780.224 (20W) Issues in Game Studies: Cyberpunk
Überblick
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- Lehrende/r
- LV-Titel englisch Issues in Game Studies: Cyberpunk
- LV-Art Vorlesung-Kurs (prüfungsimmanente LV )
- LV-Modell Onlinelehrveranstaltung
- Semesterstunde/n 2.0
- ECTS-Anrechnungspunkte 4.0
- Anmeldungen 25 (35 max.)
- Organisationseinheit
- Unterrichtssprache Englisch
- LV-Beginn 12.11.2020
- eLearning zum Moodle-Kurs
Zeit und Ort
LV-Beschreibung
Intendierte Lernergebnisse
Critically explore cyberpunk as a concept in artistic reception and production. Read, watch, and play key artworks of the genre and analyse their shared motifs, tropes, and worldbuilding strategies. Supplement your understanding with theoretical texts. Examine how the experience of cyberpunk can be captured in game design. Realise your own contribution to cyberpunk videogames based on your analytical insights.
By the end of the semester, you will be able to identify artworks as belonging to the cyberpunk genre, to critically understand the importance of their main features, and understand in general how to adapt genre markers for your own game design routine.
Lehrmethodik inkl. Einsatz von eLearning-Tools
Important notice: The seminar is going to be held fully online. Detailed instructions on how this class is going to function are going to be provided by your lecturers on Moodle or via e-mail.
Block sessions featuring discussions, student presentations, and shared game lab sessions.
Inhalt/e
The seminar gives students an overview of the most important works of the cyberpunk genre. It focuses on three types of cultural artifact: prose literature, film, and videogame.
A full list of artworks discussed will be provided with a syllabus during the first session.
Literatur
The seminar draws from various artistic and intellectual sources. Shorter texts, mostly in shape of theoretical secondary reading, will be provided on Moodle.
Students are expected to buy or otherwise familiarise themselves with specific artworks relevant for their examination.
Foundational works for the seminar are:
- Bartle, Richard. 2003. Designing Virtual Worlds. San Francisco: New Riders.
- VanderMeer, Jeff. 2018. Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction. London: Abrams & Chronicle Books.
Prüfungsinformationen
Prüfungsmethode/n
The seminar features three central assessments. Students must
- present a film or book
- host a game lab focused on a videogame
- make a research poster and turn it into a prototype game project.
Furthermore, the final grade is shaped by student participation.
Prüfungsinhalt/e
Film or book presentation: Students (either alone or in a group, depending on number of participants) must present a film or book chosen from a canon of cyberpunk artworks. (Worth 20% of the final mark)
Game Lab hosting: Students (either alone or in a group, depending on number of participants) must host a game lab featuring a videogame that is chosen from a canon of cyberpunk artworks. This means that they ought to familiarise themselves with a videogame, then present and play it together with all seminar participants during a seminar session. (Worth 20% of the final mark)
Research poster and prototype game projects: Students ought to collect their understanding of what defines a cyberpunk world on a scientifically founded, self-created poster early in the seminar. At the end of the seminar, the contents of this poster must be turned into a prototype game project. This means that the content of the poster must be adapted into an interactive artwork, allowing players to exert agency with, or influenced by, cyberpunk tropes and topics. Students may work as a group and base their project on one poster or a combination of their posters if proper documentation is provided. The interactive artwork may be analogue or digital. Students of the master’s programme Game Studies and Engineering are advised to conclude the seminar with a digital project. (Worth 50% of the final mark)
Participation. (Worth 10% of the final mark)
Beurteilungskriterien/-maßstäbe
Presentation:
- Content relevance
- Inclusion of research literature
- Selection of quotes or scenes
- Relevance of discussion questions
- Discussion management
Game Lab:
- Content presentation
- Provision of gameplay experience
- Portrayed expertise
- Inclusion of seminar participants
- Relevance of discussion questions
- Discussion management
Poster and Prototype Game Project:
- Outlining critical insights of the seminar (poster)
- Reliance on additional resources (poster)
- Adapting poster content to interactivity
- Demonstrating critical thought in said adaptation process
- Provision of 600-word post mortem (an informal report describing the design work)
Participation:
- Attendance
- Properly announcing/excusing missed attendance
- Contributions to discussions, both in class and online
General remark on our code of conduct and plagiarism policy:
Provide properly cited sources (latest Chicago Manual of Style format) on all your assignments.
Have a look at the departmental policy: (https://www.aau.at/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/anti-plagiarism-declaration_english-department.pdf)
Students caught plagiarising will be removed from class immediately.
Read the Code of Conduct on our departmental homepage (https://www.aau.at/en/english/study/code-ofconduct/). Violation of this code will result in your immediate removal from class.
Beurteilungsschema
Note BenotungsschemaPosition im Curriculum
- Masterstudium Visuelle Kultur
(SKZ: 655, Version: 18W.2)
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Fach: Visuelle Medien zwischen Fakten und Fiktionen
(Wahlfach)
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6.2 Transmediales visuelles Erzählen (
0.0h VC / 6.0 ECTS)
- 780.224 Issues in Game Studies: Cyberpunk (2.0h VC / 6.0 ECTS)
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6.2 Transmediales visuelles Erzählen (
0.0h VC / 6.0 ECTS)
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Fach: Visuelle Medien zwischen Fakten und Fiktionen
(Wahlfach)
- Masterstudium Game Studies and Engineering
(SKZ: 992, Version: 17W.2)
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Fach: Game Studies
(Pflichtfach)
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Issues in Game Studies (
0.0h VC / 4.0 ECTS)
- 780.224 Issues in Game Studies: Cyberpunk (2.0h VC / 4.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 1. Semester empfohlen
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Issues in Game Studies (
0.0h VC / 4.0 ECTS)
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Fach: Game Studies
(Pflichtfach)