The week just gone was quiet, especially compared to the week before. No late nights, family illness and other shenanigans.
Good news that I’ve had another paper accepted.
On Wednesday I had Phil Gyford down for a talk to the Web Design students. I bumped into Phil last year and I was surprised to find he was a UWE graduate (through Bower Ashton, in the days before it was UWE and still the West of England College of Art) so I invited him down for a talk.
Also marked/watched the first presentations from the Play and Games students. I’ve set them a design exercise to come up with a “serious board game.” Which has resulted in four games about global warming, two about the recession and two about somalian piracy, plus half a dozen other ideas. The multi-stage, gateway approach seems to be working already, these guys are much more engaged in their coursework than the students over the last couple of years.
At the end of the week I also did a spot of project debriefing and lessons learnt for Ed at the end of his transition network mega project. Though overall the problems were very small and it seems like he’s put together a cracking little co-op of dedicated webinistas.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Hi Dan. Are you going to be putting up examples of these Serious Board Games and their rules?
February 23rd, 2010 at 6:54 pm
That’s a good idea. I’ll try and get permission from the students and get them up at the end. However I have found that it is hard to document board games without putting in a lot of work myself. I’ve got a shelf full of Monopoly variations without full rulesets.