The Game Jam started Wednesday 14th October 2020, during our evening webinar. The first thing I did is play an hour of Among Us for inspiration. The second thing I did was plan my SMART goals. Dixit is always a wonderful instigator for creativity, and the surrealist illustrations lend themselves to this type of activity and … Continue reading Week 5 Rapid Ideation One (Part One of Two)
Category: Development
Development – to document the development of my research project(s) and assignments.
Week 5 Reflective domain chart "Step 1 Review each of the entries you created in your journal one at a time. Which of the five reflective domains are mentioned? Edit each individual entry and use the tagging system to tag it with the reflective domains mentioned. Multiple domain tags can be used for a single … Continue reading Week 5 The Five Reflective Domains & SMART Goals
For Week 5, we are looking at Reflective Writing in more detail. I have been practising writing in my blog for a few weeks now and reflecting on the materials, discussion topics and the challenge activities. For the Spark Forum, we looked at Reflect on-action, in-action and for-action. "Reflection-in-action is reflection during the ‘doing’ stage … Continue reading Week 5 Reflective Writing
Material Week 1 OrientationGetting to know each otherSetting out our goals for the module and our futureWeek 2 CreativityWhat is 'creativity'?Creative techniquesICEDIPWeek 3 PrototypingReverse-engineeringNarrative prototyping Personal Development Twine - "an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories" (Twine 2020).Getting to know the September 2020 cohort Reflect-in-action Please see my blog posts for Sprint 1 for … Continue reading Sprint 1 Reflection
"One of the best ways to hone your prototyping skills is to reverse engineer the finished work of other practitioners you admire. This allows you to practise with the various tools and unpack the design theory behind the work in question. To complete this activity, identify an artefact you feel is particularly interesting. This could … Continue reading Week 3 Challenge activity
Thoughts on my Spark Forum post: I signed up to the games jam for Women In Games to participate, but I did not want to pressure myself to finish a game. I wanted to set unrealistic targets, learn ambitiously and see how successful teams approached their games jams. While I planned not to submit a game, I … Continue reading Week 3 Spark forum