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    This document provides an overview of the course "Digital Games Cultures" which investigates the emergence of digital games through both an industrial analysis and player perspective. The course covers topics such as definitions of games, the history and business of games, appropriation and player practices, censorship and regulation issues, and Australian games culture. Assessment includes weekly blog posts, a group game pitch, presentations, and a final game proposal dossier. The goal is to understand games as a cultural phenomenon and industry through examining production, consumption and play.

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    This document provides an overview of the course "Digital Games Cultures" which investigates the emergence of digital games through both an industrial analysis and player perspective. The course covers topics such as definitions of games, the history and business of games, appropriation and player practices, censorship and regulation issues, and Australian games culture. Assessment includes weekly blog posts, a group game pitch, presentations, and a final game proposal dossier. The goal is to understand games as a cultural phenomenon and industry through examining production, consumption and play.

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    Digital Games

    Cultures

    Week One March 3 2010


    Today’s Lecture

    Subject Outline and Course Structure

    Games and the Pleasures of New Media

    Formal Definitions – What is a Game?

    Image by Wonderlane
    Subject Descriptio

    ...investigates the emergence of digital


    games cultures through an industrial
    analytical approach and from the
    perspective of the player. With
    critical attention to the examination
    of games production and appropriative
    play practices,
    Contact Details
    Dr Chris Moore [email protected]

    consultation via email appointment

    for Monday and Thursday

    Modes of delivery: 1 hour lecture

    and 2 hour computer lab seminar


    Subject Requirements
    To complete the subject students must
    Submit all Assignments on Time and meet the
    minimum attendance requirement for
    lab/tutorial AND lectures in this subject.

    Attendance to lectures and tutorial


    is not optional. Attendance to lectures is
    necessary in order to complete the weekly
    blogging task.
    Schedule
    st
    1 March - Introduction to Digital
    Games Cultures
    th
    8 March - The Archaeology of
    Digital Games
    th
    15 March - Game Spaces: Place and
    Mobility
    nd
    22 March - The Console and the
    Living Room
    th
    29 March - PC Games and Gamers
    by goodrob13
    th
    5 April - MID SESSION RECESS
    Schedule
    th
    12 April - Appropriation and Play: Mods and Machinima
    - Group Game Pitch Presentation during
    Lab/Tutorial This week.
    th
    19 April - Violent Media: in ‘Hot Coffee’
    th
    26 April - Censorship and Regulation
    3rd
    May - Australian Games and Gamers
    th
    10 May - Guest lecture
    th
    17 May - Game Project Presentations (No Lecture)
    th
    24 May - Game Project Presentations (No Lecture)
    st
    31 May - (No Lecture) Short concluding seminar.
    Weekly Blogging Component

    Assessed in Week 4, Wed March


    24 by 8pm and in Week 10,
    April Wednesday 28 by 8pm)

    Weighting: Week 4: 10% + Week


    10: 20%

    Length: Week 4: 300 words,


    Week 10: 500 words.
    ‘The Pitch’
    Group Game
    Design Proposal

    Due: Wednesday
    Week 6, April 15
    weighting: 10%
    length: 10 minutes

    by cazpoo
    Game Design Group
    Presentation
    due: during lab/tutorials on Wednesday Week
    11 (May 19) and Wednesday Week 12 (May
    26). weighting: 25%
    Game Proposal Dossier

    Due: Week 14 – June 9


    Length: 1500 + audio/visual material
    Weight: 25%
    Why study games?
     58 billion in global revenue „ bigger than
    Hollywood?
     global games and our cultural lives
     understanding interactivity
     pervasiveness of games
     broader implications of digital media and social
    relationships
     recession proof industry?
    Kerr Aphra, Kucklich Julian,
    Brereton, Pat 2006, 'New media -
    new pleasures?' International
    Journal of Cultural Studies,
    vol. 9, no. 1, pp.63-82.
    Meaningful Content
    Pleasure and Cultural
    Consumption

    by meddygarnet
    What is a Game?
    Formal Definitions
    Egenfeldt-Nielsen et al, 2008 Chapter 3,
    'What is a game?' Understanding Video
    Games The Essential Introduction
    (Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Simon, Heide Smith,
    Jonas, Pajares Tosca Susana) p22-
    44. (Library e-reading)
    What is a Game?
    Johan Huzinga (1872-1945) Homo Ludens
    (1938) – play as primary formative element of
    human culture
    Roger Caillois (1913-1978)
    Defined play as an activity which is
    • Free (voluntary)
    • Separate (fixed space and time)
    • Uncertain (player innovation and initiative)
    • Unproductive( nothing is created)
    • Governed by rules
    • Make-believe
    Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)

    “Games are popular art, collective social reactions to the main

    drive or action of any culture. Games, like institutions, are

    extensions of social man and of the body politic, as technologies

    are extensions of the animal organism. Both games and

    technologies are counter-irritants or ways of adjusting to the

    stress that occur in any social group...Games are dramatic models

    of our psychological lives providing release of particular tensions.”

    Marshall McLuhan (1964) Understanding Media: The Extensions of

    Man
    Gregory Bateson (1904 -1980)

    British anthropologist, social scientist and


    cyberneticist framed play as
    communication of meaningful fictions.
    Thinking and Talking about
    games

    Williams, Dmitri, Yee, Nick, and Caplan,


    Scott 2008, 'Who plays, how much and
    why? Debunking the stereotypical
    gamer profile', Journal of Computer-
    Mediated Communication vol.13 pp.993-1018.
    Blog TopicS
    • What is a Game? Compare two formal
    definitions.
    • Debunk a common gamer/games
    stereotype.
    • Do males play more than females?
    • What gaming ‘pleasures’ do you enjoy?
    Henry Jenkins

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