welcome to

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welcome to
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Objectives

• Introductions
• background
• Hands on make 1st game

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motivation

• James Paul Gee Games, not school, are teaching
  kids to think.
• Todd Oppeheimer The Flickering Mind

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Goals of this course

• Learn about game design
• Learn about education
• Learn how to build real-time graphics
• Work in interdisciplinary teams (computer
  science, fine art, education)
• Learn to work in group presentation and
  communication skills
• Research find relevant support material and
  present solution to others
• Evolve designs by presenting to larger group
• Critique other people's design
• React to other people's critique

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What this course is and isnt

• Not an opportunity to make DOOM 4
• CS students you will have to work with students
  and teachers

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Challenge how to connect the game and education
domain?
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How not to merge games and education

• Before you go on, what is Newtons 1st Law?
• Fma
• FGMm/r2
• VIR
• None of the above

http//research.microsoft.com/sdrucker/Presentati
ons/Making20Tools20for20Making20Games.ppt
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Prototyping with AgentSheets

• Be able to express and communicate complex ideas
• Education
• History
• Math
• Music
• Geology
• Logic
• Programming
• Art

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AgentSheets in India

• When the Jiva-Java Project started, its 20
  secondary students had never used a mouse or seen
  the Web. Three weeks later, they had created
  applets (using Agentsheets authorware) and linked
  them to their own Web pages
• Ed Gaible at the Jiva Institute
• Faridabad, Haryana , India

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Out of this World(very distance education)

• NASA used AgentSheets to simulate an E.coli in
  microgravity experiment aboard the space shuttle
  Discovery with John Glenn

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Your Turn
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Homework 1

• Download AgentSheets (agentsheets.com)
• Install
• Follow tutorial
• Think about how to make Sokoban