IMED 315 - Tabletop Game Design Studio

(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: IMED 245 or permission of instructor
Description: This course is a studio course meant for the student who is interested in becoming game designers and/or developers within the tabletop game industry or are curious about how to design tabletop games instead of video games. The student will design, build, playtest, and self-publish a tabletop game (board game, card game, or dice game). Most classes involve minimal instruction and will instead focus on hands on research and development guided by project milestones, one on one guidance between teacher and student, and group critiques/discussions about each student’s game. Activities will include guided and development sessions, internal and external playtest sessions, trips to local game conferences, and guest lectures. By the end of the course, each student will have their very own self-published tabletop game prototype. There is a cost for the purchase of the published prototype. Offered Fall, annually.