Session 3 (9.23) - entertainmenttechnology/Berkoy-MTEC3501-Fall2024 GitHub Wiki

Due before our next class on MONDAY, 9/30

Note that our next class in in person.

Continue to organize

  • At the top of each week, make a plan for the week ahead using your calendar system.
  • Continue to assess your calendar system and time management strategies and how well they are working for you. Keep what is working. Try something new (or try the same technique in a different way) for what is not working.

Researching 3 Ideas

  • Return to the 3 potential ideas you submitted for the session 2 assignment. Review your brainstorming notes, sketches, and summaries for each idea. Continue to add to these notes and sketches as additional thoughts and questions pop up.

  • Preliminary precedent research: For each idea, begin to research other projects out in the world that overlap with your own idea in some way. Look for projects with technical, conceptual, and/or aesthetic overlaps. For example, if your idea is a body-controlled game on the theme of climate change, you might research other body-controlled games, different types of sensors and systems related to body-controlled interaction, existing games related to climate change, etc. Identify at least 3 precedent projects that relate to EACH idea (for 9 precedent examples in total).

  • Submit three PDFs to me via Discord, one for each of the three ideas, with the following included in each separate PDF:

    • Idea number and a preliminary name for your idea (this can be generic, like "Idea #1: Body-controlled Game about Climate Change". We just want a way of identifying each idea for now.)
    • A brief summary of your idea in a few sentences (you can take this directly from the session 2 assignment).
    • 3 precedent projects, including the following:
      • Name of the precedent project and creator(s) of the project.
      • URL weblink or other citation for the project.
      • Documentation of the project- through images, audio, and/or video. Choose documentation that most clearly represents the project you are referencing.
      • A brief description of the precedent project, in 1-3 sentences.
      • A brief description of how this precedent relates to your project idea AND how this precedent differs from your idea.

  • Submit each PDF to me via Discord. Name each file "Session3_[yourName]Precedents[idea #]". (For example, "Session3_AllisonB_Precedents_Idea2")