Course detail

Studio III - Game Media - summer

FaVU-B3MU-LAcad. year: 2022/2023

The course draws on a broader understanding of game design and leads students to experimental attitudes and realizations towards any subjectively chosen topic. It analyses the boundary between physical and digital play across established art practices and contextually used media such as 'spatial installation'. Moving into the physical space, it raises the topic of board, escape or card games and their potential role in the institutional environment of an art college, or a gallery or festival setting.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

15

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

MgA. Vojtěch Vaněk

Department

Game Media Studio (AHM)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students are able to work with the media of digital games or its physical parallel in a wider context.

Prerequisites

Experience with the realization of the Creative Visual Novel, Orientation in Anime + Participatory Culture.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Students are led to realize individual or collective exercises and tasks. They continuously improve their technical and theoretical knowledge in the field. They are actively discussing and presenting their work results in the atelier field. In complementary activities, he participates in thematic exhibitions, excursions, festivals and lectures.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

To award the credit, it is necessary to submit partial studio assignments and collective or individual semester work. Subsequently, before the committee, he / she defends the results of the semester examination.

Course curriculum

The boundary between physical and digital games
Escape games
Card and board games
Play as a space installation
Digital games in the environment of institutions
"Why is there a game when it's not needed?"

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Students experiment with the framework of digital games at the highest possible level and extend this framework into physical space.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Presentation and submission of semestral studio works and exercises. Consultation, participation in teaching and studios is obligatory.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

CyberArts", Ars Electronica Edition (EN)
Jesse Schnell, The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (EN)

Recommended reading

Juul Jesper-Half-Real Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds 2011 (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUB Bachelor's

    branch VU-IDT , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

MgA. Tomáš Hrůza
MgA. Vojtěch Vaněk

Syllabus

Přednášku vede vedoucí ateliéru podle potřeb aktuální výuky.

Seminar

156 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

MgA. Vojtěch Vaněk

Syllabus

Výuka probíhá podle pokynů vedoucího ateliéru a v souladu s individuálními tvůrčími kvalitami studentů.