Music and Digital Gameplay

Catalog description

This course considers music and digital games in light of their playability. It aims to provide students with creative and critical frameworks for making sense of the diverse roles played by music in digital games as well as the ways in which playing digital games can be considered a musical activity. Focusing on games across an array of genres, the course introduces students to recent scholarship on digital games while prompting them to develop new modes of engagement with game music as creators and players. A background in music and/or game development is not required: the course?s materials and assignments can be approached in different ways depending on each student?s level of experience. (MUSIC-HC)