1: Topic introduction

• Review
• Looking at logic. Download examples here.

2: Hands-on and material exploration

• In pairs, make inverse programs.
• Add an element of timing to the object you made yesterday.
• Interactivity: can you make a sketch with two inputs?
  • E.g. a rollover button and a clickable button, or a keypress and a mouse click.

3: Discussion and reflection activity

Brainstorm games

• Come up with a simple single player game. Try to keep the mechanic and interaction as simple as possible to start out.
• Using paper and pens, make a prototype or storyboard.
• Mechanics
  • What is the goal? What does the player do?
  • How do you win or finish?
• Details
  • How do you detect if the player is achieving the goal?
  • How do you communicate to the player how they are doing?
  • Are there different states? Playing mode/game over? Levels?
  • Does the game involve timing?
  • What are the smaller problems you need work through to tackle the bigger problem?

Inspiration

• Games made with processing
• One Button Games
• Conway’s Game of Life
• Radical Games
• Doors, playable philosophy
• Soft Corruptor
• Junk Nest City
• Coming Out Simulator
• The Button
• A Game Played Out over 30 Years
• Lawrence
• Atari 2600 Library
• Slam City Oracles
• Hot Date
• Gone Home
• Nidhogg
• Dear Esther
• Juggle
• Sneaky Cactus
• Perfect Woman
• Royals
• Games for Change
• Games made with p5.js
• PVI Collective

4: Wrap-up and next session

• We will start building our games, and look at incorporating sound, images and text.