Game analysis (5 cr)
Code: GD00CU08-3013
General information
- Enrollment
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04.11.2024 - 17.11.2024
Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
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01.01.2025 - 30.04.2025
Implementation is running.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 1 cr
- Virtual portion
- 4 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Blended learning
- Unit
- Department of Culture
- Campus
- Kouvola Campus
- Teaching languages
- English
- Seats
- 20 - 22
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Game Design
Realization has 6 reservations. Total duration of reservations is 16 h 0 min.
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Fri 17.01.2025 time 12:30 - 16:00 (3 h 30 min) |
Game analysis GD00CU08-3013 |
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Tietokoneluokka (26+1)
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Fri 07.02.2025 time 12:30 - 15:00 (2 h 30 min) |
Game analysis GD00CU08-3013 |
MS10
Tietokoneluokka (26+1)
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Fri 21.02.2025 time 12:30 - 16:00 (3 h 30 min) |
Game analysis GD00CU08-3013 |
MS10
Tietokoneluokka (26+1)
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Thu 13.03.2025 time 10:00 - 11:30 (1 h 30 min) |
Game analysis GD00CU08-3013 |
MS10
Tietokoneluokka (26+1)
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Fri 14.03.2025 time 10:00 - 11:30 (1 h 30 min) |
Game analysis GD00CU08-3013 |
MS10
Tietokoneluokka (26+1)
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Fri 25.04.2025 time 12:30 - 16:00 (3 h 30 min) |
Game analysis GD00CU08-3013 |
MS10
Tietokoneluokka (26+1)
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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?
Course material
Material on Learn
Study forms and methods
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.
RDI and work-related cooperation
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.