align:middle line:84% And the agency that you have is really 00:21:04.592 --> 00:21:07.140 align:middle line:84% just you were able to coerce people 00:21:07.140 --> 00:21:09.056 align:middle line:84% to come to various locations and you're 00:21:09.056 --> 00:21:10.180 align:middle line:90% trying to get the vote out. 00:21:10.180 --> 00:21:15.600 align:middle line:84% So [INAUDIBLE] were 14 people [INAUDIBLE] 00:21:15.600 --> 00:21:19.156 align:middle line:84% or doing things like having free food [INAUDIBLE] things 00:21:19.156 --> 00:21:19.780 align:middle line:90% like that. 00:21:19.780 --> 00:21:22.800 align:middle line:84% PROFESSOR: You could possibly evict people from boroughs 00:21:22.800 --> 00:21:25.740 align:middle line:84% and move them into other boroughs 00:21:25.740 --> 00:21:31.680 align:middle line:84% to create not ghettos, what am I thinking? 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:33.780 align:middle line:90% AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] 00:21:33.780 --> 00:21:37.885 align:middle line:84% PROFESSOR: [INAUDIBLE] the districts, right? 00:21:37.885 --> 00:21:38.760 align:middle line:90% AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] 00:21:38.760 --> 00:21:41.790 align:middle line:84% PROFESSOR: Yeah, instead of changing the minds, 00:21:41.790 --> 00:21:43.230 align:middle line:90% they're actually moving people. 00:21:43.230 --> 00:21:46.320 align:middle line:84% Yeah because you know if you're chief of police, 00:21:46.320 --> 00:21:48.810 align:middle line:84% you can just grab people and put them somewhere else. 00:21:48.810 --> 00:21:52.380 align:middle line:90% You can throw them off New York. 00:21:52.380 --> 00:21:55.670 align:middle line:90% So that's their view. 00:21:55.670 --> 00:21:59.120 align:middle line:84% Yeah that's a perspective they are 00:21:59.120 --> 00:22:01.480 align:middle line:90% trying to place, this abuse-- 00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:06.270 align:middle line:84% they're asking-- they're saying that in this era if you're 00:22:06.270 --> 00:22:07.980 align:middle line:84% one of these people you are actively 00:22:07.980 --> 00:22:11.010 align:middle line:84% engaging in the abuse of power to sort of play 00:22:11.010 --> 00:22:15.120 align:middle line:90% with the lives of immigrants. 00:22:15.120 --> 00:22:18.810 align:middle line:84% So, yeah, it turns out that it's just more 00:22:18.810 --> 00:22:22.080 align:middle line:90% of a game of territory. 00:22:22.080 --> 00:22:24.200 align:middle line:84% When you actually play the game you 00:22:24.200 --> 00:22:27.510 align:middle line:84% are looking at Manhattan as a bunch of resources 00:22:27.510 --> 00:22:35.190 align:middle line:84% that get moving around, but it's a very specific perspective 00:22:35.190 --> 00:22:38.940 align:middle line:84% and I think the game is played over a period of 16 00:22:38.940 --> 00:22:43.380 align:middle line:84% years, which is [INAUDIBLE] or something that. 00:22:43.380 --> 00:22:46.860 align:middle line:84% So check it out when you get a chance. 00:22:46.860 --> 00:22:49.620 align:middle line:84% Any questions about assignment three? 00:22:49.620 --> 00:22:54.730 align:middle line:90% 00:22:54.730 --> 00:22:59.090 align:middle line:84% Now one little wrinkle is on April 16th, 00:22:59.090 --> 00:23:03.760 align:middle line:84% which is just two weeks from now we want you to come in here 00:23:03.760 --> 00:23:09.580 align:middle line:84% and give us a pitch presentation on what you've decided 00:23:09.580 --> 00:23:11.680 align:middle line:84% to do with your project and we want 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:15.130 align:middle line:84% to see a concise description of how you expect it to be played 00:23:15.130 --> 00:23:21.100 align:middle