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Micro-Seminar: Game Theory & Empathy: How Interactive Media Creates Emotional Connection PART ONE
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Thu, Aug 22, 2024
3 PM – 4:30 PM PDT (GMT-7)
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Part 1: Thursday, August 22, 2024 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm (PST)
Part 2: Friday, August 23, 2024 from 10:00 – 11:30 am (PST)
Game Theory & Empathy: How Interactive Media Creates Emotional Connection is intended to introduce Interactive Media as an empathy machine, and highlight how different creative disciplines and technologies evoke emotions from users. The expected learning outcome is that students can discuss and understand some of the basic core language, philosophy, and design techniques that creators use in games and traditional interactive media.
Day 1 is an introduction to Game Theory with discussions on different games highlighting tactile and traditional computer games. Students will watch short trailers from previous USC Games and commercial games to analyze their structure and discuss what these experiences are doing to evoke emotions in specific ways.
Day 2 is a look at experimental technologies and examining how different mediums must use different languages and mechanics to create storytelling and evoke emotions. It will also be looking at the history of games, new technologies & mediums, and delve into how technology changes, but storytelling stays in an archetypal sense, the same.
The target audience for this course is students who are interested in games, game theory, or storytelling, but who are not majors in Interactive Media & Games and want to learn more about what the department teaches.
Lead By: Professor Andrew Goldstein
Andrew Goldstein is an award-winning game designer, interactive media producer, and teacher. He is the CEO and co-founder of Otherworld Interactive, one of the premier content studios for consumer-facing virtual reality and augmented reality content. Projects with Andrew's involvement have been featured on the BBC, ABC News and at major conferences like Google IO and GDC. Content that he has helped create has been seen by over 100 million users on dozens of consumer platforms during his time in the industry. Andrew teaches numerous courses in the Interactive Media and Games department in the School of Cinematic Arts at USC.
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Fri, Aug 23, 2024
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Private Location (register to display)
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Micro-Seminar: Game Theory & Empathy: How Interactive Media Creates Emotional Connection PART TWO
Micro-Seminars have two parts. Attendance to both parts is required. Registering for the PART ONE session will automatically enroll you in the PART TWO session on Friday.
Part 1: Thursday, August 22, 2024 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm (PST)
Part 2: Friday, August 23, 2024 from 10:00 – 11:30 am (PST)
Game Theory & Empathy: How Interactive Media Creates Emotional Connection is intended to introduce Interactive Media as an empathy machine, and highlight how different creative disciplines and technologies evoke emotions from users. The expected learning outcome is that students can discuss and understand some of the basic core language, philosophy, and design techniques that creators use in games and traditional interactive media.
Day 1 is an introduction to Game Theory with discussions on different games highlighting tactile and traditional computer games. Students will watch short trailers from previous USC Games and commercial games to analyze their structure and discuss what these experiences are doing to evoke emotions in specific ways.
Day 2 is a look at experimental technologies and examining how different mediums must use different languages and mechanics to create storytelling and evoke emotions. It will also be looking at the history of games, new technologies & mediums, and delve into how technology changes, but storytelling stays in an archetypal sense, the same.
The target audience for this course is students who are interested in games, game theory, or storytelling, but who are not majors in Interactive Media & Games and want to learn more about what the department teaches.
Lead By: Professor Andrew Goldstein
Andrew Goldstein is an award-winning game designer, interactive media producer, and teacher. He is the CEO and co-founder of Otherworld Interactive, one of the premier content studios for consumer-facing virtual reality and augmented reality content. Projects with Andrew's involvement have been featured on the BBC, ABC News and at major conferences like Google IO and GDC. Content that he has helped create has been seen by over 100 million users on dozens of consumer platforms during his time in the industry. Andrew teaches numerous courses in the Interactive Media and Games department in the School of Cinematic Arts at USC.