{"id":1475,"date":"2025-02-20T23:49:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T23:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2025-02-21T00:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T00:04:58","slug":"semester-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/2025\/02\/20\/semester-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Semester 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Game Design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/01\/image-8-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/01\/image-8-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/01\/image-8-300x169.png 300w, 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href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/2024\/12\/28\/bozo-clown\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Bozo \u2013 Clown<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/2024\/12\/28\/finch-fire-performer\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Finch \u2013 Fire Performer<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/2024\/12\/28\/clara-trapeze\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Clara \u2013 Trapeze<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/2024\/12\/28\/edith-knife-thrower\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Edith \u2013 Knife 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href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/2025\/01\/09\/game-pillars\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Game Pillars<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/2024\/12\/04\/story\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Story<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/2024\/12\/04\/gameplay-2\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Gameplay<\/span><\/a><\/li><li data-wp-context=\"{ &quot;submenuOpenedBy&quot;: { &quot;click&quot;: false, &quot;hover&quot;: false, &quot;focus&quot;: false }, &quot;type&quot;: &quot;submenu&quot;, &quot;modal&quot;: null, &quot;previousFocus&quot;: null }\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/navigation\" 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class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this semester, I will be creating a GDD for a game. Here, I have documented everything leading up to the final product, from weekly lectures to sketches and development. In this section of my portfolio, you&#8217;ll see me struggle and persevere as a concept artist, character designer, and a story teller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brief<strong> <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will be making a Games Design Document (GDD) of a digital game. This should be<br>included in your blog (WordPress). You should use WordPress for your documentation and<br>for the submission of your GDD. This is your chance for Blue Sky thinking! Take this<br>opportunity to expand your creative abilities and critical thinking via game making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>You will have weekly sessions that will support each of the sections of your GDD, coupled<br>with tutorials and crits. For each week, you are expected to produce a series of research-<br>informed responses to the themes, justifications for your decisions, experimentations and<br>reflections. These will support the development of your GDD in different phases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game Design \u2726\u2022\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u2022\u2726\u2022\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7\u2022\u2726 In this semester, I will be creating a GDD for a game. Here, I have documented everything leading up to the final product, from weekly lectures to sketches and development. In this section of my portfolio, you&#8217;ll see me struggle and persevere as a concept artist, character designer, and a story teller. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/2025\/02\/20\/semester-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Semester 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pv2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}