update "GAMES STUDIES"

ZOMG IT IS LITERALLY PLAYING GAMES

okie.. i feel like im going to fail Y_Y

extract from subject outline with a little highlighting by moi

Lecture: 2:15pm-3:15pm Wednesdays, Old Arts Theatre C

Screening/other Presentations: 11:00am-1:30pm Wednesdays, LFR, Lower Theatre

Game Studies, Entertainment and Cityscape: an Introduction to the Subject

The course is separated into one 1.5 hour lecture and one 1.5 hour tutorial per week. Lecture times will consist of
a combination of video screening, game playing (in the lecture theatre or in other spaces both on or
off-campus; to be arranged during end-of-lecture consultation with students), and finally, question
and discussion time.

A note to the wary and non-experienced: Students will be given ample access to gaming, including the borrowing of games and the use of PCs and consoles in the Elisabeth Murdoch Resource Centre (Room 113) and the ERC Library. If you have no background in Game Studies, don’t be disheartened -- as a new area of study, it is more than likely that most students will be in the same situation. Likewise, if you’ve had little experience with game play, don’t be discouraged. It will be possible to book a time to use the game playing equipment in the ERC Library or in the Elisabeth Murdoch Library. Here you will either be able to play with the games on your own or with others in the course.

In addition, some screening time will be used for gameplay purposes and lab sessions will be arranged for online gaming and instruction sessions. A list of games available in the School will be available on the LMS – as will the list available in the ERC Library. So make the best of the resources.

week 1 :
Key Games: Call of Duty+, Gran Turismo+, Space Wars, Pong, Donkey Kong

week 2:
KEY GAMES: Tetris, Doom+, Evil Dead games, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi series, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart: Wii, Crysis.
FILM VIEWING: Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, Planet Terror
S C R E E N IN G : E V I L DE AD: A RMY OF DA RKNE S S , S AM R A IMI , 1 9 9 3

week 3
S C R E E N IN G : C A S SHE RN, K A Z U A K I K I R I Y A , 2 0 0 4
KEY GAMES: Tomb Raider +, Lord of the Rings +, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Phantasmagoria, Doom series.

week 4
S C R E E N IN G : T IME CODE , MI K E F I G G I S ( 2 0 0 0 )
KEY GAMES: Max Payne+, Grand Theft Auto+, Final Fantasy+; Sims +, Civilization, Devil May
Cry+, Rez, Singstar , WarioWare: Smooth Moves, Bioshock.

week 5
S C R E E N IN G : R ED V S B LU E A N D MOD E X A M P L E S
KEY GAMES: Halo+, Doom+, Quake+, Duke Nuke’em 3D, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The
Sims, Civilization.

week 6
S C R E E N IN G : S I L EN T HI L L , CH R I S TO P HE G ANS , 2 0 0 6
KEY GAMES: Phantasmagoria; Resident Evil+; House of the Dead+; Silent Hill, Dance, Dance
Revolution, Guitar Hero.
KEY FILMS: Resident Evil+; House of the Dead+; High School Musical 1+2 (sing-a-long versions).

week 7
S C R E E N IN G : T EMPO R ADA DO P ATO S ( DU C K S E A S ON) , F E RNAND OE IMB C K E , 2 0 0 4
KEY GAMES: GTA+, Need for Speed+, The Sims 2, Halo 3, Latest FIFA, Battlefield 2, Medal of
Honour+, Super Mario Galaxy, World in Conflict, Sins of a Solar Empire.

week 8
SCREENING: “MAKE LOVE NOT WARCRAFT”, SOUTHPARK (SEASON 10, EP.147)
KEY GAMES: Final Fantasy XI; EverQuest, Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike, Battlefield 1942, UT 2004,
The Orange Box, Matrix online

week 9
S C R E E N I N G : RE S I D E N T E V I L 3 : E X T I N C T I O N , R U S S E L L MU L C A H Y , 2 0 0 7
KEY GAMES: Duke Nukem, Leisure Suit Larry, Singles: Flirt Up Your Life; The Guy Game, Tomb Raider +, Resident Evil +

week 10
E X CU R S I ON INS T E A D OF S C R E E NING : CROWN CASINO’S GALACTIC CIRCUS
KEY GAMES: Prince of Persia, Devil May Cry, Ico, House of the Dead.

week 11
L A B S E S S ION S I N S T E A D O F S C R E E NING : E A R L Y G AME S
KEY GAMES: Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man, Space Invader, Zork, Myst, Akalabeth, Ultima, Wolfenstein,

week 12
S C R E E N IN G : C LOV E R F I E LD, MA T T R E E V E S , 2 0 0 8 .


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conclusion?

i dont think i picked a bludgy subject *sob*
history of landscape archi ...looks..like a cop out XD