Study Guide

Objective

You learn to analyse video games with different designs, narratives and solutions.
You familiarise yourself with different game mechanics and examine different game genres characterised by their implementation.

Content

How to analyse game through gaming?
How to identify different game mechanics and the gameplay elements that games have?
How to analyse specific segments of the video game?
How to compare video games and their content?
How have storytelling and structural solutions been implemented in games?
How to write an analysis and create presentations of games?

Opiskelumateriaali

Material on Learn

Yksilölliset oppimisväylät

The course mostly online. Contact lessons are on campus when the group has contact days.

If you have a comparable previous academic achievement (i.e., a higher education-level course completion), have studied for a year in, for example, a folk high school, and have work samples to present, or if you have skills equivalent to or exceeding the course level, for example, through work experience and have a portfolio to show, you may seek to have the course accredited. However, you must first discuss this with the course instructor.

TKI ja työelämäyhteistyö

The course might include an assingment given by a game company

Evaluation scale

1-5

Qualifications

Required studies of Basics of game design or equivalent skills in game design, understanding of game genres and terminology of video gaming.