line:84% at least two weeks into the project at what you decided 00:23:21.100 --> 00:23:22.187 align:middle line:90% so far. 00:23:22.187 --> 00:23:23.770 align:middle line:84% Because [INAUDIBLE] you want to create 00:23:23.770 --> 00:23:26.140 align:middle line:84% so you want to tell us what kind of feel 00:23:26.140 --> 00:23:28.130 align:middle line:84% you want to get out, whose perspective this is. 00:23:28.130 --> 00:23:31.930 align:middle line:84% What type of agency that you're likely to have in the game. 00:23:31.930 --> 00:23:33.960 align:middle line:84% Very important to tell us where you 00:23:33.960 --> 00:23:36.640 align:middle line:84% are drawing your historical references from if it's 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:39.470 align:middle line:84% a history game, where you're drawing information from. 00:23:39.470 --> 00:23:42.580 align:middle line:84% If it's a contemporary game what are you using to inform 00:23:42.580 --> 00:23:45.070 align:middle line:90% this thing, your experience. 00:23:45.070 --> 00:23:47.860 align:middle line:84% Now you could theoretically all make a game 00:23:47.860 --> 00:23:54.707 align:middle line:84% about being an MIT student at MIT in 2014. 00:23:54.707 --> 00:23:57.040 align:middle line:84% I'm going to encourage you to think a little bit broader 00:23:57.040 --> 00:24:01.090 align:middle line:84% than that because you don't need any additional information. 00:24:01.090 --> 00:24:06.130 align:middle line:84% And that's why it's kind of boring to get that degree. 00:24:06.130 --> 00:24:08.920 align:middle line:84% You can draw inspiration from other games 00:24:08.920 --> 00:24:14.650 align:middle line:84% but also books, websites news articles, 00:24:14.650 --> 00:24:20.740 align:middle line:84% not just Wikipedia but Wikipedia can be a useful resource 00:24:20.740 --> 00:24:26.140 align:middle line:84% to find other stuff but we want you to give that presentation 00:24:26.140 --> 00:24:29.050 align:middle line:84% as if you were seeking green light as if you were going 00:24:29.050 --> 00:24:30.820 align:middle line:84% to a publisher saying, please give me 00:24:30.820 --> 00:24:34.480 align:middle line:84% money to be able to continue work on this game. 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:37.210 align:middle line:84% We're not going to fund you down we're not 00:24:37.210 --> 00:24:39.070 align:middle line:84% going to cancel your project but we 00:24:39.070 --> 00:24:43.280 align:middle line:84% are going to give you feedback both on how you can improve 00:24:43.280 --> 00:24:44.920 align:middle line:84% the project on what we've heard, also 00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:46.884 align:middle line:90% on your presentation skills. 00:24:46.884 --> 00:24:49.050 align:middle line:84% That's going to be one of the few time in this class 00:24:49.050 --> 00:24:50.650 align:middle line:84% where we're talking specifically about how 00:24:50.650 --> 00:24:52.775 align:middle line:84% you deliver the presentation because you might have 00:24:52.775 --> 00:24:54.850 align:middle line:84% to do that one day and there are other classes 00:24:54.850 --> 00:24:59.530 align:middle line:84% especially [? CMS 610, ?] where you will get a lot of practice 00:24:59.530 --> 00:25:03.070 align:middle line:84% doing pitching so this is a little taste of that if you 00:25:03.070 --> 00:25:05.660 align:middle line:84% want to be able to get more practice 00:25:05.660 --> 00:25:07.330 align:middle line:84% I encourage you to look at that class. 00:25:07.330 --> 00:25:10.680 align:middle line:90% 00:25:10.680 --> 00:25:13.837 align:middle line:84% everything else at the end of the semester 00:25:13.837 --> 00:25:15.920 align:middle line:84% you're going to do the same sort of a presentation 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:18.070 align:middle line:90% you gave today. 