Hero Machine and Google Sketchup

Hero Machine - make your own hero

Google Sketchup use this to download 3D objects for use in your game design documents

Games Certificate Program Information

http://www.ccsf.edu/Departments?multimedia_Studies/conc_08.htm

Play Donkey Kong online

Play the game here

Types of Sound Effects for Sound workshop

Sound Effects:

Using Audacity and sounds from Freesound, create sound effects for your game which
do the following:

Contextual sound/Narrative sound
Focusing attention
Defining space
Establishing place
Creating environment
Emphasizing/Intensifying action
Setting pace
Symbolizing meaning
Unifying transitions

The Freesound Project

Freesound

The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter.



USE FREESOUND IN COLLABORATION WITH AUDACITY TO TRY OUT SOUNDS FOR YOUR GAME DESIGNS

Audacity Tutorial - parts 1 & 2

Download Audacity from here (at home - its already on CCSF computers!)

Audacity Tutorial Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrPGMjZORCM&feature=related

Audacity Tutorial Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6txQRfptawE&feature=related

in-class exercise today

Using the chessboard and the types of pieces and moves available in chess, devise a cooperative game of some kind for two people, in which they must work together to achieve a victory condition (You do not need to use the starting conditions of chess, nor all the pieces). Document the rules and the victory condition.