1. GameCamp! by ModLab Josef Nguyen and Amanda Phillips, facilitators Genre Bending

2. About ModLab Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities and Game Studies Research Laboratory ~30 faculty, graduate, and undergraduate researchers from across campus IFHA Cluster in Gamification and the Digital Humanities, Mellon Research Initiative in Digital Cultures, IMMERSe Video Games Research Network, Davis Humanities Institute

3. About GameCamp! Year-long workshop series culminating in a month-long game jam in May. Open to everyone – bring your non-programmer, non-gamer friends! General game design principles + tech skills http://ucdavisgamecamp.wordpress.com

4. Josef Nguyen: Ph.D. Candidate in English. Email: jddnguyen@ucdavis.edujddnguyen@ucdavis.edu Website: http://www.josefnguyen.nethttp://www.josefnguyen.net Amanda Phillips: IMMERSe Postdoctoral Fellow in ModLab. Email: aphill@ucdavis.edu Twitter: @NazcaTheMadaphill@ucdavis.edu Website: http://gamertrouble.wordpress.comhttp://gamertrouble.wordpress.com About Your Facilitators

5. http://www.igda.org http://youtube.com/nascentgames International Game Developers Association Gabriel Gutierrez

6. Logo Contest Winner!

7. Shunxu Huang

8. Safe Community Building

9. Genre Bending: Let’s Cross Some Conventions

11. DEFINING GENRES

12. RPG Defining the Role-Playing Game

13. Dungeons and Dragons

14. Final Fantasy Series

15. Character Stats

16. Jam-Friendly Genres? PlatformerShooterPuzzle Adventure Relationship Simulator Multiplayer

17. Platformer Emphasizes moving and navigating through 2D/3D space, often discretized Key Mechanics: running, jumping, flying, swimming… Obstacles: environmental hazards, hostile enemies, time Technical Features: physics simulation, real-time gameplay, level design

18. Pitfall! and Flappy Bird

19. Shooter Emphasizes achieving objectives with projectiles (guns, arrows, camera flash) Key Mechanics: aiming, timing (reflexes), shooting, reloading, health Obstacles: line-of-sight, hostile enemies, resource management Technical Features: physics simulation, POV of camera, location-based damage and scoring

20. Duck Hunt and Pokemon Snap

21. Puzzle Emphasizes mental challenges based on logical reasoning, memory, spatial navigation… Likeliest genre to be abstract; may lack narrative content Key Mechanics: pattern recognition, sequencing, interpretation Obstacles: incomplete information and/or resources Technical features: varies by nature of puzzle challenge

22. Bejeweled and Portal

23. Adventure Emphasizes goal-oriented exploration; quest narrative, often in a continuous space Key Mechanics: item collection, (recursive) exploration, problem solving, resource management Obstacles: puzzles, locked doors and chests, hostile enemies Technical Features: inventory management, game sequencing, mapping

24. Metroid and Myst

25. Relationship Simulator Emphasize branching conversations and other exchanges with individuals; focus on satisfying, matching, and grouping individuals and their needs Key mechanics: decision-making, producing and interpreting affects Obstacles: miscommunication, timing, puzzle solving Technical features: branching narrative, conversation trees, inventory, character modeling and simulation

26. Animal Crossing and Phoenix Wright

27. Multiplayer Emphasizes interaction with other humans (either competitively or cooperatively) Key Features: comparative metrics, specific interactions among players Obstacles: the game, other players Technical features: multi-user input and output

28. Street Fighter and Mind Fuck

29. Instructions The goal of this workshop is to generate game ideas quickly based on randomly generated genres and thematics Your group should have: 2 six-sided dice (d6) 1 twenty-sided dice (d20) A dice decoding sheet 6 genre cheat sheets

30. More Instructions Your group will play through multiple short rounds A group member will roll the 2d6 and 1d20 Match the 2d6 to their genres* Match the 1d20 to its theme In a few minutes, brainstorm a game that mashes up both genres and addresses the theme in some way Feel free to interpret the theme broadly Make notes, draw, sketch, scribble as needed…