Gaming, Narrative and Machinima

Course aim

Introduce students to the emerging field of games studies, fulfilling a need for an examination of this expanding and influential medium from social, cultural, political and aesthetic perspectives, and introduce them to video game software and narrative through the creation of a piece of machinima (‘machine animation’)

Course content

The history of computer games and the games industry; platforms; games and ‘moral panics’; interactive narrative and ‘gameplay’; history of machinima; tools of machinima; storyboarding a machinima production; video editing software, audio editing software.

Textbook(s)

Raessens, Joost & Goldstein, Jeffrey (eds) 2005, Handbook of Computer Game Studies, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, OFFSHORE, KAPLAN HIGHER EDUCATION - HONG KONG (INTENSIVE)
Lecture (Lecture and workshop)	5 hours x 5 days

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Analytical exercise, Essay on games and interactive narrative, Machinima artefact or machinima essay

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.250
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