Transformational Game Design Studio

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Are you interested in making games that change how players think, feel, and behave? This class will give you the chance to get hands-on with transformational games for real-world clients who have real-world problems. If you want to spend your semester making awesome games and understanding how players experience them, then this is the class for you. As game designers, you must be prepared to work with an iterative design process, to take the time to play-test, and to re-work ideas that just aren’t fun. If you hope to make transformational games, you must also take the time to learn about your players and to understand how they experience your game on their own terms. Hopefully you think all these things are also fun! This course counts as a design studio requirement for the HCII doctoral program.