00:25:18.070 --> 00:25:19.150 align:middle line:90% We expect change logs. 00:25:19.150 --> 00:25:23.250 align:middle line:90% We expect a one page write up. 00:25:23.250 --> 00:25:25.810 align:middle line:84% The one big difference is that everything 00:25:25.810 --> 00:25:30.190 align:middle line:84% needs to be handed in at the same time. 00:25:30.190 --> 00:25:31.660 align:middle line:84% Previously you could hand in your 00:25:31.660 --> 00:25:34.510 align:middle line:84% write up the following week, I believe 00:25:34.510 --> 00:25:37.270 align:middle line:84% that's the case for this assignment. 00:25:37.270 --> 00:25:41.440 align:middle line:84% We can't do that for the final assignment in a MIT [INAUDIBLE] 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:44.997 align:middle line:90% because of MIT course rules. 00:25:44.997 --> 00:25:47.080 align:middle line:84% You can't hand in anything late and only the class 00:25:47.080 --> 00:25:49.079 align:middle line:84% can ask you to hand in anything later than that. 00:25:49.079 --> 00:25:50.740 align:middle line:90% 00:25:50.740 --> 00:25:54.200 align:middle line:84% So everything is due on the 14th. 00:25:54.200 --> 00:25:57.490 align:middle line:84% Finally, we have a bunch of guest lecturers 00:25:57.490 --> 00:25:59.550 align:middle line:90% that will be coming in. 00:25:59.550 --> 00:26:02.210 align:middle line:84% This is starting to segue into what 00:26:02.210 --> 00:26:04.880 align:middle line:84% you do with the information that you're getting in this class 00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:07.420 align:middle line:90% after this class is over. 00:26:07.420 --> 00:26:10.190 align:middle line:84% April 9th, exactly a week from now, 00:26:10.190 --> 00:26:13.210 align:middle line:84% will be the Game Makers Skill people 00:26:13.210 --> 00:26:15.460 align:middle line:84% who actually are a collection of people 00:26:15.460 --> 00:26:17.950 align:middle line:84% here in Cambridge who make board games and card 00:26:17.950 --> 00:26:21.610 align:middle line:84% games for retail, but have been funded 00:26:21.610 --> 00:26:23.140 align:middle line:84% through a range of different sources 00:26:23.140 --> 00:26:24.764 align:middle line:84% all the way from traditional publishing 00:26:24.764 --> 00:26:28.732 align:middle line:84% model to Kickstarter, and they all talk 00:26:28.732 --> 00:26:30.190 align:middle line:84% about their experiences and what it 00:26:30.190 --> 00:26:32.680 align:middle line:84% took to be able to take these ideas into something 00:26:32.680 --> 00:26:36.610 align:middle line:84% that people could buy off the shelf. 00:26:36.610 --> 00:26:38.230 align:middle line:84% We also have another guest lecturer 00:26:38.230 --> 00:26:40.400 align:middle line:84% from The Geneva University of Art and Design. 00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:42.280 align:middle line:84% These are mostly masters students and people 00:26:42.280 --> 00:26:44.230 align:middle line:84% who recently graduated from masters programs 00:26:44.230 --> 00:26:46.810 align:middle line:84% and are going to a design school that are 00:26:46.810 --> 00:26:48.120 align:middle line:90% thinking about game playing. 00:26:48.120 --> 00:26:51.270 align:middle line:84% They're mostly tech designs, so they're 00:26:51.270 --> 00:26:53.819 align:middle line:84% digital games for the most part but because it's 00:26:53.819 --> 00:26:55.360 align:middle line:84% an art school they're actually pretty 00:26:55.360 --> 00:26:57.990 align:middle line:84% broad minded in what happens in the computer 00:26:57.990 --> 00:26:59.740 align:middle line:84% and what happens outside of the computer. 