CREATIVE CULTURAL INDUSTRIES AND GAME DEVELOPMENT

İLF300

Course Code: İLF300
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 5

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Bachelor's Degree

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Assistant Professor Naz Almaç

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Apply the fundamentals of game design by developing tabletop and card game prototypes through various stages, including flowcharts, game mechanics, and playtesting.
Analyze games from a player psychology perspective, demonstrating an understanding of cognitive concepts such as immersion and motivation in relation to player experience.
Design and present socially impactful game ideas that align with the principles of Serious Games and Games for Change, culminating in a structured game design document and prototype.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Description

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of game design through tabletop and card games. By applied assignments, students progress through stages of idea development, rule and mechanic design, prototyping, and playtesting. Framed by Serious Games and Games for Change, the course explores how games function as tools for social transformation in education, health, social awareness, and cultural preservation. Students design socially impactful game concepts and present them in the form of a game design document and a prototype.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Introduction to the course, QA
2^nd Week	Creative Cultural Industries and Game Definitions
3^rd Week	Gaming History and Culture: From Analog to Digital
4^th Week	Player Psychology and Fundamentals of Game Design
5^th Week	Narrative and Mechanics of Games
6^th Week	Game Design Document I
7^th Week	Game Design Document II
8^th Week	Independent Game Designer Guest: Review of Game Design Documents
9^th Week	Formal Elements of Games
10^th Week	Dramatic Elements of Games
11^th Week	System Dynamics of Games
12^th Week	Game Concept Presentation
13^th Week	Prototype Development: First Iteration
14^th Week	Prototype Development: Second Iteration

Recommended or Required Reading

Aarseth, E. J. (1997). Cybertext: Perspectives on ergodic literature. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Avedon, E. M. (1971). The structural elements of games. In E. M. Avedon & B. Sutton-Smith (Eds.), The study of games (pp. 419?426). John Wiley & Sons.
Binark, M., & Bayraktutan-Sütcü, G. (2008). Kültür endüstrisi ürünü olarak dijital oyun (Vol. 13). Kalkedon.
Caillois, R. (1957). Unity of play: Diversity of games. Diogenes, 5(19), 92?121.
Costikyan, G. (2005). I have no words & I must design. In K. Salen & E. Zimmerman (Eds.), The game design reader: A rules of play anthology (pp. 192?196). MIT Press.
Fullerton, T. (2004). Game design workshop: A playcentric approach to creating innovative games. CMP Books.
Huizinga, J. (1995). Homo ludens: Oyunun toplumsal işlevi üzerine bir deneme (M. A. Kılıçbay, Çev.). Ayrıntı Yayınları.
Hunicke, R., LeBlanc, M., & Zubek, R. (2004). MDA: A formal approach to game design and game research. In Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Challenges in Game AI (Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 1?5). AAAI Press.
Metin, A. (1974). Oyun ve bügü: Türk kültüründe oyun kavramı. İş Bankası Yayınları.
Salen, K., & Zimmerman, E. (2003). Rules of play: Game design fundamentals. MIT Press.
Sezen, T. İ. (2011). Dijital oyunları anlamak: Oyun, anlatı, yazılım ve platform perspektiflerinden dijital oyunlar. In G. T. Ünal & U. Batı (Eds.), Dijital oyunlar: Kendi dünyanda yaşa bizimkinde oyna (pp. 119?148). Kalkedon Yayınları.
Sicart, M. (2008). Defining game mechanics. Game Studies, 8(2). https://gamestudies.org/0802/articles/sicart
Ünal, M. Ş. (2020). Yeni nesil kutu oyunları ve Eurogame'in Türkiye macerası. In Türkiye'de ve Türkiye'den oyun çalışmaları (İlk Bölüm). Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık.
Walk, W., Görlich, D., & Barrett, M. (2017). Design, dynamics, experience (DDE): An advancement of the MDA framework for game design. In C. Fernandez-Vara & C. Totten (Eds.), Game dynamics: Best practices in procedural and dynamic game content generation (pp. 27?45). Springer.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Project
Practice
Problem Solving
Discussion

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	20
Assignment	4	20
Practice	1	15
Other	1	15
Total(%)		70
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		70
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		30
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam	1	2	2
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	1	10	10
Preparation for Final exam	1	30	30
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam	1	14	14
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	3	3
Homework	4	7	28
Project	1	21	21
Total Work Load			150
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			5
ECTS Credit of the Course			5

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

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