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<EM><STRONG>Students will leave understanding the nuances that make creating games for children challenging as well as satisfying.</STRONG></EM><BR><BR><HR><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium;"><STRONG><BR><BR>Class Description</STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.84000015258789px;">Kids love all games but not all games are for kids. A special design sense and some extra steps are required when creating the perfect youth-oriented title. Well review everything you need to know to embark on the incredibly rewarding experience of design for kids, with an emphasis on starting your project and playtesting.</DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.84000015258789px;"><HR><BR><BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium;"><STRONG>Featured Topics</STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.84000015258789px;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 15.8400001525879px;">- The definition of games for kids <BR> - Games are games, right? <BR>- Er The definition of kids (were not talking about baby goats). <BR> - A much more difficult question than most people think! <BR>- Games for kids are important. <BR> - Presumably thats why youre here. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.84000015258789px;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 15.8400001525879px;"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: underline;">How to Begin</SPAN> <BR>- Audience<BR>- Goals & Desired Outcomes <BR>- Observation & Research <BR>- Understanding Context (and notes about limitations) </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.84000015258789px;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 15.8400001525879px;"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: underline;">Playtime</SPAN> <BR>- Finding Players <BR>- What to Test <BR>- Small Choices Matter <BR>- How often is often enough? </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.84000015258789px;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 15.8400001525879px;"><STRONG><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium;">About the Instructor</SPAN><BR><BR></STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.84000015258789px;"><STRONG>Pete Vigeant</STRONG> is a game, media and experience designer that creates large group live-action and digital interactive experiences. He is the Senior Game and Platform Designer at ESC, a new 30-player local video gaming platform, for which he led the design of 9 games. Previously as a Senior Designer for ESI Design, Pete Vigeant drew upon his passion and expertise in game and youth-focused design to lead and develop interaction, media, concept, and game design for numerous ESI projects such as the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate. Pete helped create the ESI Game Lab where he has made and launched a series of immersive live-action group experiences to promote collaboration through play, spectacle, and narrative gameplay. He has introduced ESI Game Lab experiences such as Super Bacon Grab 2, the Greatest Bacon Game Ever Played: The Return of the Bacon, Field Frogger, The 100 Games Everyone Should Play, and Field TD in public spaces, city wide festivals, and conferences around the country and the world. Pete is a founding partner of The Completely Surrounded, a consulting group that has worked with camps, colleges and institutions to bring live action games and training to thousands of participants.<BR><BR><BR><HR><BR>
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