DIGI/ENGL 3047: Digital Games: January - April 2014
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Lecture schedule

Jan 6Introduction
Jan 8Pac-Man
Jan 13Juul, “Introduction” (online)
Jan 15Robot Unicorn Attack
Aarseth, “Introduction: Ergodic Literature” (online)
Jan 20Bloons Tower Defense 5
Jan 22Portal
Jan 27Portal 2
Jan 29Portal and Portal 2
Jenkins, “Game Design as Narrative Architecture” (online)
Feb 3Plants vs Zombies
Feb 5Plants vs Zombies
Ferri, “Narrating machines and interactive matrices” (online)
Feb 10Thomas Was Alone
Feb 12Half-term test
Feb 24World of Warcraft
Feb 26World of Warcraft
Mar 3World of Warcraft
Klastrup, “A Poetics of Virtual Worlds” (online)
Mar 5Minecraft
Mar 10Minecraft
Mar 12Minecraft
Frasca, “Simulation versus Narrative” (online)
Mar 17BioShock
Mar 19BioShock
Mar 24BioShock
Simons, “Narrative, Games, and Theory” (online)
Mar 26Spore
Mar 31Spore
Apr 2Half-term test



Marc R. Plamondon, Ph.D. Department of English Studies Nipissing University