2 New Courses, but Game Design Course Remains Unchanged

I blogged about this in the past but now it’s really official. I have been informed about my courseload for the coming semester. This is how it looks like:
Introduction to Game Design (1 group)
Media Literacy (1 group)
Theories of Mass Communication (2 groups)
I’m only guessing, but it seems to me like I will have to take care of more than 150 [...]

End of classes!

Today I held my last classes for the semester. I’m very happy in general with how things went in the past few months. It was very productive and now I’m happy that I finally get some rest. On Monday we start with exams. And then I’ll have a nice holiday until the mid of February.
We [...]

Courses in the new semester

I received a call from my department’s course planning committee this morning. The reason for their call was the announcement of the courses I’m going to teach in the coming semester (Spring 2009).
So, what’s in the mix for me?
Well, seems like I’m asked to walk a more “theoretical” path this semester… The only course that remains [...]

My Weekly Schedule Looks Promising!

I was trying hard to create a weekly schedule for myself that would allow me to educate and train myself in skills that are vital when you want to work as a game designer. The initial good news was that most of the courses that I teach myself this semester, are related with game design: [...]

Course Preparations at Full Speed!

The Bairam holiday goes nice so far. I have finished the rough outlines of two of my courses –Communication in History and Persuasive Writing. Not that I teach these for the first time, but I was looking for some change in these courses which I hope would make them more pleasant for both teacher and students. I [...]

New Books!!

I’m so exited! Today I ordered two books: Ian Schreiber and Brenda Brathwaite’s Challenges for Game Designers and Tracy Fullertons Game Design Workshop. Since I’m living in Cyprus, the delivery times are a bit longer than usual (up to one and a half month!), but the books will be here just right at time. They [...]

Game Project Presentations Finished!

Finally the big day came and my game design course students presented their game projects in class. Some were really cool, some still needed some work, but when considered that we had only six weeks during a very very hot summer time, then its really nice what my students put together.
A quick post-mortem
What went right:
Rapid [...]

The Ludosphere: In Turkish?

A few days ago I thought I should also maintain a game blog in turkish. The fact is that there are not many game blogs for turkish-speaking audiences that are interested to learn game design and development. In that regard, I believe a turkish blog with articles on game design would fill a huge gap.
I’m [...]

One step closer to the finals!

The game design summer class will end soon. Next week students will do the presentations of their “finished” games, which will be then followed by a final exam. On August 23 the whole summer school thing will be over.
It’s a mixed feeling: On one hand I’m glad that it is over because I want to have a few weeks only for [...]

An Update on Student Game Projects

Today we entered the second iteration of the ongoing game prototype projects of the students that take my introductory course to game design. It was amazing for me to see the progress that some students made. Within a month they are expected to have finished their work and present some working paper prototypes of their games. At [...]