Why Am I Doing This?
During my studies at the Entertainment Technology Center, I took a Game Design class from Professor Jesse Schell. The second assignment was called Toolbox. The idea was to list as many games as you could remember playing throughout the course of your life. Here's an except of the assignment text:
The goal of this assignment is to dig up the game design treasures in your own mind, dust them off, and have them ready to use when you need them.
In a table or spreadsheet format, list at least 100 games that you have played sometime in your life. These games may be of any type: board games, computer games, playground games, etc. Along with each game you list, state clearly something important that you remember about the game, or a situation that arose when playing it, that you think might come in handy sometime later in your game design career. Also list the year that you first played the game.
This assignment was really handy at the time, forcing me to look back and remember games I hadn't played in years. Thinking about those games, especially those from earlier in my life, from the perspective of a game designer turned out to be incredibly useful.
As I continue to play games, I want to capture the experiences in a similarly useful manner. I won't be writing full reviews, but just a few thoughts or observations about each game. The blog format may not be ideal, but at least this way, I can share my experience with others.
In general, I will try to follow similar rules (as laid out in my Rules post). I'll be adding games as I play them, but I will also be adding games from the past with the ultimate goal of cataloging every game I've played. Of course, they won't be in chronological order, but I'll try to add a search function to get around that.
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