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  • Performing design: game design, practice, praxis and the theatre of the impressed

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    aka j.turner, truna
    Moyes, Gordon
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    Moyes, Gordon D.
    Year published
    2013
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    This paper is a reflection on a design teaching project that endeavours to establish a culture of critical design thinking in a tertiary game design course. In the first instance, the ?performing design? project arose as a response to contemporary issues and tensions in the Australian games industry and game design education; in essence, the problem of how to scaffold undergraduate students from their entry point as ?players? (the impressed) into becoming designers. The performing design project therefore started as a small-scale intervention to inspire reflection in a wider debate that includes: the potential evolution of ...
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    This paper is a reflection on a design teaching project that endeavours to establish a culture of critical design thinking in a tertiary game design course. In the first instance, the ?performing design? project arose as a response to contemporary issues and tensions in the Australian games industry and game design education; in essence, the problem of how to scaffold undergraduate students from their entry point as ?players? (the impressed) into becoming designers. The performing design project therefore started as a small-scale intervention to inspire reflection in a wider debate that includes: the potential evolution of the contemporary games industry; the purpose of game design education; and the positioning of game design as a design discipline. Our position is that designing interactive playful works or games is victim of a tendency to simplify the discipline and view it from either the perspective of science or art. In this paper we look at some of the historical discussions on the distinct identity of games. Then we present an overview of the typical state of play in contemporary game design education which inspires the performing design project as an intervention or teaching technique. This leads us to question understandings of education and training and creativity and innovation. Finally we reflect on insights arising from the performing design project which lead us to support Archer?s call for a ?third area? that balances the monolithic practices of the two major academic disciplines.
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    Journal Title
    Journal. creative technologies
    Volume
    2013
    Issue
    3
    Publisher URI
    http://colab.aut.ac.nz/journal/performing-design-game-design-practice-praxis-and-the-theatre-of-the-impressed/
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2013. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 New Zealand (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 NZ) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
    Subject
    Computer Gaming and Animation
    Film, Television and Digital Media
    Visual Arts and Crafts
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/50946
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