Intermediate Studio: Game Studio

Catalog description

Intermediate Game Studio is a studio-based course that treats games as expressive, experimental, and critical media. Students explore game design through hands-on production, critique, and conceptual inquiry. Emphasis is placed on broad design concerns—systems, interaction, rules, play, narrative, space, and affect—alongside core theoretical perspectives from game studies, art practice, and media theory. Through rapid prototyping and iterative development, students test ideas, embrace uncertainty, and reflect on how formal design choices shape meaning and player experience. Collaboration and critical dialogue are central to the course, supporting the development of a personal design sensibility grounded in both practice and theory. By the end of the semester, students will have developed a series of experimental playable works and a deeper capacity to articulate games as cultural and artistic artifacts.