00:26:59.740 --> 00:27:00.950 align:middle line:84% So that should be fairly interesting. 00:27:00.950 --> 00:27:02.991 align:middle line:84% They're gonna talk a little bit about their work. 00:27:02.991 --> 00:27:05.230 align:middle line:90% 00:27:05.230 --> 00:27:07.720 align:middle line:84% [INAUDIBLE] will be coming in May 7th. 00:27:07.720 --> 00:27:10.000 align:middle line:90% He is a theorist. 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:12.590 align:middle line:84% He actually currently teaches at a number of places, 00:27:12.590 --> 00:27:14.800 align:middle line:90% including New York University. 00:27:14.800 --> 00:27:16.110 align:middle line:90% He used to teach here at MIT. 00:27:16.110 --> 00:27:20.260 align:middle line:84% He is probably best known among game scholars 00:27:20.260 --> 00:27:25.060 align:middle line:84% for writing his books on the Art of Failure, A Casual 00:27:25.060 --> 00:27:27.960 align:middle line:90% Revolution, [INAUDIBLE]. 00:27:27.960 --> 00:27:32.830 align:middle line:84% These are the three books that are about games and how-- 00:27:32.830 --> 00:27:35.170 align:middle line:84% not so much how designers think about games, 00:27:35.170 --> 00:27:40.720 align:middle line:84% but how to analyze games from sort of abstract perspective. 00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:44.140 align:middle line:84% [INAUDIBLE] If you're interested in those books, 00:27:44.140 --> 00:27:48.100 align:middle line:84% please feel free to check out our library and game lab. 00:27:48.100 --> 00:27:50.686 align:middle line:84% I'll be happy to let you have a look. 00:27:50.686 --> 00:27:52.060 align:middle line:84% They're really, really easy reads 00:27:52.060 --> 00:27:56.730 align:middle line:84% because he believes in padding out his books with images. 00:27:56.730 --> 00:27:58.564 align:middle line:84% He has told us this very specifically. 00:27:58.564 --> 00:28:00.730 align:middle line:84% He was like, "Well, I could write about half as much 00:28:00.730 --> 00:28:03.250 align:middle line:84% and then just have larger images and then the book becomes 00:28:03.250 --> 00:28:09.310 align:middle line:84% bigger. " He also makes games and he'll be here to not only 00:28:09.310 --> 00:28:12.580 align:middle line:84% talk about his current work and what he's working on right now, 00:28:12.580 --> 00:28:15.940 align:middle line:84% but also play test games on me, so I can give you some 00:28:15.940 --> 00:28:17.880 align:middle line:84% feedback, because he's taught here before, 00:28:17.880 --> 00:28:22.180 align:middle line:84% he's been part of this class a couple of years ago. 00:28:22.180 --> 00:28:24.910 align:middle line:84% So please don't miss any of the guest lecturers. 00:28:24.910 --> 00:28:28.240 align:middle line:84% They're great folks and give you an idea of what you could 00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:30.010 align:middle line:84% do if you want to go to design school, 00:28:30.010 --> 00:28:31.900 align:middle line:84% if you want to go to academia, if you wanted 00:28:31.900 --> 00:28:34.350 align:middle line:84% to make your own games and publish them, 00:28:34.350 --> 00:28:36.087 align:middle line:90% and make commercial product. 00:28:36.087 --> 00:28:38.170 align:middle line:84% Just give you some perspective on what you can do. 00:28:38.170 --> 00:28:41.454 align:middle line:90% 00:28:41.454 --> 00:28:42.870 align:middle line:84% All right who's games are actually 00:28:42.870 --> 00:28:44.380 align:middle line:90% ready at this point in time? 00:28:44.380 --> 00:28:45.930 align:middle line:90% Everyone's ready? 00:28:45.930 --> 00:28:46.500 align:middle line:90% Awesome. 00:28:46.500 --> 00:28:48.530 align:middle line:90% Let's play those games. 00:28:48.530 --> 00:28:54.932 align:middle line:90%