It has now been six weeks since I started on my second year of Game design and graphics program. Right now I have two courses Advanced game design and project management, and leadership. In Advanced game design, we have in recent weeks been playing and analyzing two board games and one roleplaying game in order to identify the systems that make the game work and the components are affected by them.

The games we played were:

–        Settlers of catan a board game about gathering resources and building roads, villages and cities.

–        Anima: Shadow of omega a card game dungeon crawler type game, where exploration was a large part of the game.

–        The roleplaying game we played was Fiasco. The game had an interesting scene system that made the game feel like a movie and that each player was a character.

It’s been fun to play and analyze board games especially as I haven’t played many board games before. Now we are going to start making our own board games as the next part of the course.

I’ve been using knowledge for both courses as I’m always trying to find ways to utilize information I receive in another way as it helps me remember. An example of this from a recent lecture from the project management, and leadership course one of the topics was about communication through clothing, what do the cloths say about a person?

That got me thinking about clothing as a form of nonverbal communication. Clothes can tell where a person comes from, social standards, personality, faith, and how credibility. It is one of the first impressions we as people get out of each other. I was thinking how it could be used for character design as another way to clarify a character’s personality.  It is something I wish to look into more once my next set of courses start in few weeks.

I think both courses going are very interesting and would love to spend as much time as possible on the two, however, it feels like I spread my time too thin and it seems starts to appear on my school work. Since both courses are very project and group work heavy so it feels like I don’t want to disappoint any of the groups by prioritize one over the other. Then not doing something about it isn’t helping either of the courses I’m in.  The solution think is to either prioritize one course more over the other or look over my schedule and try use my time to its fullest.