Schedule


Week Date Assignment
1 8/25 First day of class. Introductions and Barnga.
2 8/30 Sign up for your domain and install and configure WordPress.
9/1 Bogost HTDTWV “Media Microecology” (1-8).

Also, create subdomain for this class, install and configure WordPress.

9/2 First sidequest due: Create an Avatar
3 9/6 Play through Gone Home to completion.

9/8 Richard Bell, “Family History: Source Analysis in Gone Home.”

Begin to discuss podcast assignment.

4 9/13 Dear Esther.

Begin discussion of “Unpacking Manuel’s” assignment.

9/15 Podcast and Manuel’s workshop day.
5 9/20 Firewatch

Bogost HTDTWV “Art.”

9/22 Workshop time on Unpacking Manuel’s
6 9/25

(Sunday!)

Peer review on Manuel’s Tavern Due
9/27 Firewatch Day 2

Bogost HTDTWV “Art” (redux) & “Empathy”

9/29 Freshman Year
9/30 Podcast episodes 1 & 2 due
7 10/4 The Stanley Parable
10/6 The Beginner’s Guide
10/7 Podcast episodes 3 & 4 due
8 10/11 No Class: Fall Break

10/13 Kentucky Route Zero: Act One

10/14 Podcast episodes 5 & 6 due
9 10/18 Kentucky Route Zero: Act Two
10/20 dys4ia & Depression Quest
10/21 Podcast episodes 7 & 8 due
10 10/25 Wolf in White Van. Part One: Chapters 1-7 (pp. 1-75)
10/27 Wolf in White Van. Part One: Chapters 8-10 (pp. 76-109)
10/28 Podcast episodes 9 & 10 due
11 11/1 Wolf in White Van Part Two: Chapters 11-14 (pp. 113-64)
11/3 Wolf in White Van Part One: Chapters 15-16 (pp. 165-207)
11/4 Podcast episodes 11 & 12 due
12 11/8 Fiasco rules. Finish up Wolf in White Van discussions.
11/10 No class: Fiasco gameplay
11/11 Podcast episodes 13 & 14 due
13 11/15 Fiasco discussion
11/17 Atari games with Stella: Pacman and Donkey Kong
11/18 Podcast episodes 15 & 16 due
14 11/22 Kentucky Route Zero Act 3
11/24 No Class: Thanksgiving
15 11/29 Final portfolio assignment
12/1 Zork: The Great Underground Empire
16 12/6 Last day of class
12/9

3 – 5:30p

Our scheduled final exam period

This schedule is subject to change.